Check out this crafty idea to store small items! Over at the Instructables site, member Randofo created this shelving system he made recycling regular 2 gallon drinking water jugs...
He explains "...Around here I have more odds and ends than I know what to do with. I used to keep it in piles strewn about our tiny apartment until my fed up girlfriend came up with a solution to make the room a little more organized. It basically involved drinking a lot of bottled water and using the jugs the water came in to store stuff. Using her method, not only do you get a $2 rugged modular plastic storage bin, but you also get 2 gallons worth of drinkable water for free..." Check out how he did it and more pictures over at the Instructables site.
[ image from Randofo at Instructables ]
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Comments (18)
That's fine for the basement but.......
It's a great idea on reusable items.
However, there are so many little things in the "bins", it looks a bit unorganized, messy. I think it'd look neater if it's a shelf with lots of tiny storage, and with some doors to hide things.
But for a small budget, this is great. Plus, you're saving the world!
This looks sloppy and unorganized. I would not want anyone to see this in my home.
no
Perhaps in a basement workshop . .
ahhh clutter.. *hives*
uh..not my bag.
great in theory, but...i'd suggest throwing out your odds and ends. or at least sorting through them, so you don't have 200 water containers sloppily stacked.
even i have to call this ridiculous and messy
i think it looks totally cool, but how is it 'recycling regular two gallon drinking water jugs' if he went out and bought the jugs new with intent to do this? Also I hate the idea if its an excuse to drink a ton of bottled water, since, bottled water is really terrible many ways environmentally.
Mmmm... Not so much. It's a very ghetto look.
Maybe just in the garage?
Does anyone really drink that much water that comes in plastic? That grosses me out more than anything else. But this could be a great solution for a kids' clubhouse, or a community service project.
Tacky.
Not my cup of tea, but it would work in a basement or a garage workshop.
Surely we're intelligent enough to express an opinion without using classist, pejorative terms such as ghetto.
You hardly ever hear, "Mmmm... Not so much. It's a very trailer trash look"
Yeah... uh, no.
Ugh.
Considering that it is plastic containers, it looks pretty good.
One place I lived had an algae problem in the water. So they added extra chlorine. So the water tasted like algae AND chlorine. It almost had a texture.
I'll drink bottled water over that crap anytime.
I personally preferred my house that had spring water. I drank a lot of water there. Had to sell though.
I like it. Especially if you don't actually drink bottle water... you just get the jugs from your friends/coworkers, etc.
Kudos to you!