During the fall and winter months, many of us have a larger stockpile of canned goods on hand. Depending on your pantry, cabinets or storage space, they aren't always easy to arrange for easy access. This simple storage idea helps you group similar cans together and find them with ease. Can you guess what it's made from?
This canned goods storage system was created using an empty soda pop cardboard box. It was covered in nice paper and labeled. It makes open racking storage a bit easier on the eyes and in-cabinet storage simpler to find what you need.
One of the hardest problems with canned goods is being able to see what you have. This gets especially tricky when you only have one or two cans of something and spend 20 minutes digging for the right one. This method would allow you to store vegetables together or soups and so forth so. Even if you have to pick from just a few cans, your task will come along much faster.
Sure you can buy retail products that do this, but at this price (which could even be free if your household or a friends/relatives is a soda drinker), it' a great "do something with nothing trick."
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I love this idea! We don't drink soda- can anyone think of an alternative box source?
I just purchased a package of 8 cans of S&W Tomatoes at Costco and it was packaged just like this. Also, a little sturdier than a soda can box.
Before it was common to find the soda in these sorts of containers one could buy a plastic container that mimicked this style.
My issue is that i never have that many of the same thing to justify having this.
Cut up a shoe box, esp kids' sizes? then you could also remove the top to check how many you had left or for more intensive rummaging. I like that this approach keeps things grabbable but contained. Might be hard to find a box quite so perfectly the right size as these are tho.
1/2 gal milk carton?
What a good idea!
That's so awesome, as maybe I could stack them which would solve the "how do I stack two cans that don't nest well" problem. Except the bottom box would become crushed under the top one. hmm...
Also I don't think I have that many similar canned food items to fit in one box. Well it sounded good while it lasted, lol.
why didn't anyone thing of this before! I love this idea!! we have such limited space this is awesome! so going to try this.