The extremely inadequate storage in this apartment is driving me nuts

[cimorene]

We've got a bunch of those big clear storage bins and every time I'm getting ready to go to Ikea or the hardware store I carefully make a list of how many I think I need, then add one or two more to it, and every time within a week or so I find two more bins' worth of stuff with nowhere to go. The library is in danger of developing a wall of stacked bins in addition to the wall of built-in cabinets and the bins on top of the bookcase.

Are storage bins habit-forming, or is this one of those iron laws of the universe, like always forgetting one thing that you meant to put on the shopping list?

Comments

[flamebyrd]

Every couple of weeks my spouse will say "I need to go to OfficeWorks for more plastic bins", so I'm definitely starting to think it's habit-forming... (But they're so handy!)

[kay_mulan]

Have you read the IKEA maker's biography?

I do not now remember who wrote it, but the maker is Swedish with German roots.

[msilverstar]

Yep, I get you. We're 4 people in a 2.5 person-sized house. There's a Container Store near my work, I think I will go over this week because we are out of storage bins, yet again