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Storage boxes
I've finally convinced Mike to take the plunge and rip out the thirty-year-old repurposed kitchen cupboards in our back store room, which are in incredibly inefficient use of the space in such a small room, and replace them with open shelves, where hopefully we can store even more stuff in a much more organised way.
As part of that, and spurred on by the small, nibbled-looking hole I found in the bottom of a bag of bird peanuts yesterday, I want to get the vast quantities of bird food out of plastic bags and into something that's tidier, more meece-proof and easier to take small amounts out of without it spilling on the floor.
I was doing an Ikea order for shelves anyway, and I though that the stackable SORTERA Waste sorting bin with lid would be ideal, but annoyingly they're a Marketplace items, so not available to buy online. Our nearest Ikea is all the way over in Civilisation, on the other side of the Thames, and it's really not worth a drive up there to buy four boxes unless we also need a Costco trip, which we don't.
Has anyone seen anything similar to these elsewhere?
I had a look at Really Useful, but they only seem to have the ones where the whole, vertical front comes out, which would lead to an amusing but ultimately irritating avalanche of bird seed.
(Speaking of meeces, I've been very productive over the last few days in the barn: sightings have been increasing, and we went in the other day to find the box of treats surrounded by little black blobs (lid is now firmly on the box), and Jodie's been increasingly interested in one particular corner of the barn, which she couldn't get to very well and which, ominously, contained the sacks of GB's food. I pulled everything out, and found that the bottom sack had been torn open and half the contents spread on the floor under the pallet. It's now all been swept up, and I'll keep an eye on it, but I'm wondering if we need to start using the metal feed bin left from when TWWOTV was here. I've not been doing as it's in the tack room (which was built around it: it won't come out), and thus less convenient, but we might have to. As I was sweeping, also found lots of little piles of bits of wood, next to small holes in the bottom of the barn sides: they've obviously been working away at making ways in, as they were in places that I swept before we moved the horses here. Not sure what the solution to that is, possibly creosote in the summer when the barn's mostly empty of hay.)
As part of that, and spurred on by the small, nibbled-looking hole I found in the bottom of a bag of bird peanuts yesterday, I want to get the vast quantities of bird food out of plastic bags and into something that's tidier, more meece-proof and easier to take small amounts out of without it spilling on the floor.
I was doing an Ikea order for shelves anyway, and I though that the stackable SORTERA Waste sorting bin with lid would be ideal, but annoyingly they're a Marketplace items, so not available to buy online. Our nearest Ikea is all the way over in Civilisation, on the other side of the Thames, and it's really not worth a drive up there to buy four boxes unless we also need a Costco trip, which we don't.
Has anyone seen anything similar to these elsewhere?
I had a look at Really Useful, but they only seem to have the ones where the whole, vertical front comes out, which would lead to an amusing but ultimately irritating avalanche of bird seed.
(Speaking of meeces, I've been very productive over the last few days in the barn: sightings have been increasing, and we went in the other day to find the box of treats surrounded by little black blobs (lid is now firmly on the box), and Jodie's been increasingly interested in one particular corner of the barn, which she couldn't get to very well and which, ominously, contained the sacks of GB's food. I pulled everything out, and found that the bottom sack had been torn open and half the contents spread on the floor under the pallet. It's now all been swept up, and I'll keep an eye on it, but I'm wondering if we need to start using the metal feed bin left from when TWWOTV was here. I've not been doing as it's in the tack room (which was built around it: it won't come out), and thus less convenient, but we might have to. As I was sweeping, also found lots of little piles of bits of wood, next to small holes in the bottom of the barn sides: they've obviously been working away at making ways in, as they were in places that I swept before we moved the horses here. Not sure what the solution to that is, possibly creosote in the summer when the barn's mostly empty of hay.)
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Have a look at B&Q and other DIY stores for similar boxes - alternatively, there is an Ikea in Croydon as well.
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Ikea Croydon is probably further away and certainly a less easy drive, unfortunately.