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Store-M’s Matryoshka Nesting Storage Boxes - $24.95
Are you looking for a fun way to pack your favorite after Thanksgiving snack? You need the Store-M’s Matryoshka Nesting Storage Boxes from the NeatoShop. This great set of 3 storage boxes will help keep your food air-tight and fresh.
Be sure to check out the NeatoShop for more fun Kitchen Stuff.
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Mummy Jewelry Box – $10.95
This is not your Mummy’s Jewelry Box. No, wait! It is your Mummy Jewelry Box.
With this amazing trinket box from the NeatoShop you can keep your prized possessions under wraps.
Be sure to check out all the fantastic Money Banks & Storage items available at the NeatoShop.
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What could be interesting about the business of renting storage units? The fact that they are used for so many other things besides storage! Renting a storage unit is cheaper than renting office space, retail space, a gym, or a home, so people make do.
The only other person here is Jai Rodgers, front man for the band Breath of Fire, and he’s about to make some serious noise.
Rodgers has the obligatory boyish face and long hair of a lead singer, which he hastily pushes out of his eyes as struggles to plug in his microphone. His band only has 45 minutes to practice before showtime and Jai is ready to get warmed up.
This corrugated metal box is the band’s first real practice spot. “We were paying $35 for two hours at a studio in Kailua. This place is a lot cheaper and we don’t have to make an appointment. Plus, we wanted to be able to store stuff after gigs at, like, 3 a.m.,” says Rodgers.
Honolulu Magazine has many other stories of people getting creative with rented storage units. Link -via Metafilter
I know you Neatoramanauts are a smart bunch, so many of you probably have piles of books lying around your house. If you’re looking for some new bookshelves and bookcases to put all of those great books away, here are some of the coolest book shelving systems that money can buy.
With a little clever placement of elastic, Instructables user fungus amungus was able to create this simple, but seriously eye-catching inverted bookshelf.
If you have a lot of books, you may have wished your home came with a set of bookcases built into the walls, but I’m willing to guess you never conceived of using your staircase to hold all of your novels. Architect Tim Sloan did though, and the result is perhaps one of the most functional staircases I’ve ever seen.
I don’t know about you guys, but I’m always running out of space in my bookcases, which is why I simply love this expanding Twin Bookshelf by Zeynep Cinisli. Essentially, you get two sets of cupboard shelves and when those fill up, you can just pull them apart for even more shelf space.
Like the Twins, REK by Reiner de Jong is brilliant in that it can be consolidated or expanded as needed. As a bonus, the detailed linework in the design makes it look cool room no mater how extended it happens to be at any given time.
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If you’re lucky, you’ve probably got a nice walk in closet to store your stuff. Well, Barbra Streisand got one better:
"Instead of just storing my things in the basement, I can make a street of shops and display them," Streisand says.
See the photo gallery over at Harper’s Bazaar: Link (Photo: "My Passion for Design"/Viking) – via News of the Weird
This picture shows one of four methods for storing and organizing cats documented at The Daily Tail. Link -via Everlasting Blort
Pandora’s Box Secret Storage – $23.95
Yes, in Greek mythology, Pandora’s box is actually a large jar that unleashed terrible things on mankind. But that didn’t stop us from liking this Pandora’s Box, a secret storage shaped like a large leather bound book.
The Pandora’s box Secret Storage has black felt interior, with magnets to keep the case closed. It will surely keep your personal things secret, hiding in plain sight on your bookshelf. Just don’t store any "ills, toils, and sickness," like the original Pandora’s box, mmkay?
From the Neatorama Shop: Link | See also: Das Kapital Money Bank
This ain’t your father’s backyard shed – take a look at Storage Barn, a workshop and storage facility designed by Elizabeth Gray and Alan Organschi of the firm Gray and Organschi Architecture. The spatial arrangement of the storage area around the outside of the building gives it a fascinating texture:
The building serves as a dimensionally economical and energy efficient storage rack for heavy materials, in which tightly packed and palletized stone and wood are stored in a flexible external shelving system that allows access to any pallet in any position on the rack without disturbing others around it.
Link – via Dinosaurs and Robots
There are two very exciting recent advances in nanotechnology may soon result in a massive increase in memory capacities of your DVDs and iPods:
Researchers
at the Centre for Micro-Photonics at the Swinburne University of Technology
in Victoria, Australia, created a new material that could lead to new
discs that can store 10,000 times more data than your average DVDs.
(Image: Zettl Research Group, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and
University of California at Berkeley)
Baba Akcja’s Sophia Lamp (“2in1 – Lamp and Storage”) is a new way of storing earrings. The perforated lampshade lets you hang your earrings and decorate the lamp into a one-of-a-kind art project!
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