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The organising problem no one plans for

Small item storage, room by room.

Every home has a version of this: small, dry things with nowhere proper to live, scattered across four or five drawers. A sealed pudding pot with a lid on solves most of it. Here's where they actually end up, room by room.

Pick a room

The same lid, five different drawers.

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Hallway

Spare keys, loose change and the odd drawing pin, sorted by the front door instead of loose in a bowl.
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Home office / desk

Paperclips, drawing pins and the small stuff that migrates to the bottom of every desk drawer.
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Toolbox / utility drawer

Screws, wall plugs and picture hooks from every flat-pack you've ever built, finally in one place.
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Dressing table

Jewellery and earrings, sorted and visible instead of tangled together in a tray.
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Craft corner

Buttons, beads and sewing bits, sealed so they don't end up back in one big tangle between projects.
Why this, not a plastic box

It's already the right size.

You don't need a trip to a storage shop: the small glass dessert pots from Gü, Pots & Co., Aldi and M&S are already the right size for most of this, sitting empty in a cupboard right now. A proper airtight lid is the only thing missing.

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