Super Cheap Small Parts Storage

Step 4 Variations

Cardboard will fail if it gets wet, you may want to use thin plywood, or the plastic version of cardboard if you think the units will get wet . These are harder to get for free. Rather than stack the units you can make a frame of ¾ inch wood with groves cut to slide a unit in like a drawer. This makes it easier to get to any unit without disturbing the others. I did not do this, so no picture. If the units are in 2 stacks you take off one stack and add to the other to get to the desired unit.

Cat food cans are not the only cans you can use, but beware of deeper containers, to get parts out you need to reach in with your fingers. If the container is narrow and deep you can not get your fingers down there. Picking the unit up and turning it over is not usually the best way to find a part as you dump out all the cans.

I layered out the containers for close packing, you may want a more rectangular arrangement. This leave more space between the containers for parts to get lost in. The space could be filled up with some paper mache to prevent this.