Even as a child, I was fascinated with storage devices, they appealed to my OCD need to 'organize'. I thought the Old School way of screwing the lids of discarded glass baby food jars to the bottom of a shelf, was ingenious, providing a multi-pronged solution where the stored pieces were visible, off the work surface, and could be toted to the work site and returned, safely stored until needed again. This led to all manner or similar containers; cottage cheese, pudding cups, metal Band-Aid packs with snap lids, breath mint boxes like Altoids, etc... I've used the ones like you've shown, Sajeev, but they're a little clumsy when loaded, so I stick to lightweight stuff like electrical connectors for those. I worked for a Shop Consummables company as a younger man, KAR Products, who utilized a fantastic selection of sectioned bins and covered trays which slipped into roller racks as removable drawers. When we would outfit a new account, we would remove and replace the exact same storage equipment from the previous supplier. When told to just 'discard', I thought, 'hell no'. I asked if I could take it home, and he said 'Sure', and thus began a very industrial, yet elegant solution to my Home Shop Storage Dilemma. I was able to amass a fair collection of various dimensions, and am now the envy of my Fellow Gearheads... "They're Out There..."
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