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So Diz likes to help. Today she's helping me sort my bead storage, which has become quite the mess. My current storage situation consists of everything you see here, plus a few more of those separated containers you see in the front, all stuffed into a clear plastic shoe box.

Lots of little baggies. That's how they sell everything to you, in little mini baggies. I'll just be saving them for other uses now, because they just don't make for tidy bead storage, no matter what you do.

I just hate situations where you have to dump out the entire container to find the one type of bead or finding you're looking for. So, no more of that business.

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I get a little neurotic about stuff like this though. I like colors to be in order. I like sizes to be in order. I like things to be separated by material, too. Sometimes, it gets a bit wearing. Especially when things are a mess. Really, it comes down of ease of working for me. If things are a mess, I spend more time fussing with materials than creating pretty things.

That's what makes this type of organizational system so nice for me. A few different sizes, so I can cater to bead and finding types and sizes. Each lid opens individually so I can dump out a container at a time to work with. None of them are absolutely huge, and if I need to bring them anywhere they fit nicely in plastic shoe boxes.

I also separated all my wire and other stringing materials into the box at the right... maybe if I'm only digging through the wire when I need it, as opposed to when I dig through everything, it won't become undone or tangled so often.

All this provides a nice clean look in my office too, which makes finding things and keeping them tidy so much easier.