Discover Home Uses for Square Plastic Containers

They might be square, but there is no one “cookie cutter” mold for these plastic containers. Because you can find them in a wide variety of sizes and styles – with additional accessories to boot! – these containers are perfect for various kinds of home uses. Square Plastic Containers: Kitchen UsesSquare plastic containers are great for storing and displaying everything from freshly baked cookies to after dinner mints. You can also use them to organize extras like toothpicks, drinking straws and coffee stir sticks, napkins, hand wipes, and packets of condiments or sugar and sweetener for your tea or coffee.If you choose to use these containers for food storage and display purposes, make sure you choose acrylic food-grade containers. You’ll need containers that will keep your food items fresh and safe from debris. Your best bet is to look for containers that come with lids either hinged or attached in some way or lids you can screw or snap on. Having containers with handles or handgrips is also helpful.Square Plastic Containers: Bathroom UsesSquare plastic containers are especially helpful in bathroom and dressing room areas. You can use them to store and display hygiene-related items such as:

• Cotton balls and Q-Tips
• Makeup sponges and cotton pads
• Bandages and antibiotic ointment
• Extra travel- or trial-sized bottles or packets of shampoos and conditioners, lotions, mouthwashes, and toothpastes
• Rolls of dental floss and extra toothbrushes

Square Plastic Containers: Children’s UsesThese containers are excellent ways to keep your children’s toys and other items organized and easily accessible. For example, you can use the containers to hold small toys like building blocks, bouncy balls, and figurines organized and out of the floor. You could organize your child’s craft items like crayons, markers, colored pencils, stencils, and stickers in these containers, and if your child is old enough to be in school you can use the containers to help organize items like pens, pencils, rulers, highlighters, calculators, and erasers. Square Plastic Containers: Office UsesIf you have a home office, these containers are great ways to store and organize:

• Office tools such as tacks, paperclips, staples, extra ink cartridges for your computer printer, scissors, rubber bands, and writing utensils.
• Important paperwork and documents such as bills, contracts, financial records, medical documents, and receipts. 

Remember, these containers come in many sizes – you can find sizes perfect for the top of your desk as well as sizes ideal for shelf use.Square Plastic Containers: Garage, Basement, and Attic UsesMany people use their garages, basements, and attics as places of storage, and some folks also use them for “workshop” areas. Because these areas tend to be out of the public eye, we sometimes neglect them – and, sometimes this neglect means they need all the extra help they can get in terms of organization!Consider using these containers to store and organize:

• Extra extension cords
• Nails, screws, nuts, and bolts
• Craft items like buttons, beads, and sewing needles and spools of thread
• Small holiday decorations