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TracyFD
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Posted: Jan 22 2007 at 8:45pm \| IP Logged

The little crates that clementines come in seem to useful to throw away. I'm using a couple on my laundry room shelves to hold smaller bottles and essential oils. Any other useful ideas for these little crates?

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Posted: Jan 22 2007 at 8:57pm \| IP Logged

I have thought the same thing!

We've used a few in the school room amongst other places but no great crafty ideas. One holds my 2yo's socks.

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Posted: Jan 22 2007 at 9:18pm \| IP Logged

I use them in my kitchen cupboards. I have one for boxes of tea, one for medicine bottles, one for small baking items, such as food coloring, bottles of vanilla, baking spices, etc. Another use that I don't have one for yet is for all those packets such as taco mix, soup mix, etc.

They fit perfectly! You could even stack them if you had limited space.

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Posted: Jan 22 2007 at 9:22pm \| IP Logged

I have a little rubbermaid container for my spice mixes (those little packets).

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Posted: Jan 22 2007 at 11:33pm \| IP Logged

I think Alice mentioned using them as a manger for (a child's doll) Baby Jesus. I actually intended to use our clementine box for that, but the material I had planned to use to line it was swiped by my husband when I wasn't paying attention. He used the material as a runner on the bookshelf top where he placed some seasonal tchotchkes when we were decorating for Christmas. He had no idea I had just purchased the material remnant specifically for the cute manger idea. Not wanting to insult his clever decorating, I let it be.

I used the empty clementine box anyway for a short stack of Christmas books. It was rustic looking, but easily fixed with thick ribbon tied around to cover the writing on the box.

They are good for storing a small group of books facing forward on a bookshelf to show off most of the first book's front cover. Then the books can be easily flipped through looking at the colorful covers instead of boring spines.

I have since collected a few more and you have given me some good ideas to put them to use. Keep them coming.. Thanks!

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