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Check out these very affordable solutions to your storage needs.
BY NICHOLE L. TORRES

Antique Black Wing Lid Storage Baskets
Home Depot
www.homedepot.com

If you want an antique look for your modern storage problems, consider this set of three black wing storage baskets. Made of natural fibers, each basket has a wing-opening lid to store items in all rooms of your home. From magazines in the living room to toys in the family room or papers in your kitchen nook, the three sizes will fit all of your stuff and blend nicely into the corner. Now your guests needn’t know about those cheesy tabloid magazines you read.
The set of three is $49.99

Stor-It-All Trunk
The Container Store
www.containerstore.com

If you have a whopping 42 pounds worth of stuff to store, check out this wheeled behemoth. Constructed with a reinforced lid and bottom, it can haul up to 225 pounds of all of your crap (by that we mean your most precious items you cannot bear to let go). Making a nice addition to your garage or shed, the wheels make it ideal to store your camping or boating goods as well. Measuring 39.5 by 19.75 inches, it's a decent size, but we know you’ll fill it up in no time.
$39.99

Faux Leather Lidded Storage Boxes
Bed Bath & Beyond
www.bedbathandbeyond.com

Try this fashionable way to store your stuff—these faux leather boxes come in three different sizes for your multiple storage needs. The wee box would be perfect to organize all those tiny little things that clutter up the coffee table. The medium box could make a great place to store pictures or mail and the largest box will fit almost anything you don’t want lying around in plain site. Show not only how clean and organized you are, but with the faux leather, know you’re not harming a single living thing with your style.
$29.99 for the large; $19.99 for the medium; $9.99 for the small.

Quilted Hard Cube Ottoman
Linens-n-Things
www.lnt.com

This multi-functional addition to your living space provides not only extra storage, but a handy extra seat or comfortable place to put your feet up after that long day of cleaning. Available in both forest or natural color, it’s made of quilted fabric with two side pockets and one zippered pocket to store anything you want to keep at your fingertips. Catalogs, books—it could even be a funky way to keep all 800 of your remote controls within reach. Then again, you'd have to find them first.
$24.99

Storage Chest
Stacks and Stacks
www.stacksandstacks.com

You may not have that 300 bucks to buy an heirloom cedar chest just yet, but you can get the look and function of a wooden chest affordably right now. Constructed of MDF wood, it’s available in both white or maple laminated finish. A neat way to store those guest sheets or even your children’s toys, it measures 19.16 inches high by 31.75 inches wide by 15.63 inches deep. Clean-up in a hurry and shove everything out of sight in this lovely piece—your mother-in-law will never know you did it five minutes before she arrived.
$69.99

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