Scrapbook.com Stack-n-Sort Trays Sale

I have the small ones & really like using them on my desk for organizing die cut pieces, sentiments, ephemera, etc as I'm working on projects.

I got a few at Target a long while back. I like them.

That's a great deal! I bought something similar from Spellbinders and they work great. I especially like the large tray. The small tray works great for keeping all the intricate dies together.

It's great for keeping card pieces together when you haven't quite finished the card.

I think the trays will also be great for online events too.

This was one of my ways of organizing my ephemera too.  They also sell lids in the bathroom section that stack well too. They were $1 each.

I absolutely love them. They've made sorting through different ephemera packs while keeping things tidy. Highly recommend.

Yeah, this. I never use mine as intended because of this. It’s not even for a project, it’s just random pieces that got left out when putting them away.🤦🏻‍♀️

I totally get the environmental concerns, joblackford. Durable, reusable plastic certainly beats disposable so-called recyclable, but other materials are even better (although I suspect more of them have hidden plastic elements than we realize). Sometimes the functionality is just so superior though!

I have all kinds of crazy containers for storing little homeless bits and bobs that aren't actually part of a project. But at least it lets the project trays be project trays.

The functionality, durability and reusability is where it’s at for me. I have various favorite products in white and clear plastic that I use over and over again throughout my entire house. But so far they’ve lasted forever and owning them has stopped the need to buy other items that don’t work as well or for nearly as many uses. When I no longer need them for one use they are quickly put to use elsewhere. And since I use the same products throughout the house they stack neatly with each other. 

Whereas items I’ve purchased made of any sort of cardboard, fabric, metal, woven basket material have had to be replaced for one reason or another. They get dirty and can’t be cleaned well, aren’t as sturdy, never last anywhere close to as long, and while I owned them weren’t nearly as functional. At this point, the way so much of the items we send for recycling aren’t really being recycled anyway, or if they are often come with an impact to our air quality, I feel like it’s 6 of one, half-dozen of the other. 

They literally sold out of the big/small combo package last night while I was going through my wishlist trying to decide what else to order! I wound up just getting the large ones. I'm convinced that I just need to find the right storage/organization method and I'll magically turn into someone who regularly scraps and gets projects finished.

When I first started using larger packs of ephemera, I bought the clear, crystal trays at Dollar Tree. They didn't have the edges of the trays I have now, but they held a ton and I could stack them- sort of.

Then I got the 12 x 12 clear trays from Target that easily fit in the Michaels cubes with slots. I could make dividers and have 6 different sets of ephemera in them. I just keep changing my style when I find a better way for me.

Sold out as of last night. Oh well. Next time or maybe checking Dollar Tree and Daiso for alternatives.

This is partly why I keep looking at them and considering buying them. I'm not always against plastic - sometimes it really is the best option! Especially if it really works perfectly for what you need and can be used and reused in different ways for many years. And like Shakti said, some things are plastic and we don't realize it, and some things cause more damage in other ways we don't realize too - water use, transportation weight, habitat loss... sigh...

I have a war in my brain over these kinds of things, trying to figure out if my desire to buy is about aesthetics or functional use or if I just imagine life will magically be easier if I have a full set of matching bins and trays... if only! 

Can someone link to the Target ones please?

I am right there with you! And I’ve been pretty bummed realizing that some of the work we’ve been doing to lessen our environmental impact hasn’t even been occurring, or possibly comes with different environmental impacts. I really wish there was definitive information out there for best practices. I feel like I don’t know enough to know what I don’t know, if that makes sense.

So for now we do the best we can, and that includes lots of research and consideration before buying most things, buying things that can be multi-functional, and lots of reuse where we can. LOTS of reuse. I’ve found a favorite brand (The Container Store) of clear plastic boxes that last forever and stack well with each other. We’ve been using these in various sizes for maybe 30 years, exclusively for 15 or so. They were more expensive so at first we’d also get different brands, but these last so much longer because they don’t get brittle like the others seemed to. DH has broken a couple, because they were the huge ones packed full and he dropped them just perfectly on their corners in the garage. And IIRC one of those times only the lid broke so we still have the base in circulation.

For clear bins I really like Interdesign (iDesign) and we use those all over as well. Like I said, I try to stick with the same brands where possible because I find they fit better together. But occasionally a different one will fit specific needs perfectly so I’ll grab one of those after working it over in my head. These trays might fall under that category, I’m going to use what I have in a similar manner to see if they might be just what the doctor ordered and if so, pay attention to sales!