Bare feet in the shop… O_o Call CPS! 
You both appear to be using the same containers. What are they?
Edit: I think I found it.
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Yes, Harbor Freight ones. They used to be like $6.99 plus a coupon to make them cheaper. It was annoying only being able to buy one or two at a time, but I didn’t pay $10 each.
Maybe look around for something less money or a better coupon.
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I bought some of these before. Same thing, but $10 for a 2-pack
I never actually put anything in them though. I find these things to be too much of a space waster for me. Most of the bins end up 1/4 or less full.
So I started printing Gridfinity storage boxes instead, similar to what Jamie posted above. That way the things I want to store are more efficiently organized
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Cant hide money 
I kid I kid…
Packout stuff is real nice! I have a little bit of it. But it requires me to actually put things away to use it, so not real useful around here
For me, it was an old Ikea Tea Trolley that inspired me - it was free, but every part was recut.
Then I was given a number of el-cheapo drawers in damaged metal cabinets.
I figure if I need more storage for hardware, it’s time to start getting rid of some.
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Getting rid of stuff is by far the best way to organize things. Much easier when you don’t have the stuff to begin with.
I have a similar cabinet to yours I made. It is nice to have some hardware for some tasks. But the hardware isle in Home Depot would not fit in my garage and I couldn’t afford it anyway. Plus, there is one within a half mile of me.
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My problem is I forget where I put stuff so the essential thing is having labels everywhere 
I’m 15 miles to the closest hardware store. What I’ve done is standardized on a few common bolt/screw sizes and I keep those on hand. A majority of my projects use 1/4-20 bolts with threaded inserts or rivnuts.
How am I supposed to tell him to put shoes on when I’m standing barefoot right next to him? That’s also the cleanest that floor has ever been.
We do require shoes in most of the shop now that I have a mill throwing metal shavings around the room.
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Sounds like me, except there’s a boat ride in there too.
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Stackable containers can be neat (or misused?) for creating additional temporary surface areas to dump place tools/materials for specific tasks you don’t have dedicated space for, e.g temporary electronics bench.
You guys are killing me. I just went out and organized my sockets…I’m catching a case of the OCD. I NEED to organize!!!
Even worse is now I know what sockets I am missing and I want to invite the neighbors over to see if they have spares of the ones I need.
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Those look neat to me. CNC’d and partially printed gridfinity compatible containers would be great way to demo value of having access to both tools ( 1 + 1 = 3).
If still printing gridfinity containers using Jamie’s gridfinity scripts, and you might CNC base plates/containers, then, consider modding base corners to be 1/8" radius so 1/4" bit can be used to quickly CNC pocket the base plates/panels. Shared pull request… Enable base plates to be CNC'd with 1/4" bits by modding bottom most corner radius to 3.175mm (Rough POC edits for feedback...) by aaronse · Pull Request #42 · vector76/gridfinity_openscad · GitHub
Just FYI if anyone wants it… these are the links I had saved
This is the main storage case listing
I haven’t tried this, but here is a lighter base that uses less plastic
Here’s the link to the little bins for the inside
And here’s some label listings I had saved also
Misc related listings:
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Sorry @jamiek for polluting your “Not Gridfinity” with Gridfinity… 
Your box does look much lighter to print with the same benefits for anyone that isn’t looking to have removable gridfinity compatible bins in their storage.
I’ll probably check it out for some of my uses as well
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Yeah, thongs are a bare minimum, although I can never figure out how hot solder knows how to avoid the strap and land exactly between the toes.
I thought I’d outsmart it one day and wore crocs, but the stuff just went right through one of the holes exactly on a line between two toes. sigh.
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In the 35 years my family had a machine shop and a metal fab shop, I never came across any of the guys wearing (only) thongs, thankfully. Most of them wore coveralls or shop coats. 
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