I just bought a new pair of shoes, and Teri asked me if she could have the shoe box. She loves to use shoe boxes to store things other than shoes. She uses them to stuff receipts in (her own little filing system.) She uses them to store craft supplies. She uses them in dresser drawers as dividers to keep clothes sorted and separate; the stocking/sock drawer to keep the sock types and colors organized. In fact every drawer in every dresser in the has shoe boxes in it, the larger shoe boxes help keep T-shirts from getting too dishevelled. She keeps toiletries in shoe boxes, too, so that when we’re in the bathroom and looking for something we can just pull out one shoebox from the cupboard and look through that.

I think shoe boxes are just about the world’s greatest organizers!