Do you have this organizer?
#11
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Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: Corpus Christi, Tx.
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I had one of these and took it back. I got a couple utility carts with shelves about same height and put couple other containers that hold more. I like anything on wheels since I like a quick clean up and can shove them under my tables and under my 401 with the desk cabinet. If you have enough closet space they can slide right in and out of sight. I only paid about $10.00 for each. I've had my carts for about 8 years now. I have also used them for extra ironing space when the little niece comes over.
#13
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Lebanon Missouri
Posts: 2,668
The 2 people that I know that had one weren't really satisfied with it. When I saw them, both were leaning and the drawers weren't going in & out successfully. Now, was it the fault of the unit or a problem with understanding how to put it together? I'd make sure I could bring it back if you don't like it, or design a cross bar on the back to stabilize it, or something like that.
#14
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Crossville, TN
Posts: 1,078
I have 5 of these & I use them all the time for a small business that I have. I have been using the same ones for about 10 years and the only problems I have has is the drawers coming off track but I can deal with that.
#17
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Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: Pearland, TX
Posts: 406
We found one at Sam's a few years back and bought for our daughter's fourth grade classroom. She used it for classroom supplies: thumbtacks, staples, paper clips, pencils, pens, Ziploc bags, extra notebook paper, etc. The drawers were the perfect size for her. I remember we paid right at $25.00 for it. It did collapse after a couple of years, but we found them again [at Sam's] and got another one. We figure that amount every two years is certainly not bad. Her present one has lost its back wheels, but she put a couple of old textbooks under the frame and it still works. I guess if it can withstand fourth graders, it could handle just about anything, right? Ha! Ha!
I wish I had the room to get a couple of them for my sewing room, but my collection of "stuff" just won't permit it.
I wish I had the room to get a couple of them for my sewing room, but my collection of "stuff" just won't permit it.
#18
I have 2 of them and paid about $40. each. I found them not to be very sturdy. Most of my threads were too tall and too heavy when the drawer was full, When I placed anything with much weight in it the drawers slipped off the tract. The good thing about them is the wheels, easy to move around.
#19
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Houston, TX
Posts: 7,312
I have 4 of them, all from JoAnn's and love them. I numbered each drawer and as I put "stuff" in them, listed the items alphabetically with its # drawer in a notebook which I called, "The Notebook That Tells Me Where Everything Is". I have since expanded the notebook to include things I stash in weird places and things in the garage chests with drawers. It is so nice to look in the notebook and find exactly where something is.
#20
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Desert Southwest
Posts: 1,314
I don't own it. I have considered it several times but something keeps me from getting it. I think it's the fact that you can't see what's in the drawers. They are nice and colorful yes, but that's a lot of drawers to open and close looking for something you're sure put there. Even with labels, which would help for sure, unless you are especially disciplined and put only what's on the label in the drawer, you'll be opening and closing like crazy! Good luck.
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