Here are some clever ideas to store food around your house:

1. Build shelves and have a curtain in front of them.

2. Put items in boxes and stack them under beds, cribs and tables.

3. Put a bed up on cinder blocks and store cases underneath the bed.

4. Decorate or put tablecloth cover over large barrels or trashcans- use as a lamp table.

5. Use 5 gallon cans instead of bricks for a bookshelf. (Paint or cover cans with contact paper)

6. Put wheat, rice or beans in a bean bag chair, pillow stuffed toys, etc.

7. Add extra shelves in bedroom closets.

8. Make a root cellar for potatoes, carrots, apples, cabbage.

9. Make a decorative shadow box filled with dried fruits, vegetables, beans, split peas, etc. or even make a "bottle" lamp.

10. Hang onions, peppers, garlic, corn, etc.

11. Store in attics, or under stairwell.

12. Store behind shelves or book cases.

Suggestions from our readers:

I know a family who store some of their food storage in the living room. The containers are metal trash cans with oversized round table tops on them. They were completely concealed by beautiful round tablecloths. I have always remembered this and now I would like to try it in my bedroom using 2 drawer filing cabinets for bedside tables.
Melissa, Winston-Salem, NC

Anyone who lives in a trailer, as we do, knows that you have no storage space. What we do to store items we do not use such as holiday or seasonal items, namely clothes, is to put everything in Rubbermaid containers and stick them under the trailer. Between the Rubbermaid containers and the trailer skirting your things are protected from weather as well as mice.
Amanda

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