What!? You want to store
and sort your parts stash? Such optimism.
I just put whatever part(s) I have recently acquired in whatever is convenient to store them... empty 35mm film canisters, empty diabetic blood-sugar test-strip canisters, Mason jars, Tupperware containers, cardboard boxes (including cigar boxes), empty prescription-medicine containers, etc. I never have figured out how to sort them conveniently, but it's often more fun just looking for a part because all sorts of interesting (but forgotten) stuff will usually appear instead of what I am looking for. So, I might be looking for that single 1970s-era SCR in a high-current hockey-puck package and instead find a real gem, akin to an uncut natural diamond, but most likely really just a hockey puck, or maybe some other undistinguished hunk of hard rubber somehow mixed in with the electronic stuff... like the ovoid, hard rubber thingy that was used to grab paper from the feed tray of my discarded laser printer. This pops up ever so often, wrapped in some sort of rubber-preserving paper and packed inside an unlabeled cardboard box. Of course I have to open the box to see what is inside, but I can't bring myself to throw away the now-useless part that is (still) inside.
Perhaps the best, most organized, shop I have ever seen belongs to Moderator
@(*steve*) :
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Please note the TBO (to-be-organized) space beneath the work bench.