| Remember when plastic containers meant | | | | reasonable order in shrinking chaos. Furniture |
| "kitschy nonsense for cartoon housewives"? | | | | designed to store books, CDs, DVDs, even |
| Well, they don't anymore. Plastic containers have | | | | clothes, just can't cut it at the smaller end of the |
| become emblematic of the modern world and its | | | | modern household scale. Anyone who's ever |
| need for style, speed, versatility and durability. | | | | tried to put a wardrobe in a single-room flat |
| We want things that can perform a multiplicity of | | | | knows that modern furniture is far too big for a |
| tasks according to the whim or need of the | | | | lot of current domestic spaces – which makes |
| moment – and plastic containers fulfil that | | | | plastic containers the only viable option. |
| desire in spades. | | | | |
| | | | | Fortunately, companies that make plastic |
| Plastic containers' first and largest benefit is their | | | | containers have cottoned onto this quick. A |
| indestructibility. A person can put pretty much | | | | person can buy some simple but actually quite |
| anything into plastic containers – and, in turn, | | | | attractive plastic containers for not very much |
| put those plastic containers pretty much | | | | money – plastic containers that are designed |
| anywhere – and be sure that the objects | | | | to perform as many of a multitude of purposes |
| inside will be protected from the environment | | | | as their new owners' desire. Plastic containers |
| outside. Plastic containers are also cheap to | | | | with lids; plastic containers that stack one inside |
| make, which makes them cheap to buy. Cheap | | | | the other; plastic containers that lock together to |
| stuff that actually lasts, and does the job it was | | | | form bigger units; and so on. There are plastic |
| designed to do, is such a rarity in this world of | | | | containers for every conceivable use in every |
| throwaway rubbish that plastic containers deserve | | | | conceivable room in any kind of house a person |
| some kind of hero status just for bucking the | | | | can imagine. |
| trend. | | | | |
| | | | | Plastic containers can be slung under beds and |
| Plastic containers offer outstanding storage | | | | sofas, stacked in utility rooms and even kept in |
| solutions in today's increasingly hectic households | | | | the car boot to facilitate easy carriage of |
| – even the smallest bedsit, in our world of | | | | shopping bags from driveway to door. They can |
| Stuff, has a storage requirement that would be | | | | store stuff in lofts and sheds. And that's only |
| way outside the comprehension of people even | | | | the domestic applications. Plastic containers can |
| only 20 years ago. With more people living in | | | | turn the smallest and most awkward of |
| more places, British humanity is trying to fit more | | | | warehouses into a well-used space, simply by |
| things into ever-decreasing areas: and plastic | | | | creating their own, orderly spaces within it. |
| containers are the only realistic way of achieving | | | | |