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storage for matchbox cars?

EmmieBEmmieB member
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we have 7 out right now, but husband's ENTIRE collection is in (I wish i were kidding) individual snack-size ziploc bags in a big plastic tub in our garage. Eventually, the vast majority will be in my house.

What can I say? My kid LOVES cars.

anyway - i don't want to have them in a bin where they just get tossed in, and I'm not a fan of the wheel case...I'm thinking maybe a curio box similar to this one?

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what do you use?

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Re: storage for matchbox cars?

  • futrkingsleyfutrkingsley member

    We have a series of open shelves for display/storage of toys plus a series of clear bins for small toy collections.  Getting DS to put toys back on the shelves is challenging enough for larger items, I can't imagine him putting 15 tiny cars (or trains) back in a shelving system like that after each time he wants to play with them.  :(

    The clear bins seem to work decently well for small toys.  He has about 5 bins.  One for hockey guys, one for cars/trucks/things that go, one for blocks, etc.  His trains grew out of the bins and are not sort of contained in 4 different cubbies.  Everything else of moderate size is either stores in sight on low/moderate shelves or is out of sight and mind in his closet.

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  • everydayeveeverydayeve
    I don't have this issue yet, but plan on using magnetic knife holders. See my "For the Boy" board on Pinterest for an example.
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  • ashleyhuneyashleyhuney member

    imageeverydayeve:
    I don't have this issue yet, but plan on using magnetic knife holders. See my "For the Boy" board on Pinterest for an example.

    Ack, love this idea, we have MB cars EVERYWHERE!  Where would you find magnetic knife holders on the cheap...hmm....

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    imageeverydayeve:
    I don't have this issue yet, but plan on using magnetic knife holders. See my "For the Boy" board on Pinterest for an example.

    love it.

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    imageeverydayeve:
    I don't have this issue yet, but plan on using magnetic knife holders. See my "For the Boy" board on Pinterest for an example.

    love it.

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  • everydayeveeverydayeve
    imageashleyhuney:

    imageeverydayeve:
    I don't have this issue yet, but plan on using magnetic knife holders. See my "For the Boy" board on Pinterest for an example.

    Ack, love this idea, we have MB cars EVERYWHERE!  Where would you find magnetic knife holders on the cheap...hmm....

    IKEA? They have everything, right?

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  • ashleyhuneyashleyhuney member

    Answered my own question and found them at Ikea for $2.49, https://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/10177183

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    Now I'm trying to think of a fun way to mount these... in a shadow box?  Funky frame?  Ideas? :)

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    imageeverydayeve:
    imageashleyhuney:

    imageeverydayeve:
    I don't have this issue yet, but plan on using magnetic knife holders. See my "For the Boy" board on Pinterest for an example.

    Ack, love this idea, we have MB cars EVERYWHERE!  Where would you find magnetic knife holders on the cheap...hmm....

    IKEA? They have everything, right?

    lol, yup, see my post that I was writing when you answered!

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  • everydayeveeverydayeve
    imageashleyhuney:
    imageeverydayeve:
    imageashleyhuney:

    imageeverydayeve:
    I don't have this issue yet, but plan on using magnetic knife holders. See my "For the Boy" board on Pinterest for an example.

    Ack, love this idea, we have MB cars EVERYWHERE!  Where would you find magnetic knife holders on the cheap...hmm....

    IKEA? They have everything, right?

    lol, yup, see my post that I was writing when you answered!

    Great minds...or maybe it's just something about Ashleys. Smile

    I was thinking it would be fun to paint a racetrack on the wall and mount the black holders on the road area. Although, thinking about it a little more, I foresee lots of scratches, I mean tire tracks, all over the wall that way.

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  • ashleyhuneyashleyhuney member
    imageeverydayeve:
    imageashleyhuney:
    imageeverydayeve:
    imageashleyhuney:

    imageeverydayeve:
    I don't have this issue yet, but plan on using magnetic knife holders. See my "For the Boy" board on Pinterest for an example.

    Ack, love this idea, we have MB cars EVERYWHERE!  Where would you find magnetic knife holders on the cheap...hmm....

    IKEA? They have everything, right?

    lol, yup, see my post that I was writing when you answered!

    Great minds...or maybe it's just something about Ashleys. Smile

    I was thinking it would be fun to paint a racetrack on the wall and mount the black holders on the road area. Although, thinking about it a little more, I foresee lots of scratches, I mean tire tracks, all over the wall that way.

    That's a fun idea!  My brother had a race track on his wall when he was a kid :)  Maybe make the track out of something sturdier than just paint...not quite sure what though...

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  • EmmieBEmmieB member
    imageashleyhuney:
    imageeverydayeve:
    imageashleyhuney:
    imageeverydayeve:
    imageashleyhuney:

    imageeverydayeve:
    I don't have this issue yet, but plan on using magnetic knife holders. See my "For the Boy" board on Pinterest for an example.

    Ack, love this idea, we have MB cars EVERYWHERE!  Where would you find magnetic knife holders on the cheap...hmm....

    IKEA? They have everything, right?

    lol, yup, see my post that I was writing when you answered!

    Great minds...or maybe it's just something about Ashleys. Smile

    I was thinking it would be fun to paint a racetrack on the wall and mount the black holders on the road area. Although, thinking about it a little more, I foresee lots of scratches, I mean tire tracks, all over the wall that way.

    That's a fun idea!  My brother had a race track on his wall when he was a kid :)  Maybe make the track out of something sturdier than just paint...not quite sure what though...

    cute! If only we could paint his walls....sigh.

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  • EmmieBEmmieB member

    so I just tried it with our knife bar - and none of the cars stick. The one car that is magnetic - a 25 year old matchbox golf GTI is too short in the wheel base for it to make a difference. the "die-cast" cars 2 cars I bought on friday don't even pretend to be magnetic.

    sigh.

    ETA: these are the cars I bought: https://www.amazon.com/Disney-Pixar-Cars-McMissile-Die-Cast/dp/B0050QTX66/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1310429285&sr=8-2  (it's got the 3 wheel car that the Stig crashed!)

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  • SweetiePSweetieP
    OMG - we have so many match box cars there's no way I'd ever "display them".  They are all dumped in his old baskets from his changing table (the one I kept diapers/wipes/lotions in.   I'd seriously need to have a magnetic knife holder than went around his room almost twice I'm sure.
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  • jsugrinjsugrin member
    We have my brother's entire collection and it still lives in the same ol huge coffee can that my parents kept them in.  At this point it looks way less tacky and way more cool vintage (my brother is 40 after all).  We've found that even the old ones, a lot of them don't have enough metal to really stick.  Although our "research has been more in the use of making magnetic cranes and lifting the cars up than getting to stick to something stationary.
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  • EmmieBEmmieB member

    imagejsugrin:
    We have my brother's entire collection and it still lives in the same ol huge coffee can that my parents kept them in.  At this point it looks way less tacky and way more cool vintage (my brother is 40 after all).  We've found that even the old ones, a lot of them don't have enough metal to really stick.  Although our "research has been more in the use of making magnetic cranes and lifting the cars up than getting to stick to something stationary.

    That's what I've discovered. I saw somewhere that someone had them in a hurricane as "Art" but if I did that now he'd go crazy trying to get them all down. Maybe when he's older.

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