How do you store your odds and ends? (bass edition)

[G]

I, as you probably have too, have developed a very large collection of bass guitar odds and ends: Extra strings, polishes, pedals, capos, tuners, cables etc.

My question is, what do I do with all this stuff? Where do I put it? How do I organize?

Or rather, how do you?

[lemur821]

I just have a place for everything. Picks go on the nightstand, strings go on a box, tuner and ebow stay where I leave them, slides do the same, and on. I'm experimenting with putting things I may need when I go out in one of those "bag" things, so we'll see how this goes.

[tplyons]

I have a drawer for my spare strings, unless they're for a specific instrument, then I'll throw 'em in the case. Capo's, slides (also a guitar player) sit on top of my Hammond organ, music in the bench, books and magazine issues are in milk crates, and picks are in a bowl on top of my amp. Everything's got a place and everything goes in it's place.

[Marley's Ghost]

I have several different size storage drawers for stuff. Big ones for cables and large things, small ones for adapters and little stuff.

[Introvox]

I use a large sized Fishing Tackle Box

Organized awesome and mobile

[G]

I've been doing the rubbermaid/milk crate thing. I'm really not happy wiht it. Any suggestions? A duffel or something?

[Spector_Ray]

Go to your local home improvement center and buy a storage cabinet. They come in all sizes and even have ones with different size drawers. They're great for the small stuff like picks and other knick knacks and the larger drawers will accomodate the small polish bottles. This is a great small cabinet.

As far as cables and bigger items like stomp boxes, I use storage bins like these that are stackable.

[G]

Thanks Spector Ray. Those look like something I could do. THen I could just pick and choose when I go to the gig.

[Phalex]

Everything goes in a gym bag, and the gym bag goes everywhere I play my bass. I like to think I have all the bases covered, until the next unforseen disaster pops up. Then I'll have another must have essential item in my bag o tricks.

[davetakis]

gig bag. after everygig i restock it if i have used anything out of it.

[Lazylion]

I have a leather gig bag crammed with stuff, very heavy, comes into every gig with me. Then I have a plastic container, originally used for delivering auto parts, with my spare stuff. It comes to the gig, but stays in the car. Then there's the stuff I never need, should throw out but somehow never do, in a milk crate in the basement.

[JanusZarate]

I have a box full of odds and ends - old strings, EHX pedal boxes, Velcro, soldering materials, resistors, and other random stuff. I got the box at IKEA

I keep a good spare set of strings and a few other frequently used items (like picks, string cleaning stuff, etc.) in my bass gig bag pockets.

[iamoldschool]

Originally Posted by Phalex

Everything goes in a gym bag, and the gym bag goes everywhere I play my bass. I like to think I have all the bases covered, until the next unforseen disaster pops up. Then I'll have another must have essential item in my bag o tricks.

+1 - I prefer to call it a Gear bag, but alas, in another life it was, indeed, a gym bag. Keeps my cables, stands, power strip, etc. in an accessible place. If it gets full, I'll just get a bigger one or thin out what I take with me.

[Phalex]

I refer to it as my "Gig bag" but that has an entirely different meaning. I also refer to it as my "Possibles bag", but in the shooting sports, that's something else too.

I have one for bass stuff, and one for mic cables, and extension cords, tools, and the like.

[Christopher]

Milk crate.

[G]

Not exactly elegant solutions, but we make it work.

[embellisher]

I have a small metal trunk for the things that I don't use much around the house. I always take it on a gig. Tool, cords, extension cords, duct tape, pedals, charts, etc.

The stuff I use often around the house - polish, allen wrenches, etc, I keep on my computer desk.

[DougCraft]

In a burlap oyster sack

[BassChuck]

Everything I need to play my bass is in the bass case, that is, extra strings, cables, neck strap, tuner and light tools. Everything I need for my amp is in a bag I carry the amp in, power cord, speaker cables. Everything for stage in is a duffle bag (lots of great choices there at the sporting goods store) bass stand, power strip, towels, tape, all kind of emergency things like sewing kit, first aid kit, sharpie markers, paper, clothespins... you get the idea. I always put everything back where it came from..... if I don't really keep that kind of pattern I'll lose things.

[RockBobby]

There's a cop supply store intown and I got a tactical bag with all kinza zippers and pockets. Holds, cords, strings, mike, pedals, wallwarts, even a folding stand if I want. Something like this.
http://www.copsplus.com/prodnum967.php