If you are looking for milk crates and don't care if they match, go to a local restaurant and ask if you can pick up theirs. We own a restaurant and our food supplier won't pick up the milk crates (though they are supposed to take them and reuse them). So I try to find uses for them. But some get thrown away anyway :(. If you make it easy for the manager/owner I am sure they would oblige you. Ask which day they get a delivery and offer to pick the crates up before they get busy (or whatever time works for that particular restaurant). As I said, they won't match and some might be pretty banged up, but they would be free.

Sharon, most of the milk crates are from The Container Store. For a very long time, they were $9 each, but they recently raised the price quite a bit. My husband had a lot from childhood, and we've gradually added a few here and there and found a few at a garage sale. If I was doing this all at once, I wouldn't use milk crates because of the expense. It's just what we have, so it is what we use. They are the sturdiest things in the world, though. We are very rough on stuff, but the 30 year-old ones look as new as the new ones. I guess they are a good investment.

I think you just saved my life!!! i have the perfect room and all i need to do is get it organized.....finally, the answer to my prayers!! thank you!!

Where did you get that many milk crates? What is the cost of the milk crates?

Heather, the milk crates are just in $25 bookshelves from Walmart. They fit milk crates perfectly.

Don't need a closet but it sure gives me more ideas for my scrapbooking room!

Thank you for sharing the photos - wow!

To the previous poster - I think the milk crates are just in bookshelves. Very clever.