Best Storage for Toys

If you're like me, you absolutely can't stand getting up in the middle of the night to use the toilet and accidentally stepping on a Cuisenare rod. The single units are the worst, not early as bad as a Lego or Barbie shoe, but still. painful. What's a mom to do? It's not like you can tell them not to use their math manipulatives, right? And honestly, I think I might rather see them on the floor than to see the dog eating them or find them floating in the toilet or in the yard, right?  So I posed this question to a friend of mine who runs a daycare; "What's the best way to store these small items, so the kids can have an easier time putting them away. Because honestly, the ziploc bag isn't working. the kids can't even zip it after it gets old, so we needed a new plan. She sent me a link to a discount school supply website where they have classroom storage solutions. Brilliant. We ended up getting these bins with a storage rack and so they're open all day long and the kids can put them away in a zip (pun intended) (lame pun, I know but still...)

Anyway, so if you're troubled by stepping on random toys in the middle of the night, consider the benefits of having one of those classroom storage units because they make it super duper easy to keep things put away and that's important because kids won't likely go out of their way to put something away, but if it's easy and accessible, it's just second nature after a while, even for kids.