Crates

[Immy's Dad]

Anyone give me any ideas where I might be able to get my hands on some crates for my ever expanding collection of bottles?

I am preferably looking for free ones!

:rolleyes:

[bitter_dave]

If you can't get crates you could ask your local off license if they have any spare boxes maybe. These will obviously be strong enough to hold bottles and, I would have thought, stacked as they would be when transported. Otherwise a supermarket - when we moved recently we went into supermarkets and asked for boxes and they were only too happy to get rid of them - although you would want to make sure they were the right size for bottles.

I've seen crates of beer bottles on offer on Ebay, but obviously that involves potentially travelling.

Just a thought

[fizzypop boy]

could try a dairy if you have one locally

[bod]

you could build your own if you were that way inclined like our american cousins....

http://wideopenwest.com/~gregmuller/beercase_album.htm?

sometimes i doubt they have jobs to go to with all these gadgets they keep making!!!

[Reg]

I ask nicely at pubs. Typically they may have a few that have failed to be collected if they've changed this or that supplier. I have two I use for cleaned bottle storage.

Reg

[Horden Hillbilly]

I toured the local off licences to get my crates, they were happy to let me have them if I paid them the deposit that they had paid.

It was about 10 years ago now, if I recall correctly they charged me £1 per crate + vat, total £1.17p.

[bod]

i actually use old safeway crates, they are big, sturdy plastic things that hold a good 30 bottles. safeway tried to get everyone to use them instead of plastic bags about ten years ago, as 3 of them fitted their trolleys perfectly, but i've inheirited them from my mum, we've got about 20 between us!