Awesome Storage

You’ve spent your hard-earned cash building a collection of great tools, watches, and other pocketable items. Don’t leave them lying around to get lost. Everyday Carry picked 12 really nice valet trays for organizing your gear at home. We’re suckers for compartments, so the Drop Cache is our fave.

You spent big bucks on your laptop, but is your case up to protecting it from shocks or spills? This sleeve from Domiso uses layers of polyurethane, EVA plastic, and sponge rubber to insulate your precious electronic cargo from damage. It comes in sizes ranging from 10″ to 17.3″, so there’s one for every laptop.

Omniwall makes strong and versatile storage systems for tools, and this is their best setup. The 8-foot-wide Weekend Warrior kit includes a variety of shelves, hooks, bins, and holders, keeping all of your tools at the ready. It comes in a variety of panel and accessory colors, and an even bigger 12-foot-wide version.

Do you collect ball caps? This smartly-designed, minimal rack lets you store up to 15 hats on your wall. Simply place your first cap in the DomeDock holder, and start stacking. Available in white or black, with discounts available for multiples.

The Mote offers a unique way to carry and organize small items. It has eight containers which can hold pills, mints, or even soft items like lip balm or sunscreen. At just 85mm x 55mm x 7mm (~3.34″ x 2.16″ x 0.27″), it’s small enough to carry in your pocket or even inside of many wallets.

Add a touch of LEGO awesomeness to any room with these whimsical wall hooks that look like oversize round LEGO 1×1 studs. The set of three includes one white (1″), one black (2″), and one grey (3″) hook. They’re perfect for hanging minifig cosplay hats.

Feeling constrained by the limited ports and expensive storage on modern MacBooks or other USB-C devices? The HybridDrive adds two USB-A 3.1 Gen 2, full function USB-C, 4K60Hz HDMI with HDR, and SD and MicroSD ports, while also adding high speed solid-state storage. Available in capacities from 128GB to 2TB.

There are lots of ways to keep tools organized, but there’s something very satisfying about custom-cut foam dividers that hold tools perfectly in place. The guys at Shadow Foam make that kind of dense foam, and recently used a huge sheet of it to create an epic wall for mounting and organizing all their Makita power tools.

Keep your everyday pocket items neat and tidy with this handsome wooden bedside organizer. It offers trays for wallets, rings, and loose change, and a backboard that can hold one phone, two phones, or a tablet, as well as a watch. In ebony, natural walnut, dark walnut, or cherry finishes.

The Geco Hub is a unique, wall-mounted organizer. It uses a 4×4 grid of silicone rubber structures which can securely hold small objects in place. It’s great for keys, eyeglasses, pens, and desk accessories. Its modular design means you can seamlessly join multiple units together, and it can be ordered in either light grey or blue-green.

This sleek metal case is designed for storing a box of matches, but also works for other small items like jewelry or coins. Each one is milled from a single block of GR5 titanium alloy, and has strong magnets to hold its lid firmly in place. Available with a plain finish, or one of three etched geometric patterns.

These hexagonal containers are perfect for carrying pills, toiletries, jewelry, and other small items. They’re leakproof and light-safe, have interchangeable labels for their tops, and can be snapped together with their built-in magnets. Each one is made from BPA-free, dishwasher-safe plastic, and holds up to 16 ml or .56 oz.

Montana artist Hbar N Craftworks makes these sturdy and substantial tool rolls from Martexin “Gridwax” Army Duck waxed canvas. They come in 8″, 10″, 12″, 15″, 18″ and 24″ wide versions, each with 16 tool pockets and two spacers. They’re also available in a heavy-duty olive drab canvas.

Keep your gun, wallet, keys, and other everyday carry items organized with one of Rycker Design’s manly equipment trays. Each one is CNC machined from baltic birch plywood, then finished in black, dark brown, or light brown stain. Measures 16″w x 9″h x 1″d.

Chelle is a modular vinyl record storage system that’s both practical and good looking. Each of its stackable, dividable wood crates can hold to fifty 12″ albums, and can be easily carried. The optional Chelle Cube turns the crates into furniture, with a locking, slide out shelf, available Corian top and adjustable chrome feet.

Gearheads, give your keys the proper respect, and hang them on one of ZAAS Designs‘ slick key racks, embellished with the logo of your favorite performance car. Each one is handmade from MDF and acrylic, with a faux carbon fiber wrap, and four aluminum key hooks. Measures 7.75″w x 5.5″ h.

Covogoods’ Covobox 2.0 is a hidden storage box that’s made of real books on its front side. It’s perfect for hiding gadgets, cables and other small items on a shelf. The half-box slides out for easy access. You can customize your order’s size and color.

An elegant and substantive way to organize your vinyl record collection. Symbol Audio’s modular storage system features solid wood drawers with soft-close drawer slides, vegetable-tanned leather handles, and brass hardware. Each drawer holds up to 90 records. They can be configured with equipment shelves or open-top storage.

Builder April Wilkerson was looking for a way to get all of the small hardware items out of the way and organized in her shop, so she opened up a section of wall, and built in a series of slotted wooden beams which hold dozens of plastic storage bins. It’s a great idea for an unused interior wall.

The Cardshark asks us to fully embrace our inner geek, adding a variety of useful office tools to a retractable ID badge holder, including a marker clip, a screwdriver, box cutter, SIM card holder, USB flash drive, utility hook, bottle opener, and storage nook that’s just the right size for mini sticky notes.

Keep all your tools organized and easily accessible with DiamondLife’s 6-foot-tall rolling pegboard rack. It’s made from sturdy metal, and offers up thousands of pegboard holes for hanging tools, along with a pair of shelves with lips to keep gear from falling. Available in various finishes, in 2-foot and 4-foot-wide versions.

TEC Accessories‘ watertight aluminum storage capsule isn’t quite TSA-friendly, but as long as nobody thinks it’s an actual stick of TNT, we think it’s dynamite, since it looks cool and holds more than most. Optional bottom caps include a compass, glow light, a tripod thread, and a glass breaker.

You’ve spent thousands on your sneaker collection only to toss them in a closet or on a bookshelf. RCKZ are slick, stackable sneaker boxes which give them an appropriate home. Each box features triangular surfaces which break up and reflect light, while diamond-shaped cutouts ensure stable stacking.