Heaven on Earth: The Container Store
March 18, 2008 12:13 am reducing clutter, Office Supply Fetish, tools
The last time I was in San Francisco I stumbled across a utopia of organization: The Container Store.
Leave it to San Francisco — a mixture of the free spirited and intensely productive — to have such a place. Outside the entrance to The Container Store, dirty hippies mumbled psudo-zen nonsense through the fog of drug smoke that surrounded them.
“Woah,” said one to the other. “They only sell containers? Like, with nothing in them?”
“Yeah man, emptiness is the product.”
“That’s deep. Like really deep.”
Having no patience for such things, I knocked down the hippies, rushing past them to satisfy my office-supply-fetish glee.
Inside, The Container Store was everything I hoped for: shelves filled with empty containers of all shapes and sizes. Each box whispered seductive promises of a life more organized if only I would take it home. Had I not just been passing through San Francisco on a road trip. I would have emptied my wallet and taken all I could carry.
It’s worth a pilgrimage to San Francisco for the organizational faithful.
[Click here to visit The Container Store]
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Header photograph by photohome_uk
March 18th, 2008 at 4:18 am
There’s a Container Store in Toronto too…
March 19th, 2008 at 8:41 am
It’s a (U.S.) nationwide chain store…no need to go to SF necessarily. It’s ok… not that special in my mind though.