Similar minimal living link (DormCo)

[GypsyDogs]

Just ran across this link in a quest for milk crates (in colors for organizing)

Because they sell primarily to dorm-dwellers, they appear to have many things that may also appeal to vandwellers and the like.  They also seem to have reasonable shipping costs.

DormCo

 

[LeeRevell]

A lot of very neat stuff in that website! Almost makes me wish I could go to college...... almost.
I see many things that would be perfect for vandwelling!

 

[akrvbob]

Those look to be real milk crates that are as strong as the ones the diary's use. I've always wanted to find a source of legal ones.

If you order any, let us know how good a quality they are!
Bob

 

[Almost There]

 I broke down and bought a pair of milk crates from Home Depot. They only had one color (black) but I wasn't being fussy. They were actually cheaper here in Ontario than the ones at Dormco, so check there first unless you need color coordinated milk crates....

I needed them to get the full sheet of plywood off the floor so I could carve it out to fit the van wall. Two milk crates and a foot stool with some 2x4 on it did the trick. One is now storing all the scrap pieces of wood until I finish the job, the other is full of tools/screws/etc. They'll come in handy for under the bed for storage when it's all finished. I'll probably end up going back for more.

 

[my_vantasy]

Thanks for the link. Lots of neat stuff..I'm starting my Wish List with them!

 

[SoulRaven]

I noticed the bed risers, which would make it quick and easy to raise a hollywood bed frame up to clear the wheel wells...

 

[GypsyDogs]

Those look to be real milk crates that are as strong as the ones the diary's use. I've always wanted to find a source of legal ones.

If you order any, let us know how good a quality they are!
Bob

The quality (and color selection..) of crates was the first thing that caught my eye. Would be easier to organize if you had more than one color. I plan on ordering 2 or 3 very soon. Will report quality. (have real milk crates to compare)

 

[ZoNiE]

As far as I am concerned, If I find them in the trash, they are fair game, and thus, legal. Otherwise, they would end up in a land fill.

Grind off the dairy's name, and you are ahead of the game.

 

[sephson]

Those look to be real milk crates that are as strong as the ones the diary's use. I've always wanted to find a source of legal ones.

Here you go Bob, legal sources for milk crates.

http://www.mcmaster.com/#milk-crates/=xxene7http://www.mcmaster.com/#milk-crates/=xxene7

http://www.grainger.com/search?nls=1&nlsit=0.8&ssf=2&searchQuery=milk+crates

These are industrial suppliers that my employer uses. They're generally not the cheapest suppliers, but odds are they'll have what you're looking for.
http://www.mcmaster.com/#milk-crates/=xxene7

 

[buckwilk]

Here you go guys, http://www.milkcratesdirect.com/set-of-6-rectangular-milk-crates

 

[GrantRobertson]

Grind off the dairy's name, and you are ahead of the game.

I had bought a lot of them from a dairy distributor that was going out of business. There was literally a mountain of them out in their back parking lot. When I went back to college they made a fuss. So I just used a wire-wheel on a drill and "ground" off the labels. Fuss diverted.

 

[highdesertranger]

um isn't there a whole separate law about defacing identifying marks to conceal ownership. by that logic anything you found, you could grind off the identifying marks and it would be legal. like a gun or car. why even go there, are illegal milk crates that much of a necessity that you can't respect the rightful owner. kinda like rustlers altering brands. I don't get this way of thinking. highdesertranger

 

[GrantRobertson]

It was legal for me to have them in the first place. I bought them from the dairy. The removal of the label was to shut up the, um, "uneducated" folks at the university who were afraid of mythical universal laws that supposedly said something was illegal to own because of some ink printed on the side. No ink, no myth, no fear. That is not the same as removing ID numbers from certain specific products for which there are certain specific laws about. You do not strike me as the kind of person who would normally conflate guns and cars with plastic milk crates.

 

[highdesertranger]

well in kalifornia it states on the crates not for sale to the public or something along those lines. I believe the as the law reads it's not just for guns and cars. it's for everything. in fact our ranch has what is called a OAN number we can put it on anything we want. if you deface an OAN number it's the same as defacing the markings on anything else like a gun or car, btw all the newer milk crates have this OAN number. highdesertranger