16 Quart Square Milk Crate

Buy it Here for $6

Bike basket, side table, stool, chair, laundry bin, trunk organizer, dungeness crab/lobster pick-up box…milk crate!

How can an item that is so versatile, so handy and so attractive be so hard to buy? Five gallon buckets are a dime-a-dozen and there is no shortage of terrible looking eco-totes, but you have a better chance of seeing a snow leopard than seeing a milk crate for sale. Moreover, and not that it's really enforced all that much, stealing a dairy’s milk crate could carry up to a $500 fine. Apparently milk crate theft costs dairy farmers some eighty million dollars a year?

This all wouldn’t be such a big problem if hardware stores actually sold milk crates!  Well, The Hardware Store Of My Dreams would have stacks and stacks of them in a veritable rainbow of colors. They would be $6 a piece and you could mix and match colors. In this milk crate utopia, we could all harmoniously store things in colorful crates without running the risk of a $500 fine and participating in the subversion of the dairy industry. It would be wonderful. 

By the way, the shipping on a set of six of these is only $24, which while its almost the same cost as the crate itself on a per unit basis, thats quite reasonable for shipping such a large set of items. You are still getting the crates to your door for $10 which ain’t bad.

Also, while you are taking a gander at these fine milk crates, its also nice to remind yourself of the capacious bread tray, and the immune-to-the-elements attached lid tote.