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Almost ten years ago now, I started brewing beer. And after the first time moving bottles around, I realized pretty quick that I needed a better system. One of my friends, also a brewer, was like, "oh, yeah, you need milk crates. I'll fix you up."
And a week later or so, he brought me a half dozen mismatched milk crates (black, tan, blue) that he had "acquired" from the loading dock by the local Wal-Mart. My friend is an inveterate acquirer - not an outright shoplifter, but a taker-from-things-set-aside. As these were. Wal-Mart's a billion dollar corporation. They're not going to miss six milk crates.
Since then I've used these to store empties in the garage, and full bottles in my mechanical room. But also other uses: storing split logs for our fire pit, for example, and today I hauled dozens of finished books from our nightstands down to the bookshelves in the basement. Pretty useful! Not bad for "free".