Reddit mentions of Sterilite 18429001 Footlocker, Black w/ Titanium Handle & Galvanized Steel Latches, 1-Pack

I bought a couple of these last winter to store food in the snow in case the power went out. I'm using them for clothes and bedding now. They're very sturdy and they have different sizes.

Ok, so here's what the footlockers look like. They're under $20 at Walmart also available on Amazon.

Here's the 7 quart container. The links I have for Walmart and Amazon are both to cases of 14, which is kinda overkill. You can get them a few bucks each at Walmart and probably similar stores.

For eyepieces, I bought gray foam from a local place called, believe it or not, the Foam Store. But I found this place online that sells it at a reasonable price.

Finally, here's an example of how things fit together. The 7 quart bins fit perfectly sideways. I think I can get 4 full rows if I want. The larger one you see on its side (with the foam in it) is my Meade 5000 series set (40mm 2", 32mm 2", 26mm 1.25"/2", 14mm 1.25", and 5.5mm 1.25") along with my 2" diagonal. I don't have good lighting in my observatory, so I couldn't get much in the way of pics. I might go out this weekend and get some better ones so you can see better how I pack them into the containers.

I have four of these footlockers. One is lined with gray foam and is a case for my 8" SCT (Meade 2080 OTA). When I haul everything out to my club's dark site, typically one of the bins has my SBIG in it's small Pelican case, my DSLR which is in a 15 qt version of those bins (which doesn't fit sideways, which annoys me), another 7qt with my two meade DSI's (mostly used for guiding), and two 7 qart bins with cables and adapters, and two more half-size ones (I think they're 4 quart, one of which contains a white tshirt for flats, and the other a focal reducer, and some odds and ends. Another bin has the meade eyepieces, two other 7 quart bins with my other eyepieces, a 7 quart with my hand control, power suply and dec cable for my mount, another with a small tool kit, and one more with my red flashlight, mosquito repellant, and some other odds and ends. The fourth container is for my two 80 mm refractors, red screen for my laptop, a book of paper logs, a 50' extension cable, and some other various odds and ends. It sounds like a lot, but because I mostly keep them packed with whatever isn't set up in the observatory, it takes only a few minutes to load them into the back of my Ford Escape - the ideal vehicle for hauling this crap. ANd that's only if I"m taking everything (which I frequently don't).

I have a Pelican rolling case for my mount head. The only thing I don't have a case for that I'd like one for is the mount tripod - it won't fit in the footlockers and I haven't found anything else that works. But, since it's all now permanetly set up in the observatory, that's something of a moot point.

Do you have any close friends that you could trust getting mail like that sent to? If the getting it mailed to you home address is the issue, I have heard of many people doing this because of nosy family members.
If its just having them at the house in general thats an issue you can get a lockbox/footlocker on amazon that you can keep your private things in.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00ESLT6NE/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_dp_ss_1?pf_rd_p=1944687462&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=B001ELIEU2&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=0E7PEAJ1KV3DFDK9KQC3
If that isnt a possibility, working towards moving out i guess is your only other option.
Also, if they open your mail...thats very....illegal.

All that said, please dont stick things that arent meant for anal play up your butt. Those pool toys are a good example as they are not flared enough at either end to be anal safe. Anuses have a way of sucking things up into them and im sure a hospital trip because you got a foreign object stuck up there would be a lot worse than them finding a dildo. Please be safe.


I am very sorry for your situation, it sounds rough.

Yeah good point. I'd prefer a male but I'm inclined to prepare for a female in the case of mis-sizing. But since tubs are cheap I could see the value in starting smaller. I mostly just want to guess a good adult size tub even if I'm not getting one now for purposes of allocating space. I'm an apartment dweller so each herp I add usually means a little bit of redecorating. Even if the current tub is smaller, I'd like it to be in the space of the future one. I've read a bunch of sources saying size preference also varies by animal so while I'm not looking forward to it, I suspect I may end up trying a bunch. I guess then the question is what size is a good start and what's a good indicator of time to size up. I've read a few sites where people go by weight but I've been sizing my corn by length using the "L+W should = Snake L" logic (although she's in a much bigger viv at the moment because I got a lucky craigslist posting).

Sorry for all the dumb questions but in my local area we technically can't own pythons (it's technically on the books but unenforced, ironically a citywide pet survey showed ball pythons to be the most popular reptile pet despite that) so if I ask at my favorite herp shop they get kind of clammy about the topic because city officials apparently try to trick them into "encouraging illegal animals" or some bother. Hit the same wall looking into kenyan sand boas.

Edit: I was thinking about something like this https://www.amazon.com/Sterilite-18429001-Footlocker-Titanium-Handle/dp/B00ESLT6NE/ref=sr_1_3?s=storageorganization&ie=UTF8&qid=1472834024&sr=1-3&keywords=trunk If I could ventilate it with my soldering iron and figure out some way to put a nice secure lighting port in the top.