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hans:
I have TH E12 series resistors in an organizer drawer.
If I would do it again I would sort them into bags in 1 small box. I don't really like organizer drawers after using them for a while. They are a pain to transport and take up wall space. I rather put shelves on walls rather than organizer drawers.
But that other time probably won't come, as I use only SMT now.

For SMT I bought one of those 0402 resistor kits from Ebay for like 18$ at the time, just like illustrated above by zapta.

This is by far the most convenient option. After all I find sorting parts like series of resistors and capacitors to be very tedious and annoying.
The rest of my parts are in these small boxes:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/5-color-50pcs-Kit-Components-Boxes-Laboratory-Storage-Box-SMT-SMD-Kits-26-33-22-/161104118886?var=&hash=item0
Not really sure how antistatic they are. But I keep small SMT parts in them anyway.

Just add a label printer and you can probably fit a complete E48 assortment of 0402 or 0603 resistors/ceramic caps, plus 100 IC's/small connectors into a travel bag.

Ian.M:
I've recently sorted a couple of E12 leaded resistor kits into a 13 compartment organiser box, grouped by the two prefix digits.  Each bandoleer tape is labelled and the decades sorted in order within each compartment.  I've got the 13th (quad size) compartment free for odds&sods, or overstock of any E12 value.

I've done the organiser draws on a wall before and it is too much of a waste of wallspace.  I've also done individual storage tubes (for micro 1/8W leaded resistors) and that's also a PITA as all you see is a field of tube caps, so you label each one, then almost invariably two or more caps get swapped and you spend 10 minutes putting the right cap back on the right tube, or the tube you want isn't there, and you have to chase round to see who's forgotten to return it.

One organisation I was involved with had wall mounted bins for stores, one bin per item but didn't have extra bins for non-E12 values.  They just put them in the closest E12 bin.  Unfortunately that meant that a requisition for 20 1K resistors and 20 1K2 resistor would be met by a variable mix of 1K, 1.1K and 1.2K resistors totalling 40.   ::)  Use extra draws/compartments/folder pocket sheets for non-standard values and don't try to sort them with whichever E series you stock.  ;)

RoGeorge:
This is what I was using in the last 30 years, too: sealed letter envelopes cut in half.



So far, it was the best way to store various TH components in small quantities.
Very easy and fast access to parts, small space footprint, very cheap and very easy to make, zero maintenance.

Actually, none of the expensive organizers I have can beat the DIY ones.

These ones, also the most expensive ones, are the worst: drawers are hard to open, the material is not fully transparent and you need to open 100 drawers to search for parts, dust can easily enter into closed drawers, the parts jumps out of drawers if transported by car, and so on. A total fail, but an expensive one: what's in the picture costs a couple of hundred USD. Half of them are still in their original sealed plastic foil. The other half is sparsely populated with very rare accessed parts, rare like once in a year or less.



On the orange cap is embossed "TOOD". Stay away from them.

Some of my other DIY organizers:
https://hackaday.io/project/6261-new-a-free-lab-organizer

Bryan:
I am thinking now just using coin envelopes and storing them in those old school business card holders. The envelopes should fit in the plastic sleeves

Ian.M:
No.  The business card organiser wont shut nicely once more than about 1/4 its pages are filled, because parts in an envelope/sleeve are significantly thicker than a business card.  You need individual organiser pocket sheets in a lever arch file, (preferably in a box case so it doesn't get crushed) to allow enough expansion at the spine.

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