Mark has a scary, scary DIY cave. Not scary in the sense of what you can't find, scary in the sense of what you might find when you go looking...

"Oh hey, look at that, 40 OPA627s."

That's just not true!

It was a 25-rail of Intersil buffers.

So I use little plastic divided boxes for resistors, box caps, diodes, etc. Larger caps are in those disposable plastic glad boxes, as are plugs, jacks, and bags of transistors.

My trouble started at one point where I was storing parts by project. A project would get sidelined, and the parts would, too. Figured out that was a mistake pretty early on, but now and then I find a small box or bag with $80 worth of doodads in it. It's all been separated and sorted out now. I think.

These are what the resistor boxes look like. I have 14 of them, each has five values in it labelled on the front, and then the boxes are sequentially numbered on the ends:

Old picture, but you get the idea. There is a larger box of caps under the power supply.

Oh, I just noticed there is a rail of buffers and also a box of cerafines in that picture as well.

I hate to tell you this Mark, but the 6th case up has an out of sequence value on it

If only my shit was as organized, however

Yep, it's an old picture, but I recall thinking "WTF happened there..."

That slot has 470K in it. I've relabelled them a couple times since, some values were too close to bother with and I stopped using them.

I have to confess that the resistors and caps are the only thing that well organized.

My trouble started at one point where I was storing parts by project.

I 100% agree with this statement. I have countless PRP resistors in about a dozen locations for this very reason. All I really have well organized is my transistors., which reminds me that I need to go by some local places and collect some empty TO-220 tubes.