We've been looking for good candidates to use for mini- and micro boxes and I
think we found a couple that are going to work well. The first we found at
Wal-Mart. It's Rubbermaid's Servin'Sealer #14 which comes 3 to a package for
$2.00. They're less than 4" square and 2 1/4" tall, big enough for a decent sized
stamp, homemade log book and one of those 1" stamp pads. A pen is out of the
question but a golf pencil works well.

For the micro box, go to the baking aisle of your favorite supermarket and
buy one of Schilling's 1 ounce seasonings. I found the Chili Powder at $1.29 to
be the cheapest spice (and essential for Tamale pie!) Empty the spice into
another receptacle and soak the Schilling label off and you have a box larger
than a film canister but smaller than anything else I've seen. The screw-on red
top is going to work great, for most weather conditions I think.

Another cool thing we figured out: We wanted to place one of the mini boxes
mentioned above on a chain-link fence underneath some heavy vines and wanted it
to hang from the fence. We used silver duct tape to cover the body of the box
then covered the top of the box separately with the tape. We doubled up on
the tape in one of the corners of the box making sure it was sticking out over
the edge of the box. We poked a piece of heavy wire (coat hanger) through this
extra piece, shaped it into a hook and were able to hang it nicely on the
fence.

Although east coast people might find other results, we'll keep an eye on
these boxes and let you know how they survive California's weather conditions.

Doublesaj & Old Blue
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