Since I scratchbuild with styrene, I started collecting a lot of those little Evergreen plastic bags that they come in. It became increasingly more difficult to find that one size I needed at the moment. Recently I came across a tip in one of the magazines about using PVC tube as a storage medium for the strips. I thought it was a great idea. I went to Lowe's and bought a pile of 5-foot lengths of 1/2" PVC tubing (found in the plumbing section). If you maintain a large inventory or model in a larger scale, you may want to opt for a larger diameter tube to store more items in each. The Evergreen styrene strips are 14 inches long, but I decided to make my individual storage tubes 12" long, so that a bit of the styrene strips sticks out of the tube. This makes it easy to see how many full-length strips I have in stock. I went off to my trusty table saw and cut the 5-foot tubes into equal 11-7/8" pieces (so that I can get 5 sections out of each tube). Next, I measured the diameter of the tube and cut square pieces of styrene. This is shown in the next photo.

I clamped a handful of tubes to my work space and used 5-minute epoxy to glue the styrene squares to the bottoms of the tubes.

Next, I went to the computer and created a spreadsheet with a handful of values that I then printed. What I decided to do was make the measurements of the strips in terms of inches in S-scale (my modeling scale). So the last entry is "4 x 12", which means a scale 4 inches by 12 inches. I have another document that converts those values to the Evergreen product number, but that could have just as well been printed out on the labels. You have plenty of space on the tubes. Pick a nice big, bold font so that the labels are easy to read.

After the glue had set, I used clear tape to tape the individual pieces of paper to the tubes. I tried to line them up such that the blue pre-printed information on the tubes is not visible. You could paint the tubes beforehand if so desired. Mine rest in a drawer, so they don't need to look pretty. The reason for using square pieces of styrene for the bottom of the tubes should now be obvious; it keeps the tubes in the right orientation so that I can always see the labels. As you can see in the photo below, it is now easy to grab the strips that I need, and it is pretty obvious which one I need to order next!

This is only about half of the different types of strips I own right now, and my collection is far from complete. I have another 30 tubes waiting to be cut and built. I will also use this same concept to organize my collection of stripwood and brass/bronze-phosphor wires.