Storing Your Un-built Stash

Damp and extremes of temperature are detrimental to kits. The loft is out. It's very cold in winter, searing in summer, dirty, and extremely damp during certain climatic conditions. Unheated rooms near to sources of water vapour are also a no-no. So the spare room next to a bathroom is a non-contender for kit storage. Your kits get cold in winter and every time the bath or shower is used and the door opened, water vapour condenses on the boxes, the decals and the instructions. Even kits supposedly sealed in cellophane are at risk. They are not airtight.
A few years ago, my wife came up with a solution to the problem, motivated, I suspect, by an interest in re-gaining bedroom wardrobe space rather than preserving my un-built stash!

Argos list a "Set of 2 jumbo storage bags" at £4.99 (November 2004) in "Storage/bedroom", catalogue number 875/0967. These are quality polypropylene clear-fronted bags with a plastic zipper, size W 91cm, D 54cm, H 48cm and can accommodate a useful number of kits.

They minimise rapid temperature fluctuations and exclude water vapour and dust. You can see what you've got and keep it clean and dry. Surplus air can be expelled from part-filled bags. They work. Highly recommended.