I have a platform bed, with drawers underneath. Two have out of season clothes/blankets; the other two have clothes that I use regularly. I love my underbed storage!

My Mom has a small apartment, and uses boxes under her beds for out of season clothes, extra leaves for the dining table, a blow-up air mattress for a kid when family visits. She's very organized, and keeps a list of what's under each bed. And she knows where she keeps the list!

We keep the extra leaves to the dining-room table under there, in their original shipping boxes. It's the only space in the house that's roughly the same shape. And then, there are two under-bed plastic storage boxes, one w/ the spare sheets and the other w/ the beach towels.

Dust bunnies... or dust dinosaurs (really old ones)..... ;-) Nothing under the bed in the master bedroom and one of the guest rooms. We've designed the closets to hold the off-season bedding for each of these rooms. In the other guest bedroom we have extra bedding vacuum-sealed in Zip-Lock Space Bags. This is one of those areas I've really been considering eliminating. It's been a really l-o-n-g time since we've had an over-flow of people staying with us and needed all that extra bedding, and I don't see an occasion for it any time soon (we'll just spring for a hotel). With this gentle reminder, I'm going to put it on my list of things to do this week.

Fascinating :^) Who knew that so many people keep table leaves under there?

I've often heard the advice to keep extra bedding under there, but we don't keep a tremendous amount of extra bedding, and have plenty of room in the hall cabinet for that sort of thing. Not sure what we'd put in the hall cabinet if we didn't have bedding in there...

Yesterday I decided to pull out another bag of under-bed goodies. This time was DH's bags (backpacks, duffel bags, other travel stuff). He hadn't put it away well and the bag had been left open. As I tossed the bags to the side of the bed, a giant cockroach scampered out- ewww. So then I washed EVERYTHING (after dispatching the offender). Our area has had some very bad cockroach outbreaks, but we've been lucky to only see a handful in the last 10 years. They totally creep me out. Just one more reason to minimize possessions and reduce hiding places.

eww, I really hate the gigantic ones; the waterbugs we have in NYC. Even the big classic ones are awful.

I've all ways kept dining room table leaves under the bed. You need to keep them flat and not store standing up. Don't have a big table anymore, so nothing under the bed.

dust

An extra folding table for holidays.

I've never liked having things under the bed. Probably dates back to childhood and wanting to be sure that there were no monsters under there. Our eldest cat "winters" under the bed near the heat vent. :-)

cat hair. cat toys. cats. oh, and a long box with all my wrapping paper and stuff in it.

Ha ha, I had almost posted that our cat was spending more time under the bed now that there was less under there. I guess dining room table leaves and cats are the two best things to have under a bed :^)

Pool floaties, beach umbrellas, and beach towels during winter, plastic bagged down comforters for the bed on which it belongs during summer.

out of season clothes...

Just dust and some of Harry's shedding hair.

Two plastic boxes of our off season clothing. And one cat.

I have the long plastic box of wrapping paper, looks like I'm not alone. I also have my suitcase. Inside the suitcase is some junk I only use for traveling. Toiletry bag, neck pillow, headphones.

When we first moved in I planned on keeping an under the bed container for sheets and extra bedding in each room because we don't have a hall linen closet. Then I realized it made more sense to keep these items in the walk in closet in each bedroom.

I never thought to keep table leaves under a bed. I always kept them in the hall coat closet at our last home when not in use. Now I just leave it on the table all the time.

Three pairs of winter boots in their original boxes, a roll-out container for handbags, a roll-out container for shoes, and a scale.

Nothing. Nothing under any beds. I can remember my mother taking a broom to push all the junk we would stuff underbeds (to clean of course). She once said. If there were to be a fire everything under here would burn up!! After that statement. Nothing under the beds

Nothing. I am not big on under bed storage. I did store sweaters under the bed while in college.

Just a fire-escape ladder.

I store lots under the bed. Table leaves, wrapping paper, clothes, etc but it's all in boxes and protected.

gwlake -- if there's a fire, you won't be able to grab much of the other stuff, either.

I recently put a queen bed in my son's room, where there was previously a twin bunk bed. I could hardly wait to get storage containers for extra blankets and pillows! I may raise the bed to increase that storage, but that would require a different bed skirt, so I'm holding off to see if I really need it (I'm downsizing like mad, so hopefully not).

I only had 2 bins under my queen size bed. one held gift wrap and one held TP. My new bed is a twin and it will have storage for 4 bins. One will shoes and boots, the others I am not sure yet.

Probably a mountain of dust bunnies, a few "lost" socks and perhaps a few pair of nylons. Can you tell I need to clean?! HA! HA!

Living in an apartment forces one to place items under the bed!

Nothing, if I don't use it I get rid of it. Makes the home easier to clean.

For the last several years I have been down sizing, much to my heir's dismay. I make a trip to the Bethesda Gently Used Store at least once a month. I took the left over dolls I had from my 20 years of collecting and they set a new record of sales for one month. Mostly what I donate now are small items, movies, books, jigsaw puzzles that I don't enjoy. Also electronic stuff and regular household items.

I bought two TV cabinets, and put them back to back with a little extra storage space between them under my bed. Now I have shelves, and drawers under there. There really is no space for a dresser in my room, and this works perfectly.

Wow, it's very interesting to hear all the different perspectives.

Oklamoni, that's a really cool set up that you posted the picture of. Love it! Very creative.

pink-warm-mama-1, you hit on my problem, I think. Though we don't live in an apartment, we do live where houses tend to be a little smaller and we don't have basements, nor attics that are appropriate for storage. We have to be thoughtful about space and storage, and while we've been making the effort to slim down our possessions, what we do have left is better kept concealed beneath a bed, leaving more visual open spaces elsewhere (at least in my fantasy mental 'after' picture :^p)

I shoved the hose to my vacuum cleaner under my bed. It's the only place that it can stretch out. Otherwise where would I put it? Nothing else works.

Other than a cowering dog during thunderstorms, I keep my wrapping paper in a rubbermaid flat on one side, and a roll-out underbed flat on the other side with all my stash of beauty and healthcare items. I buy a year's supply of each when on mega-sale and save a bundle - rarely run out of anything. I use a bedskirt to cover everything.

I never thought about keeping table leaves under there - but since my apartment is sub-ground, I would worry about possible water damage if the sump pump failed. I know some people keep cases of food under there. As long as you can rotate items and find everything under there - why not? It keeps the wooly mammoths at bay.

Table leaves! Great idea! I have nothing under my bed. My dog used to sleep under there decades ago so I got out of the habit of using that area for storage.

I am proud to proclaim that there is NOTHING under any of the beds!

dust.

I have nothing, or like cpartist said, dust. Stuff under bed invites spiders at my house. Easier to vacuum if there is nothing.

A plastic box of my out-of-season pajamas, and a long box of out-of-season shirts.

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