OK, this drawer has magazine clippings from 1991, 233 ketchup packets and enough plastic grocery bags to make a parachute—it's time to clear it out and get organized.

The Container Store is the solution for every packrat. Find boxes, shelves, furniture, gadgets and holders for anything you own in this vast warehouse of functional simplicity. Each aisle is dedicated to organizing a different mess in a shopper's home: kitchen, office, closet, trash, bath, collections and laundry. Find storage for your little girl's jewelry-making beads, the perfect box for all of your son's (or butch daughter's) Hot Wheels, and fun/functional stuff for dorm rooms like magnetic wipe-off boards and stacking drawers. You can even designate a bin for those ketchup packets. Unlike many stores of purely functional items, this one also features some fabulously clever (and inexpensive) novelty gifts.—Mai Dinh