Reorganizing a basement nook on the cheap

I have a little nook in my basement where I placed a wire rack a while ago.  It quickly became a place for me to throw random stuff on and became very cluttered and messy.

I finally got sick of looking at this growing mess.  Not being able to spend a lot of $ I finally tackled this beast.  I found a number of plastic bins I had not been using around the house and picked up a few more at Wal-Mart.  I sorted everything into clear categories like "Sewing" "Crafts" "Pictures" and "Paints" and printed out labels on plain paper and tapped the labels onto the bins.

I also purchased a tension curtain rod for $1.79 and used an old curtain to cover the nook. Leaving the curtain down hides it all and sometimes I can tie it back.

Of course not everything fit neatly into bins as you can see, but it's a vast improvement over how it originally looked with everything thrown on top of each other.