Malawi’s answer to The Container Store

When you live abroad, you find yourself noticing parallels between the world you’ve come from and the one you live in. The longer you are abroad, the more tenuous the parallels become. But there more far-fetched the parallel, the more glee is taken in the connection.

Case and point: the search for a plastic bucket yesterday brought me to what is affectionately know by the Peace Corps volunteers around here as the Malawi Container Store.

(Three quarters of the shop is visible in this photo)

While the modest size of the shop occupies about the same size area as the hanger display of the last Container Store I was in, the selection of various colour- and sized-receptacles is certainly impressive. The space is actually so well arranged, it makes the closet-organising section of The Container Store obsolete.