/diy/ - Do It Yourself

I was actually gonna make a thread about organization. I'm new to this stuff and quickly amassing more stuff than I can easily haul around.

I don't have a dedicated work space or bench, nor the means to get one. I mostly use the kitchen table.
I keep most bulky stuff, like meter, battery housings, alligator leads, etc, in an old ammo can. Capacitors and Resistors in the boxes they shipped in. Other misc wire bundles, transistors, etc, in another shipping box.

I'm about to drop $300+ on more stuff, including a soldering iron, stand, magic hands, and a bunch of other stuff, and know it's gonna be nigh impossible to haul all that around. So what do I do? Can a normal plastic toolbox do the job? Or should I use a tackle box? Do they make dedicated electronics toolboxes?

And how do I get a good spread of resistors? I got like 20 different "common" values in a pack a while back but somehow every project I find calls for new values that I don't have and I end up making frankenstein resistor series that add up to the required resistance.