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A storage unit comprising in combination:

• a housing including at least a fiberboard top wall, a fiberboard bottom wall and two opposed fiberboard side walls, with each wall having a forward edge cooperating to define an open front end for the housing, said housing being formed of a first and a second fiberboard blank, said first blank being scored and folded at boundaries defining one of said side walls, said top wall, and a first layer of said rear wall, said second blank defining the other of said side walls, said bottom wall, and a second layer of said rear wall, said blanks being joined at corners between said top and bottom walls and said side walls, and said layers of said rear wall being adhered together;
• a particle board panel positioned inside of each side wall adjacent the forward edge thereof;
• a rearwardly extending groove provided in each of said particle board panels and defining aligned upper and lower internal shoulders;
• a fiberboard shelf having a forward edge and including a relatively rigid channelled casing receiving said forward edge;
• said shelf and said channelled casing being firmly supported within said grooves between said aligned upper and lower internal shoulders so that said particle boards, shelf and casing define a plurality of accurately spaced and maintained drawer-receiving openings;
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• a plurality of drawers, at least one of said drawers being slidably supported on said shelf and casing.