You can see pretty well inside the sterilites from outside, but you just can't take very good pictures from outside ^_-

In order to keep it closed, I use 3 bungee cords, some people put holes in the lid and the lip and use velcro strips. Bungee cords are cheaper and require less work IMHO. 40" bungee's you can get at Wal-Mart for like 2$ each and they work perfectly with the 90qt, so if those don't work with 116qt, then they have 52" as well I think. Though at my Wal-Mart they don't have 116qt sterilites, I wish they did though T_T