I came across my birdie the other day and I caught them sitting on the mirror looking outside the window. I do catch them in unguarded moments from time to time, but never have my phone nearby to do anything about it.
I have a lot of c.d.s.
So many in fact, that my tiny little den was becoming quite cluttered because of the amount of c.d.s that I own. So naturally, I needed to get them organized. Fortunately for me, I have quite the imagination and planning capacity when the situation calls for it.
This situation called for it and my solution jumped out at m a couple of months ago, when I saw some cheap wooden crates at my local Dollar Tree store. I said to myself, these would work perfectly as c.d. racks. After taking a couple of measurements and checking to see if a c.d. case could actually fit. They did, and within the space of about a month, between Dollar Tree and Amazon, I had acquired thrity-eight small wooden crates that were 10 x 3 1/2 & 7 x 3 1/2, plus an appropriate number of slats of various sizes.
Fast forward a few months and I start planning on where I can put these crates in my den. I had already emptied the den of my c.d.s, three tower racks and a bookcase, so it made the planning quite easy. Yet, it also made it quite frustrating.
"How?" you may ask.
Well, I am a firm believer of creating a free standing system of display units when it comes to wooden crates, so I thought I would design for my den would be easy peasy lemon squeezy.
BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!
Rule #1: if you're creating a free standing shelving unit, maximum height is four crates. That way, the amount of c.d.s works as a safe counter balance for the height of the crates. This is especially important when you have a baseboard trim and cannot get flush to the wall with your crates. Excess height plus weight equals a disaster in waiting.
Rule #2: always important that you have enough units for the job that you're undertaking. Because thirty-eight units with a maximum capacity of 758 c.d.s is apparently not enough.
Yes my friends, you read that correctly.
Turns out that I had grossly underestimated the amount of c.d.s that I currently possess, thus requiring me to procure six more craters and an equal amount of slats. Plus, I had to find a smidgen more space for all of my c.ds, which are not counting the ones whose height is greater than 5.8 inches, and thus are propped up on a few of the crates as display pieces, along with old coffee cups, a pen cup and some toy cars.
so after redoing the numbers to make the math actually math, I believe I am close to 800 c.d.s. Which does, in a strange way, blows my mind, because if you had asked me nearly thirty years ago, would I be an owner of a format that was prohibitively expensive in those early years (if I recall correctly, new c.d.s were running around $25-$340 per title, much like new vinyl is today), odds were very good that I would answer quite negatively.
Such is the value of hindsight, I guess. In any event, as I stated, my freestanding wooden crate c.d racks were mostly kept to three units in height, and because I had so many c.d.s, I had to find other spaces outside of my den to make them all fit.
On a lighter note, I haven't purchased any c.d.s, new or used, as of late. Not because I don't have any room for them, but more to the simple fact that because I like my stuff reasonably organized, I would have to do a tremendous amount of shifting to make everything fit. And to be perfectly frank, I really do not want to do that kinds of work just yet.
I now have a reasonably organized den where stuff is judiciously spread out, as opposed to stacked upright and compact, and that makes me a happy miser.
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