Shelves

I am dedicating this blog entry to shelves. Yesterday I spent 12 hours in the basement working on organizing some different areas. The first was my cold storage room. We had some shelves built into the room but they were so far apart that there was a lot of wasted space. Each wall had 3 shelves so last week I added two more shelves giving us 5 per wall. That was a real pain. (I really don't know if it was a smart thing for me to learn how to run the cordless drill. I look back now 15 years ago and think that it was probably a mistake to install our first garage door opener rather than waiting for Glenn to find the time to do it. My impatience set a bit of a precedence.) Anyway I finished that storage room yesterday and quickly filled it. We had some food storage in the garage because of the lack of space so even though I completely filled the room I did get everything in there that was supposed to be there. I wish I had before and after pics but you will just have to settle for after. Here's the cold storage room.

Next we emptied some storage shelves in the basement laundry room and used them to organize the books for the amazon account that the kids will be running. This was Dylan's account but we decided to make it a kids account so they can all pay for their extra-curricular activities. Dylan was ok with the change because he now gets help and it's paying for the same things that he was using it for anyway. We used to make him pay for baseball, golf etc. but now it will be paid out of this account directly. A lot of my time yesterday was spent overhauling his amazon account. He really wasn't listing things correctly so a little more training was probably in order anyway. Here's how the book shelves look now. The girls did all the stacking and I think they did a great job.

All the books on these shelves were still in boxes that were stacked in corners and crannies. This isn't the whole inventory, there are two other book shelves by the computer just outside this room. I'm excited to have this organized and to have the kids all helping. I think it will be a good system.
And lest you think I have it all together here is the stuff that we cleared out of the laundry room which is now awaiting more shelving!

I never really have it all together but I do love the feeling of progress!