I've just been reviewing my CD storage.
Sadly (or otherwise) we seem to have about 12 of these Benno units - http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/pr...310/#/87305207
I have been trying to rationalise my CDs by ripping them to hard drive, with the intention of putting the CDs, once ripped, in some safe but less accessible place. However this seems to fail for a few reasons. One is the time taken to do ripping, though that's not too bad. I do in fact now hardly play CDs at all, since it's very easy to play them using the Squeezebox and to control them using software running on my iPad. The other reason is that actually we don't seem to have too many accessible tucked away places which really would be good. I don't really want to have to go rummaging around in the backs of wardrobes to find CDs, and I still balk at the loft which does sometimes get damp because of condensation.
I am beginning to think that the only solution is simply a combination of the following:
1. Dispose/sell/give away some duplicate CDs, and maybe some which I really don't want (that's probably not too many).
2. Buy more Benno units - I can easily find space for 4 or 5 more!
3. Put box sets in separate storage areas.
In the meantime it seems to me that I missed an opportunity a year or two back to buy the extra units, which were cheap.
Now there is a significant price differential between white/black units and wood veneer - £17.99 versus £29.99.
http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/pr...310/#/07305310 [white]
Ah, well - spending about £150 for 5 new units might actually be a lot less hassle, even with the time spent making the things (I can do these pretty quickly now), than trying to find other solutions.
Partly this is due to the "joy" of living in a chalet bungalow (much extended over the years, sideways and upwards, though not by us), where storage upstairs is more or less useless, even though there is space in the rat runs (well, usually mice anyway) under the eaves. The local council seems to favour these pretty useless forms of domestic dwelling, probably because it actually wants to constrain people to live in small houses, rather than larger ones - which is an interesting, and perhaps questionable, aim, and has been known to deny planing permission to those who put in requests for decent, proper houses which then get sized back to chalet style buildings to gain approval.
Another factor, is probably our cutural interests - we also have books, and various other artistic things around the place, unlike some homes/families it seems - http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standa...ook-to-read.do I don't know what the average number of books/household is, but assuming it could even be as high as 100 (possibly doubtful), then I think we must be pulling that average up considerably.
Oh to live in a place without any books, CDs, computers, and other junk! Do I mean that? Perhaps not!
Bit sad really, but I think others may have similar problems.
Sadly (or otherwise) we seem to have about 12 of these Benno units - http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/pr...310/#/87305207
I have been trying to rationalise my CDs by ripping them to hard drive, with the intention of putting the CDs, once ripped, in some safe but less accessible place. However this seems to fail for a few reasons. One is the time taken to do ripping, though that's not too bad. I do in fact now hardly play CDs at all, since it's very easy to play them using the Squeezebox and to control them using software running on my iPad. The other reason is that actually we don't seem to have too many accessible tucked away places which really would be good. I don't really want to have to go rummaging around in the backs of wardrobes to find CDs, and I still balk at the loft which does sometimes get damp because of condensation.
I am beginning to think that the only solution is simply a combination of the following:
1. Dispose/sell/give away some duplicate CDs, and maybe some which I really don't want (that's probably not too many).
2. Buy more Benno units - I can easily find space for 4 or 5 more!
3. Put box sets in separate storage areas.
In the meantime it seems to me that I missed an opportunity a year or two back to buy the extra units, which were cheap.
Now there is a significant price differential between white/black units and wood veneer - £17.99 versus £29.99.
http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/catalog/pr...310/#/07305310 [white]
Ah, well - spending about £150 for 5 new units might actually be a lot less hassle, even with the time spent making the things (I can do these pretty quickly now), than trying to find other solutions.
Partly this is due to the "joy" of living in a chalet bungalow (much extended over the years, sideways and upwards, though not by us), where storage upstairs is more or less useless, even though there is space in the rat runs (well, usually mice anyway) under the eaves. The local council seems to favour these pretty useless forms of domestic dwelling, probably because it actually wants to constrain people to live in small houses, rather than larger ones - which is an interesting, and perhaps questionable, aim, and has been known to deny planing permission to those who put in requests for decent, proper houses which then get sized back to chalet style buildings to gain approval.
Another factor, is probably our cutural interests - we also have books, and various other artistic things around the place, unlike some homes/families it seems - http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standa...ook-to-read.do I don't know what the average number of books/household is, but assuming it could even be as high as 100 (possibly doubtful), then I think we must be pulling that average up considerably.
Oh to live in a place without any books, CDs, computers, and other junk! Do I mean that? Perhaps not!
Bit sad really, but I think others may have similar problems.
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