I built a shelf to organize my horde of mostly useless junk
Before pic:
I didn't do much planning or design. I kind of just went for it and measured as I made it.
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This sequence is how I can handle "useless" junk. I kept it because I thought it had use, yet it's hard to find it years later when I think I can use it. Or worse, the organize step shows I have duplicates and triplicates. Shitpiles are the enemy. Waist-high piles are the path to gridlock.
Looks great. I should make another rack soon, actually.
I the words of Inception or something, I will not be my father
Looks nice. But, I hope you remember where you put the box of cables, because one day...
One day! I’m keeping all of mine.
Now that you've cleaned it up, remember: if it doesn't fit in a bin, it goes out to the bin
Not with all that new free floor space!
That's how you need another shelf built
and to invent pocket-dimension shelving!
Looks good. Solid looking shelf and the boxes are neat
Thanks!
Clear boxes are the path to true enlightenment.
A label on each container listing what's inside works just as well.
Homebox and its QR Codes with a brief description on the labels would be my go-to. It'd save regularly replacing labels any time something is moved or tossed. I'm using it just to track my tools so far. I define locations (basement, shed, truck, tool cart, tool bag), and assets (long nose pliers, scan tool, cordless ratchet), and assign those assets to locations. Locations can be sub-locations of another location; so my tool bag could be in my truck or it could be in my basement. I've got a handful of tools tagged as "road kit." When I take them from my cart and put them in my road bag, I search that tag, select all and bulk update their location from the tool cart to the bag (and the bag's location from the house to my truck). As long as I'm not lazy about updating I can always find where I last left any tools.
For containers I'd create a location for each tote. Homebox automatically generates QR codes for them. I'd run those onto labels a la "QR, Tote 1, Lego", "QR, Tote 2, Random Cables," "QR, Tote 3, Xmas Decorations" and so on. A quick scan of a code pulls up that tote's page in Homebox to see the exact contents. The most tedious part is taking the time to actually organize and catalog all your existing assets. I'd put it up there with using Picard or Beets to work through a massive digital music collection - it takes a lot of initial time but adding new things later is fast and the payoff is meaningful organization.
Maybe, in my experience they go cloudy scratchy after a few years.
Nice shelf, dude. I would be ecstatic having my stuff organized like that
What is the stuff on the ceiling in the first picture?
I made 3D printed track lights for lighting up the photos I had frame on the wall. They worked okay but I used hot glue to hold the led in place while assembling so it would start to smell like melted hot glue after it had been running for while. They also fell down a few times and I gave up on it. I never got around to removing all sticky pads I used to mount them.
Noice!!
There is a big difference between mostly useless and all useless: mostly useless is slightly useful.
BEHOLD... my stuff.
I see you put it in the weight machine closet. Good call.
So that's where you keep all your holes!
Yep, 1,800 of them.
So many holes, so little time!
It's... beautiful...
*wipes tear from eye
...should have sent a poet
It must feel good to have all that stuff packed away neatly
Whatcha growing buddy?
That's been on my todo list for a while