It works! And there was much rejoicing!

[martelvonc]

The shelf unit is put together. It's another of the restaurant rack type. I put the wheels on as it is in the cubby where the main water shut-off valve for the house is. I can remove one storage box and get to to it but I'd rather not take any chances.

I got all the baronial storage boxes on it and now I can get to each one without the song and dance I had before when they were just piled on top of each other. Go me! I still have to find a place for the card tables and the throne parts but that job is for today.

These racks are available at Sam's Club and, according to the box, each shelf will hold 600 lbs. I don't need that much weight baring capacity but they are sturdy and come with wheels. They also all look similar. They are reasonable too, only $78.00

Sam's club had another heavy duty shelving unit that snaps together but I have to take some measurements to see if it will fit in the back room. It might be too tall for the ceiling back there.

I'm annoyed that I cannot get to bins when I want to. This is all important because we have no attic storage and don't want to pay for a storage rental. So the back room and the outside shed are it. The storage system we have now (if you can call it that) is not convenient at all. We don't have a lot of junk as we have pared down greatly which helps but, add to that, Aelfwynn's art work is starting to pile up back there and it's getting to where I can't GET to much easily.

Things are changing slowly but surely for the better.

Comments

[albreda.livejournal.com]

Go you! Very tough area to tackle, and you found a workable solution! :)

My victory over clutter for the week was determining that sharing one difficult to access six-drawer dresser was making it be so overcrowded as to go unused, so now our day to day clothes are in crates in a bookcase, and our "we want them to stay nice, and devoid of cat fur, but we don't wear them that often" clothes are in the dresser. MUCH easier!

[martelvonc.livejournal.com]

Back at ya! That makes perfect sense.

I love that the smallest changes can make the biggest difference. I guess it's just that doing SOMETHING is better than doing nothing.

[albreda.livejournal.com]

Part of my problem, historically, has been an unwillingness/inability to diagnose the REAL problem (too much stuff), and then more of the same when it came to delaying gratification long enough to see a *workable* solution through to completion. With the girls, and my pregnancy, this latest victory was only possible by tackling discrete projects for a few hours (max) at a time, always having stuff put back away in semi-usable/accessible state before the next nap! Only NOW am I seeing any results, and I have more work to go, but at least I'm over the hump!