Words, words, words.

[azriona]

So the good news is that Bill and I finally managed to put the bookshelves together and secured to the wall on Friday, which means I've spent the weekend unpacking books in ten-minute increments. (It's actually very quick work.) The bonus good news is that we still have space on the five bookshelves - the bad news is that we've still got two

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[wickedgillie]

I organize my books by topic. I keep the authors together, and I put their books chronologically rather than alphabetically. I do the same with cds (and previously with my record collection)

[azriona]

Oh, you're good. Our DVDs are generally a mess, but that's also because we don't have a really good storage system for them. They're kind of scattered, and thus I've never really been able to implement much order beyond Children, TV, and Movies.

[wickedgillie]

We ran out of dvd storage, so I took all of the kid's dvds out of their boxes and put them in cd storage sleeves in little zippy books. And I'll concede they're in no order whatsoever because the kids constantly mess them up and I just gave up. But I am anal about my books and music.

[azriona]

Our "storage" (note the quotation marks) is a mish-mash of small IKEA shelving units and under-the-couch bins, none of which hold even half the entire collection. I don't dare put Andrew's discs in anything remotely accessible because he has a habit of finding them and dragging them all over the house, and has ruined several DVDs that way. I'd like to find something to store them all - but I think it's a lost cause. There don't seem to be that many DVD storage thingiewhatsits anymore, what with everyone going digital. (Or maybe I'm just not looking in the right places.)

[beatlejessie]

I rearranged all of my books a few months ago (when I was just going to set up a new cable box and ended up spending the entire evening moving around furniture instead!) They are mostly arranged by author, but then again they're mostly fiction :)

As I was making dinner last night and chopping up cilantro, I had the thought that Chef Sherlock Holmes would very greatly disapprove of my chopping skills, and it would probably bring me a great deal of Sherlockian wrath. Made me laugh!

[azriona]

Oh, I'm sure Chef Sherlock would be horrified by my chopping skills as well. I'm too slow and my cuts are never even enough. Someday I'd like to take a knife skills class, I think it'd be a load of fun and very useful besides.

Right now, nothing's organized on the shelves except by genre. I'm not sure I'll get much more organized than that; if it were just me, it'd be one thing, but Bill's bad enough with putting spoons and forks away correctly. Books might be beyond him.

(If he sees this comment, he's sure to argue in his defense.)

[azriona]

I was mostly kidding about the Dewey Decimal system. I don't want to put THAT much work into it!

(Bill has also said that my inner librarian is coming out; I kicked him, because I think any librarian worth her salt would look at my organization and weep.)

[pakaboori]

Could we maybe please get a picture of these shelves? I don't know why, but that paragraph of description was entrancing. Also, I find your shelf and a half of partially used notebooks utterly swoony.

Err anyway, hurrah for unpacking progress! Also, I am curious about this next Mise recipe :)

[azriona]

Yep, there can definitely be a picture, complete with my blue-painter's-tape-placemarkers.

But as much as I love a notebook, the shelf and a half of partially used ones looks horrible. It's a mishmash of large spiral-bound notebooks, where the spirals are distorted and twisted and ugly, and medium-sized fabric-covered notebooks that don't stand up properly, and tiny Moleskines that are lost among the larger notebooks.

[azriona]

Oh, I have cookbooks in the kitchen, too. That's the problem - I have too many cookbooks for the shelves in the kitchen, so the overflow is in the office (which is actually closer to the kitchen in this house than it was in the Townhouse, so perhaps I could move them all together). Part of my rationale with separating them was to see which ones I really used more often, and basically, I put half the cookbooks in storage and only really missed one of them.

[azriona]

I managed to cull some sewing and quilting books - mostly the ones I never opened in the first place. I kept my tailoring and historical fashion books, though, because those are actually worth something!