There Is An Up . . .
Apr. 3rd, 2012 10:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tanarillAnother thing about This Fucking Holiday is that not only are you not allowed to eat any bread, you are not allowed to have any bread in your house, not even a crumb. The rabbis, in their infinite and utterly pedantic wisdom, argued about this for some time and came up with a definition of "crumb" as follows: if you can sweep it up with a feather, it is big enough to be a crumb.
Which means, in practical terms, that we clean the entire house, top to bottom. We do have a house rule that goes "you don't eat where you shit," but on the other hand, every so often it is time to clean the dust off the shelves behind the mirrors in the bathroom, and so on. We clean the glass with Windex, the walls with soft-scrub, the floors with a mop, and everything else with a wet rage. Then we vacuum. Then, if it's a hard floor, we mop. It is an utterly disgusting amount of work, and it is worse than regular spring cleaning. It is religious spring cleaning, so I can't just not do it.
Anyway, as it has been officially a year since I moved to this blighted state and I still had two boxes left, I unpacked them, and come to a decision: I need to organize my binders. See, I'm a pack rat, which means I still have my notes all the way back to sixth grade. I've made the decision to toss everything from before high school, but that's still eight year's worth of binders. Most of these live in spider-filled, falling-over piles under my bed. They need better storage.
So I went to the warehouse store. They were selling garden supplies, since it is that time. I was looking for milk-crate storage, which they did not have. But they had under-bed storage, so I bought one of those. I would have bought more, but they didn't have any more in the back. Only, this being a warehouse store, there was no "back." Instead, there was an "up."
I still need to reorganize the damned things, and I have realized that the dimensions of an underbed storage box and of a binder are not anywhere close to similar, which I think means that less will fit if I use them. Damn. I was not looking forward to annihilating the dust-bunny civilization down there, but it would be nice to be able to get at, for example, my notes on G-coupled protein receptors when I need to. Anyone have any ideas, keeping in mind that large boxes are out because a large box of binders quickly becomes far too heavy to move?
Ta.
Which means, in practical terms, that we clean the entire house, top to bottom. We do have a house rule that goes "you don't eat where you shit," but on the other hand, every so often it is time to clean the dust off the shelves behind the mirrors in the bathroom, and so on. We clean the glass with Windex, the walls with soft-scrub, the floors with a mop, and everything else with a wet rage. Then we vacuum. Then, if it's a hard floor, we mop. It is an utterly disgusting amount of work, and it is worse than regular spring cleaning. It is religious spring cleaning, so I can't just not do it.
Anyway, as it has been officially a year since I moved to this blighted state and I still had two boxes left, I unpacked them, and come to a decision: I need to organize my binders. See, I'm a pack rat, which means I still have my notes all the way back to sixth grade. I've made the decision to toss everything from before high school, but that's still eight year's worth of binders. Most of these live in spider-filled, falling-over piles under my bed. They need better storage.
So I went to the warehouse store. They were selling garden supplies, since it is that time. I was looking for milk-crate storage, which they did not have. But they had under-bed storage, so I bought one of those. I would have bought more, but they didn't have any more in the back. Only, this being a warehouse store, there was no "back." Instead, there was an "up."
I still need to reorganize the damned things, and I have realized that the dimensions of an underbed storage box and of a binder are not anywhere close to similar, which I think means that less will fit if I use them. Damn. I was not looking forward to annihilating the dust-bunny civilization down there, but it would be nice to be able to get at, for example, my notes on G-coupled protein receptors when I need to. Anyone have any ideas, keeping in mind that large boxes are out because a large box of binders quickly becomes far too heavy to move?
Ta.
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Date: 2012-04-05 03:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-04-13 10:31 pm (UTC)Pros: -You can customize the dimensions of your new version of your notes so you can easily store them in whatever container/space you have available.
-The amount of pages the notes took is reduced.
Con: -Takes a lot of time.
But, um, yes, I know what you mean about retaining super old stuff in case it might come in handy, especially school stuff.