Stinkerpants

Library Card Catalog Organization!

September 30, 2008 in Personal Projects • Our Home

Anyone who knows me knows that I love organizing things.  I’m a Virgo, so maybe it comes with the territory.  Some of my favorite possessions include my iPhone’s calendar function, my label maker, and now this:

 About a week before the wedding, I was perusing Craigslist when I came across a whole bunch of used library card catalogs for FREE. I’ve been wanting one of these for ages, but every time I’d seen them, they were hundreds of dollars.  After all, this is a beautiful and hefty piece of furniture.  It’s solid oak and has over seventy drawers!

Mr. Stinkerpants wasn’t nearly as thrilled about the prospect of getting these suckers as I was, but I really needed his help.  Lucky for me, he’s a kind person and is generous with his time.  :)  We rented a truck from Zip Car (seriously one of the best ideas ever), drove over to Cal State East Bay and picked up two of them.  Why two?  Well, one for good measure (haha).  It was quite an ordeal, I will admit: in order to make moving them manageable, we had to take out all of the drawers.  I’m storing one in our basement until we move and I get a bigger office, and one is out for display.

I replaced all of the old labels with colored signs.  The bottom half of the card catalog is for storing my various craft items–pens, adhesives, gocco supplies, etc.  The top half is for storing the extra copies of projects I’ve done for my business, which I use as samples for various things.

Check it out!  Pull out shelves, so I can take a drawer out to examine its contents:

I am in love.