Every so often I have an “episode” where I come up with an idea on how to save space in my flat (which is not overly large). Last time this happened in a serious way, I threw away all my DVD cases (yes it was that long ago) and put the DVDs into a folder. Now I have a stupidly large number of DVDs and BlueRay discs in a couple of those two hundred disc folders you can get. And I don’t have a living room packed with shelves holding nothing but DVDs.
After a week or so of looking at a large pile of recent (and in some cases not so recent – I cleaned my old CD storage unit last week which is currently a display case, and found quite a few oldies) CDs piled up on the stairs waiting to get boxed to go into the spare bedroom, I get another idea … related of course :-
A CD spindle box of course! Or as otherwise known, a cake box. One of those tubular thingies which you could get large stacks of CD-R media in. I happened to still have one lying around, and packed in that large pile of CDs (and a few others). That huge pile is what is about to be thrown out, and that little thing next to it are the CDs themselves.
Now there are disadvantages to this of course – playing the CDs themselves is tricky as you have no easy way of finding a particular one. And looking at the artwork on the case is even trickier. But given I don’t play CDs anymore – they’re all ripped and stored online – and I look at the artwork never, those disadvantages don’t strike me as a reason not to do this.
Of course now I need more empty “cake boxes”! Lots of them.