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removing the mountains of packaging
13 Jul 2019 10:38 amIt is a truth universally acknowledged that when you're packing your belongings in preparation to move, you find you no longer want to take quite a few of them with you.
In this case, we looked at the half bookcase dedicated to CDs and DVDs in little green boxes and decided they had too much mass and volume remaining.
A few years ago we had already taken what were formerly ~4 shelves of DVDs and put them in 9 small CD wallets, and ~4 shelves of CDs in little lidded boxes and replaced their plastic cases with individual envelopes (now 2 shelves' worth).
There were still so many box sets that they were threatening to overflow the two big bins I'd stuffed them in when we started using them infrequently. It seems likely that we won't have any good place in the new livingroom at our house for our big bookcases, because all the walls are broken up into short segments by doors and windows. So it was a good time to search the internet for those giant optical disc zipper binders and order two 300-disc holders. They arrived after about a month, because shipping from Shenzen just be like that, but we still hadn't moved because a bunch of unexpected snags in the renovation work at Knypplinge mean that it won't have running water and electricity until, like, the very last day of July (which is when our lease AND my MIL's possession of her flat both end).
Then it took me pretty much two entire evenings to put all the films (plus Cambridge Spies, which was accidentally miscategorized) in alphabetical order into one and all the tv (except Cambridge Spies) in alphabetical order into the other. These are each quite heavy, so I have a great deal of new respect for djs. Imagine sticking something like this in your carry-on luggage! Yikes.
[Oddly enough, in handling every optical disc we own, the pulp movie Army of Darkness wins hands-down for best disc design. See above.]
We also generated a tremendous quantity of plastic recycling and cardboard recycling from the ripped up box set boxes, too much to carry out to the dumpsters all at once. The only packagings we actually saved are Singin' in the Rain (because I need it frequently and typically keep it by my computer, not with the other DVDs on the shelf anyway), the LOTR extended editions, the three seasons of Star Trek: TOS which are genuinely Cool Design (see above), plus the glittery translucent pink plastic case from The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (see above), because it's the only translucent glitter pink DVD case I've ever seen and it's just too fabulous to toss.
In this case, we looked at the half bookcase dedicated to CDs and DVDs in little green boxes and decided they had too much mass and volume remaining.
A few years ago we had already taken what were formerly ~4 shelves of DVDs and put them in 9 small CD wallets, and ~4 shelves of CDs in little lidded boxes and replaced their plastic cases with individual envelopes (now 2 shelves' worth).
There were still so many box sets that they were threatening to overflow the two big bins I'd stuffed them in when we started using them infrequently. It seems likely that we won't have any good place in the new livingroom at our house for our big bookcases, because all the walls are broken up into short segments by doors and windows. So it was a good time to search the internet for those giant optical disc zipper binders and order two 300-disc holders. They arrived after about a month, because shipping from Shenzen just be like that, but we still hadn't moved because a bunch of unexpected snags in the renovation work at Knypplinge mean that it won't have running water and electricity until, like, the very last day of July (which is when our lease AND my MIL's possession of her flat both end).
Then it took me pretty much two entire evenings to put all the films (plus Cambridge Spies, which was accidentally miscategorized) in alphabetical order into one and all the tv (except Cambridge Spies) in alphabetical order into the other. These are each quite heavy, so I have a great deal of new respect for djs. Imagine sticking something like this in your carry-on luggage! Yikes.
[Oddly enough, in handling every optical disc we own, the pulp movie Army of Darkness wins hands-down for best disc design. See above.]
We also generated a tremendous quantity of plastic recycling and cardboard recycling from the ripped up box set boxes, too much to carry out to the dumpsters all at once. The only packagings we actually saved are Singin' in the Rain (because I need it frequently and typically keep it by my computer, not with the other DVDs on the shelf anyway), the LOTR extended editions, the three seasons of Star Trek: TOS which are genuinely Cool Design (see above), plus the glittery translucent pink plastic case from The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (see above), because it's the only translucent glitter pink DVD case I've ever seen and it's just too fabulous to toss.
