Wall of CDs
Even in this age of iTunes and MP3 stores, I still prefer to buy my music on CDs. There’s just something about opening a box, unwrapping a CD, reading the liner notes, and having that shiny silver disc to hold. Not that I don’t load all my CDs into iTunes for easy access from my computer and my iPod, and I certainly buy a few individual tracks from iTunes or the Amazon MP3 store. But most of my music is on CDs. And I have a lot of music, creeping up on 750 CDs at last count.
Because of space issues, those CDs were scattered around the room on 4 different CD racks, kinda sorted but not well enough to find half of what I was looking for when I went looking for something. So last weekend, after moving the 40 gallon tank that used to sit between the door and my favorite CD rack, I went looking for a 2nd shelf just like the one I already had. I was quite disappointed to find that it had been discontinued by the manufacturer, and had been gone long enough that no one had any stock in stores or online. So I headed to my favorite online organizer stores looking for something new. Everything I found was either too tall, too wide, or too expensive. Or all three. Until late Monday night, browsing through Amazon’s media storage section one more time, I spotted a familiar picture. That’s right, someone was selling the shelf I wanted! The name and model number were wrong, but the picture and the dimensions were right, and most importantly so was the price. So I crossed my fingers, and ordered from what appeared to be a close-out seller on the Amazon Marketplace.
My shelf shipped the next day, and though FedEx did their best to destroy it, it arrived undamaged on Friday. Yesterday I unpacked it, vacuumed up the 15 million bits of styrofoam from the packing material before the kitties ate them, and put the new shelf next to the original shelf. Then I dragged over the box of CDs that lost their home when I had to move the desk, and started unpacking and arranging and re-arranging.
I still need to re-organize a little more, but I have a lovely wall of CDs to enjoy now:
And now if you’ll excuse me, I must go visit the Amazon CD store to fill those empty shelves.