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I’m Totally Shelf-Obsessed

March 28, 2011 By Dana White | 6 Comments

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containerize with shelves Totally Shelf-Obsessed at ASlobComesClean.com

Deciding on the perfect shelf for my daughter’s room led to a re-arranging/moving/exhausting-switching-out of shelving units all over the house.

I LOVE shelves.

Seriously.  They are my weakness.  Somehow, I’ve arrived at a point where I can accept that little containers will not solve my slob-problems, and that they’ll just end up as clutter themselves.

But somehow, shelving units still call out to me at garage sales and in Target flyers.  Even though they’re bigger, heavier, and much harder to get rid of than the little containers.  

So here’s the shelf-drama from the weekend.

I had an empty shelf out in the garage:

I needed something that wasn’t a black hole to replace the black-hole-toy-box (which had some shelf-like-qualities) in my daughter’s room.

The garage shelf didn’t work, so I decided on the shelf that was in my office.

I could find a place for everything on the office shelf, but needed another shelf for the books.

Which meant that I needed to get the above shelf out of the master bedroom, which was not really a big deal because I purchased a bigger shelf for the master bedroom back in January and it’s been sitting  in the middle of the floor (literally) since MLK Day when I put it together without any instructions.

The no-instructions part doesn’t really have any significance in this story.  I’m just bragging.

So, let’s count.  That’s:

  1. Crazy-heavy shelf from garage to daughter’s room.
  2. Evil toy-box from daughter’s room to entryway to wait for donation pick-up on Tuesday.
  3. Hutch from office to daughter’s room.
  4. Small shelf from master bedroom to office.
  5. Big no-instructions shelf from middle of master bedroom floor to back corner.
  6. Crazy-heavy shelf still sitting in the hall, waiting for me to decide what to do with it.

Plus all of the books going on and off with each move.

I was exhausted.

Totally Shelf-Obsessed containerize with shelves at ASlobComesClean.com

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  1. Samantha says

    March 28, 2011 at 7:42 pm

    I just love your blog. Hi it's Sam from My Endless To Do's (www.myendlesstodos.blogspot.com
    Just gave you an award. Check out my blog.
    Sam

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  2. Mary @ Giving Up On Perfect says

    March 29, 2011 at 12:59 am

    Oh my gosh, isn't that the way it goes?! I'm getting ready to do this same thing at my house. Hopefully it will only be a few shelving steps, but time will tell.

    Reply
  3. Virginia (Jenny) says

    March 29, 2011 at 1:17 am

    You…my friend…are shelfish. Heh heh

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  4. Nony the Slob says

    March 29, 2011 at 1:21 am

    And shelf absorbed.

    And shelf centered.

    Trying to be shelf aware.

    Really . . . I've got a million of them.

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    • Rebecca S. says

      February 18, 2022 at 4:36 pm

      ❤Love the puns!❤

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  5. nikki says

    June 20, 2015 at 9:12 am

    Nony,

    I think that hutch looks great in your daughters room. It has that cute little girls room look. I know this was forever ago but I hope you let the crazy heavy shelf go to the donation pick up too. Your blog is super inspirational to me. I am working my way through the archives and jumping up to clean every few posts.

    Reply

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