Please help me store my stuff...

[Gorilla726]

Hi. I'm having a bit of a dilemma. I have a rather large amount of gaming books and such items (no, that's not the dilemma). But, I can't figure out how to store my collection. In my apartment, I don't have room for a bookcase to hold my books. How should I store my books in a way that I can easily get to the books I need without digging through large piles of them? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

Gorilla

 

[Crothian]

Do you really need access to all of it? Boxing them up really saves room especially for the stuff you aren't using week to week. I have mine stored in the spare bedroom closet.

 

[Whimsical]

Look up. See all of that ceiling space? Half of your living space is being completely unused by anything. Just screw in many short bookshelves directly to the ceiling. Make your ceiling look like an upside-down Barnes & Nobles

More seriously, you can get some shelving from a Home Depot type store to add to many of your walls. Particularly the higher parts that are more dificult to reach. And they can be doubly useful in case you have or going to have toddlers who love to grab and manhandle and eat everything that you don't want them to.

 

[Krieg]

If shelves are not an option you can always buy some of the stackable plastic crates that just everyone sells these days. They look like slightly larger milk crates and are the perfect size for gaming sized books.

 

[Mean Eyed Cat]

Filing cabinets. Go to a thrift store and you can usually find them cheap. I picked one up for $10 at Goodwill and got the other one for free on a street corner (seriously). Get the two drawer cabinets and you can stick them in any closet.

 

[1upus]

Have the same problem and am using the stackable crates at the moment, but partner curses every time she sees them. Claims they are ugly and take up too much room!!

The ultimate that I would love to be able to afford is actually a set up I saw at an acquaintance's place. He has high 12-13 ft ceilings at his home and he managed to purchase these old library shelves from a demolition for a heap load of money. But they are those old fashioned floor to ceiling book shelves. Imagine 13ft worth of RPGs!!

 

[Blue Sky]

One quick and easy fix I've used is just to stack them on the floor in my bedroom. It sounds cheap, but if you make sure to vary the stack heights, it actually looks kind of cool.

Another cool idea that a buddy of mine used was to use 4-5 milk crates, but he'd stand them on end, then use them to hold up one of the folding card tables with the legs put up. The table was low enough to play comfortably, and the books were easy to access during the game.

 

[diaglo]

Hi. I'm having a bit of a dilemma. I have a rather large amount of gaming books and such items (no, that's not the dilemma). But, I can't figure out how to store my collection. In my apartment, I don't have room for a bookcase to hold my books. How should I store my books in a way that I can easily get to the books I need without digging through large piles of them? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

Gorilla

what games and/or editions are they?

if they are older editions i'd be willing to take care of them for ya.

heck if they are newer editions i'd take care of them too. i need some kindling for my fireplace.

 

[Salad Shooter]

Duct tape. Solves everything. Or better yet, cover your walls with velcro, and attach little pads on the books, and stick them to your walls. Show your proud RPG book collection as your (removable, and still useable) wallpaper! Barring that (though it would be cool), get one bookshelf for the stuff you're using fairly regularly, and then box the rest up (Make sure to label the boxes and organize their contents) and put them (in closet, under bed, in attic, on a high shelf in the basement, hide them in your walls, use them AS your bed...) Or, if you happen to be DM, say that you can no longer play at your house, so you have to play at one of your players houses, and then store them at that house for convenience. Or you could always scan them all into pdf (pretty sure it's legal if you own the books) and then store them ALL somewhere...heh..so much for me being much help..

 

[Bagpuss]

I keep most of mine in the garage.