Please help me store my stuff...

[WayneLigon]

1. Your local comic shop should sell or be able to get magazine-sized comic boxes. They're sturdier than the boxes you can get from Office supply places and keep things in a nice single line. You can get them in long and short versions, and they all have lids. They could be stacked and labeled.

2. Get a mini-storage room at one of the many 'mini-warehouse' places available. Lock-n-Store is what I used for a long time; they are climate and humidity-controlled and they spray regularly for bugs. In four years I never once found a bug in amongst my stuff, and the stuff never had that 'damp' feeling.

3. Get some books from Home Depot and build your own floor-to-ceiling bookshelves bolted and fitted to the wall. Simple and as attractive as you are capable of. For the big bucks, barristers (aka Lawyer's bookshelves, with the little glass fold-up doors).

4. Sell everything you have not used in five years.

5. Look in one of the many 'home/closet organizing' magazines or get an estimate from a professional home organization service.

 

[Jonny Nexus]

I see a lot of good suggestions here, but many of them won't work depending on why this statement is true. Gorilla, why specifically do you not have room for a bookcase?

That sounds really weird, and I can't think of many storage options (apart from the suggested shelves by the ceiling, or in boxes/piles) that fit the bill as you've described it.

Details, man, details!

Yeah, I was trying to work that one out. Surely if you don't have room for a bookcase, then you wouldn't have room to stack of boxes either? :\

 

[Jonny Nexus]

I have at least that much. Seriously. Maybe as much as 20 feet, and that's just counting books, and not Master Maze, miniatures, and so on. My friends call my collection the "Wilder Library."

Well I can't beat you on the height, but I might be able to take you on the width...

That's 44 metres of shelving in total. I'm very proud of it. It's just a shame about the rest of the house (which is a total dump).

On a slightly more relevent note, fitted shelving like this is a much more efficient use of space than free-standing book shelves.

 

[Salad Shooter]

That's 44 metres of shelving in total. I'm very proud of it. It's just a shame about the rest of the house (which is a total dump).

Are those ALL gaming books?

On the topic...if you don't have room to put your books...either rearrange the place to make them fit, get rid of things you don't want anymore so the shelves/books will fit, live with the books all over (Hey! About a whole bunch of small things spread about the apartment?), or, as a last resort, sell off unused books in your collection

 

[Jonny Nexus]

Are those ALL gaming books?

Actually, none of them are I'm afraid. Those are all just various paperbacks (fiction and non-fiction). I'm very into collecting books. The *gaming* books are in a couple of metal shelving units in my spare room.