Project Housekeeping I

It's reached that point where we've already cramped our room way past acceptable limits (that is, mum has started threatening to throw away stuff whenever she cleans the house) - so if we want to buy new books or CDs or such we'll have to clear up some of our current stuff.

So we start with our CDs.

Some time ago we'd transferred our CDs from their jewel casings to a...whatchacallit, a CD album? Purposely bought the 24-CD capacity ones too, not too big and not too small. Of course, the last time we did that was...3 years ago. We'd picked up more CDs since then.

'Course, with our car radio on the funk (and being a tape deck player for that matter), and us listening to our music through the iPod, CDs we own tend to feel very sad and unwanted. There you are, created to be played, you bide your time on the shelves of music stores, one day we walk in and choose you and you're excited! We bring you home, we slip you out of your casing...then we rip off the tracks into mp3 format, sync 'em onto our iPods and we then proceed to forget all about you. Don't think we don't hear you all weeping silently feeling unwanted.

Goodness. We'd just anthropomorphized CDs. Can this get any more wrong?

Anyways. Now we know, we just know that we've a fair stack of CDs to clear up. So why is it that when we go a-huntin' for them, we can't find them? All right...Futuresex/Lovesounds is with lad...how about It Won't Be Soon Before Long? And where's the Spice Girls Greatest Hits CD?

Right. We'll better check who has what. It can't be that mum has started trashing our CDs already (although we know she's been rearranging them whenever she cleans the house sigh).

So begins the CD Housekeeping. All CD covers goes into a nice brown Strikt CD box, nicely arranged into three categories: Pop, Soundtracks, and Miscellaneous.

Right. Now. Just how are we gonna organize the CDs? We've two albums - one for pop and such, the other for the whole mix of soundtracks and classicals. That's the easy bit. Here's a taste of the hard bits.

Will we arrange them alphabetically?
Or arrange them according to preference - favourites taking front pages while least listened take backseat, a la Nanny Ogg and her whole slew of family photos?
What happens when we go buy more CDs? We'll have to rearrange the CD arrangements again!

As it is currently, Pop'n'Such is alphabetized, while Soundtracks'n'Classicals is according to preferences. And we're gonna get a couple more albums.

Next housekeeping project should probably be the bedroom corner.