CD storage solutions

[uffeviking]

Please remind me again how many CDs fit in each drawer? Also, link please? 

Here it is, George! The price might scare you, but I figured out how much money I had wasted over the years buying one unsatisfactory gismo after the other, I came out ahead!

http://www.can-am.ca/cdvideo.htm

[karlhenning]

And those prices are not $Canadian, right?

Shee!  You'd have to be unemployed in Finland to be able to afford those 

[George]

Here it is, George! The price might scare you, but I figured out how much money I had wasted over the years buying one unsatisfactory gismo after the other, I came out ahead!

http://www.can-am.ca/cdvideo.htm

Thanks! 

[Anne]

I have a friend who had bookshelves and drawers built the full length of his family room (12ft I'm guessing).  The CD's went in the drawers.  The whole thing was made of wood.  I thought it was a good way to solve the problem of having to dust the CD's.

[Larry Rinkel]

I have a friend who had bookshelves and drawers built the full length of his family room (12ft I'm guessing).  The CD's went in the drawers.  The whole thing was made of wood.  I thought it was a good way to solve the problem of having to dust the CD's.

I've done something similar, using Ikea kits - their Bonde model, which unusually for Ikea actually looks fairly good. Each of the 4 bookcases is about 84" high and 26" across and has 8 13"-square cubicles. In each bookcase I assembled and mounted 8 drawers, each of which holds about 40 CDs (thus a total of 32 drawers holding about 1280 CDs). The remaining cubicles are used to store LPs (remember them?) and large scores. A central unit holds the TV, VCR, and DVD player, with additional room for CDs. The whole assembly is about 13' across and each of the 5 units is bolted to the wall to prevent toppling. Unfortunately I now have more CDs than will fit in the drawers, and I can't build additional drawers because the company has changed the design of the knobs. (And it was a lot of work to assemble the bookcases, assemble the drawers, and mount the drawer guides and drawers.) So I have to store the overflow elsewhere.

[uffeviking]

And those prices are not $Canadian, right?

Shee!  You'd have to be unemployed in Finland to be able to afford those 

Those prices are Canadian, as far as I remember. Be honest, how many different storage permutations have you bought, lets say, during the past five years without solving your storage problem permanently?

Of course you can buy a cheap dresser with drawers the size of your CDs and use it. Any way you go: drawers are the solution, not flat space-devouring shelves. 

[Philoctetes]

I rarely if ever keep jewel cases or booklets. So that cuts down on my storage quite a bit.

[uffeviking]

I rarely if ever keep jewel cases or booklets. So that cuts down on my storage quite a bit.

I hope you'll never plan on supplementing your income by selling your surplus at amazon or eBay! 

[Philoctetes]

I hope you'll never plan on supplementing your income by selling your surplus at amazon or eBay! 

I never sell my cds. I tend to give them away when I no longer wish to listen to them.

[Guido]

Why get rid of the booklet?

[Philoctetes]

Why get rid of the booklet?

After I read through it once, and have taken what notes I care about from it. I have no practical use for it.

[Steve]

After I read through it once, and have taken what notes I care about from it. I have no practical use for it.

What about timings?

[Philoctetes]

What about timings?

They don't concern me.

[johnQpublic]

Those prices are Canadian, as far as I remember.

Uh..no, See copy of pricing page below:


The following prices are quoted in US funds. Click Here for Canadian Prices. Freight charges are additional
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MODEL Info. PDF Description / Dimensions     (Click Here for Metric dimensions)  Weight Price

Drawer Cabinets   (Available with or without locks)
MC2D14    2 Drawer Cabinet
37-3/4"W by 14-1/2"H by 20"D - 6" High Drawers 70 lbs $429
MC3D20    3 Drawer Cabinet
37-3/4"W by 20-1/2"H by 20"D - 6" High Drawers 95 lbs $539

[RebLem]

Is this link correct?

Well, DUH, no, of course not.  I corrected the original, but let me correct it here, too   :
http://www.racksandstands.com/CD-and-DVD-Storage-C14.html

[George]

Well, DUH, no, of course not.  I corrected the original, but let me correct it here, too   :
http://www.racksandstands.com/CD-and-DVD-Storage-C14.html

Thanks! 

[Mark]

Hunting around in an effort to find reasonable quality, reasonably priced CD storage solutions to prevent my precious collection from ruination at the hands of my even-more-precious daughter once she's mobile, I came across the appropriately named Opus Oak range from Next (a UK high street and catalogue retailer). At £55 each and holding 280 CDs a piece, I think three of these (atop which I can stack boxed sets far back enough towards the wall to keep them from the reach of tiny fingers) will do me fine for the coming months. They're not overly tall, either, so little risk of them toppling upon my child - and the drawers look ripe for fitting with child-locks. A solution at last?

[Solitary Wanderer]

Hunting around in an effort to find reasonable quality, reasonably priced CD storage solutions to prevent my precious collection from ruination at the hands of my even-more-precious daughter once she's mobile, I came across the appropriately named Opus Oak range from Next (a UK high street and catalogue retailer). At £55 each and holding 280 CDs a piece, I think three of these (atop which I can stack boxed sets far back enough towards the wall to keep them from the reach of tiny fingers) will do me fine for the coming months. They're not overly tall, either, so little risk of them toppling upon my child - and the drawers look ripe for fitting with child-locks. A solution at last?

This looks sturdy 

[Mark]

This looks sturdy 

Indeed. But very, very ugly.

[Solitary Wanderer]

Indeed. But very, very ugly.