h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

While I'm not necessarily someone with the patience of a saint, I'm not particularly prone to be driven by a need for immediate gratification, either. I've been known to make the occasional impulse purchase- but I frequently purchase online, after some thought, and opt for free shipping.

Well, we recently went way out to the northwest suburbs to IKEA to shop for some bookcases. We picked the ones we like, went home, and compared the costs of ordering online and having them delivered for $100, or renting a small moving van for $50 plus mileage and gas and then hauling them upstairs ourselves. We're getting six 72" Billy bookcases and a matching TV stand.

I placed the order weeks ago and we just received notice that our shelves have shipped to the freight carrier. They should be calling within the next week to schedule a delivery date.

I'm going nuts waiting!! We've been in the new place for two months now, and still have about two-thirds of the unpacking left to do. The third bedroom is entirely filled with boxes of stuff. I can't get to my rain boots, my rice cooker or my phone book. And K keeps taking DVDs out of boxes and then leaving trails of them all over the house. Putting them back in alphabetical order is going to be a chore.

Is it too much for a girl to ask to be able to put her stuff away properly?

our bookcases mostly came from friends and family, or the charity (thrift?) store. We did buy one from IKEA but it wasn't the one I meant to get, still at least we are unpacked.

Hope you get them soon!

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Living out of boxes would be bad enough. Knowing you have perfectly good rain boots in a box on the bottom of a stack behind countless other stacks, while you're trudging around with wet feet, is annoying.

Plus until we get the bookcases set up and loaded, I shouldn't buy any more new books. Or we'll just have more trails of stuff all over the place. The horror!!

Although having several half-empty boxes around (especially the one with the kitchen towels- they need to go into a dresser in the back bedroom, which is also behind stacks of boxes) does provide non-stop amusement for the cats.

You *do* need to buy one new book, pc - that one being Boneland by Alan Garner (it's tiny, 149 pgs in Hardback). Mine arrived yesterday, I've finished it.

Worth. Every. Penny. (even though A kept telling how many I'd spent when I turned a page because he was expecting an epic of George RR Martin standards)

Which reminds me, I must update sumat...

And I want to order different shelves for my kitchen- I am using the ones we used to keep in the pantry, but they're too deep for the spot they're in, so I want longer, narrower ones. But they're at the same place as the record crates, and if we get the record crates too soon before we can get to the actual cartons of records, we'll just have more stuff in the middle of the floor in this room...

The same store has the recycling bin I want- now we've moved to a larger building with more units, the city doesn't handle refuse pickup, and the landlord has not retained a company to pick up recyclables. I'll wait till we're here a little longer to see if we can drum up interest among the other tenants to pay for it. So we're having K take it to work every day and drop it in the bins there (or, on weekends, sneaking out after dark and dropping it in one of the neighbor's bins ). This store has a small, skinny bin with a handle that K could take back and forth in the car every day.

I'd really love to share some photos once we've got crap put away!

I can see why you're impatient for them to arrive, because I have a ridiculous addiction to books, and the ones still in boxes from my last move do niggle at me. There are some books, which the thought of damp getting to them scares me. And there are books that I packed at the bottom of boxes because of how infrequently I need them. So when I need to consult one, it's like a book explosion half an hour later.

started running out of space so I had to get myself a new Billybookshelf the other day. Unfortunately as I was getting it out of the boot I dropped it on the fingernail of the middle finger of my right hand.

Gruesome #2 and I will build it up today and sort the books into it

We've got two set up in the living room, with the TV cart, and filled with DVDs and playstation games. Also two in the middle bedroom (the room I'm in now, with the computer) filled with various books.

We still need to work on the back bedroom. We've decided to get one of those four-sided CD towers on a Lazy Susan type base, to save space. The remaining two bookcases can then be filled with VHS tapes and more books.

Hopefully we'll be all unpacked, and have the storage bins and one of the drum sets moved to a public offsite storage unit, by the end of the year.

Oh, and I've got the recycling bin I wanted. Just decided against the pricey metal kitchen shelves, and decided we'll pick up another, shorter Billy for that as well. This way all the shelves match, so if we move again in the future, we can mix and match.

I got one of the book cases I have here in Cal from the Ikea AS IS room here in Costa Mesa. I thought it was in perfect condition, but when I got it home I realized that the non-adjustable shelf in the middle of it had been put in backwards! I thought it would be easy to get the thing apart to put the shelf in right, but I was wrong. The thing is all glued together. I think it was a floor sample too. Says something that the Ikea staff can't put a floor sample together correctly. Don't know what it says, but it says something.

The other bookshelf I have here in Cal was outside of someone's house with a free sign on it. I wasn't planning to accumulate books here like I did in MN. I don't know what happened, but I really did end up needing another book case. And I am on the verge of needing another one but with no place to put it.

Ugh, we put one of the shelves in one of the Billy bookcases together wrong, but we didn't use any glue. The only tricky part was rotating the little round anchors that lock on to the screws just enough to slide the shelf out again. It was annoying, because it's not like we didn't pay attention to having the finished side facing the correct way, one of us just must have rotated it without it registering.

Easy mistake to make.