Don't you know the Dewey Decimal System?

[etherial]

rosinavs and I are entering a two-phase stuff organization plan. The first phase consists of buying and building shelving units and putting all of our stuff into bins on these shelving units. Phase I is already underway.

Phase II will be to label, organize, and arrange these bins in some sort of reasonable fashion. This begs the question: What sort of organizational scheme would be good for this? I'm envisioning something like the dewey decimal system where every bin gets a number: AB.CD where AB encodes the subject matter: fabric, yarn, crafting notions, camping gear, musical instruments, travel supplies, family mementos, spare bedding, etc. and CD is just a two digit bin number.

Anybody have experience organizing an arbitrary number of bins of things?

PS - Anybody in Mass have a geiger counter? We have recently been gifted some Steampunk jewelry and I want to know the radiation dosage.

Comments

[contradictacat.livejournal.com]

You will want to ask bleemoo about this. He likes cataloging. That said, organization systems seem to follow the rule of "If it works for you and you can find things reliably in it, go you!" especially since it's going to be for your own personal use.

Also: The way Dewey works is through decimal places- so if it's number ABC.XYZ, A means the general subject, B specifies further, C specifies even further, and XYZ just go into more detail about the item in specific. So for you, A could be Fabric, B could designate type, say, Satin, and depending on how far you want to go down the rabbit hole, you could have C for color or things like that.

re: If it works for you...

[etherial.livejournal.com]

Whatever blee (or anyone else suggests) will surely be modifed over time. I'm just trolling for ideas.