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

[bleemoo.livejournal.com]

The rumors are true, I do hope to be a cataloger one day when I grow up. Having said that... designing a catalog for someone else's stuff can be difficult. If you wanted to sort your books, I could give you some advice on that. For something like "stuff," given the lack of pre-existing systems, you really need to build something from the ground up, and it will work much better for you if you design it based on your preferences and desires. Your basic idea seems to make sense. If you have an excessively large amount of stuff, you may need to modify it to keep it from getting too cumbersome (i.e., if you have 23 bins of fabric, you may want to subdivide the fabric somehow), but the idea is sound. If you have specific questions I'd be happy to ponder them.

re: 23 bins of fabric

[etherial.livejournal.com]

Not yet. But we have neighbors at over 75 bins of fabric.