Storage and Crafting

Ran across a piece of furniture for crafting on the Unclutterer blog today.  They didn’t know what to make of this piece of furniture.  It’s called the Original Scrapbox (warning: the site has videos.  With music.).  What do you think?

First of all, I was a bit irritated at the commenters.  If you don’t have a craft, you might not get why junk piles up, or why lots of compartments might be nice.  One person said “Having so much craft crap that you need one of these is awful.”  Yeah, doesn’t get it.  Another person said “these people with their crafts need places to put stuff” – which is understanding, but … “these people?”

So anyway, the lovely video at the site tells me this is for scrapbooking, but you can see that it would be good for any sort of craft that involves lots of small bits of things.  Sewing, for example.  I’m kind of divided on what I think.  I think the outside could use help.  I think that table is too small.  I think the size is overwhelming (though they do have a smaller version now called the minibox).   I think it’s pretty darn expensive at $1,295.

But on the other hand, I admit I struggle battle to keep my junk organized and put away.  I keep adding to my organization.  I have a lot of small bits I don’t know what to do with.  I can’t manage to keep anything safe from The Cat.  Plus I admit the problem will only grow -  I can’t throw perfectly good supplies out just because they’re cluttery.   Yet I can’t say I’m ready to put money like this toward a piece of furniture – nor am I quite willing to give up my miscellaneous organization things but …  I gotta say, the idea of having one compact, centralized, labeled place for everything that I can close up is NICE.

Tomorrow I’ll show you what I just did with my workspace, which is working out beautifully…