Pure Evil - Victor... the Cleaner

[Evil Avatar]

After months of wallowing in comic books, video games, pc games, DVD's and toys in stacks taller than Avatar Jr., I finally broke down and purchased two oak shelves for my home office.

This led to a 12+ hour ritual where I trucked everything out of my office, moved the shelves into my office, and then moved everything back (minus everything I could possibly live without).

The difference is light night and day. I knew there was a floor in here somewhere, I just hadn't seen it in a couple of years. I have all my paperbacks and hardcovers up on the two new shelves and all my PC games and Stephen King books on my old shelves.

Next week I still need to organize the office closet, which is filled with old computer hardware and comic books and that will give me space to get the last few items out of the office and properly stored away for future generations.

If your home office is starting to look like a bear den, I highly recommend purchasing shelves. It was worth the money and the time.

[ReaverX]

Sweet, I'm long overdue for more shelves myself. No pics?

[Pirate Of Doom]

I live in an apartment atm and my better half insists that i store away as much as possible into boxes and hide them in our storage room til the day we have a house and i can have my own aforementioned bear den...

[Evil Avatar]

Sweet, I'm long overdue for more shelves myself. No pics?

http://www.evilavatar.com/images/thumbs/office_02.jpg

New shelf number 1.

[Evil Avatar]

Sweet, I'm long overdue for more shelves myself. No pics?

http://www.evilavatar.com/images/thumbs/office_03.jpg

New shelf number two. You can see in the corner there, just above my gunbelt, that my closet is overflowing with hardware. That will be the project for next week.

[Evil Avatar]

It still looks a little cluttered from the above shots, but you have to kind of picture that all those books and games were just in stacks on the floor in that corner.

[Heretic Machine]

It's fun that I can identify some of those books...

[bapenguin]

http://www.evilavatar.com/images/thumbs/office_02.jpg

New shelf number 1.

I like how Wolverine guards the wedding picture.
Also...I think you need to go get a few more games. ;)

[Liquidize105]

Whoooa, look at all that stuff.

I'd say those shelves are looong overdue.

[zipR]

For those of you interested in going beyond shelves:
Do a google image search for cupboards, drawers, and chests. Keep the safe search on for the last one.

Looking at the first bookcase, Evil -- the one with the the elvis statue that needs a haircut and a manicure -- it looks like you have quite a collection of mass market paperbacks, all exactly the same size.

[Wadmaasi]

I did this about a month, month and a half ago. Packed up 3 bookshelves' worth of paperbacks (to the attic with you!), threw out a bunch of junk, relocated all the games etc. to more space-efficient storage, and rearranged the PC desk to make space for a good-sized wicker chair thingy + footstool for Mrs. Wad so she can read while I blow peeps up.

[bapenguin]

... to make space for a good-sized wicker chair thingy + footstool for Mrs. Wad so she can read while I blow peeps up.

This my friends, is the key to a happy marriage.

[agentgray]

Evil, you should read the book Getting Things Done. It's good for organizing or getting the clutter out of your life. :)

[Conner Dain]

Please continue to keep us up to date on everything that happens in your life. After all, it's perfectly relevant to gaming.

[Jetherik]

About time Evil! ;)

[Wadmaasi]

This my friends, is the key to a happy marriage.
It's been extremely pleasant. My wife would have the TV on anyhow, even if she were reading, so people shouting over TeamSpeak and explosions and what have you don't bother her in the least. Heck, when we were in college she'd study for finals while I played hours-long TRIBES sessions.

[Evil Avatar]

Please continue to keep us up to date on everything that happens in your life. After all, it's perfectly relevant to gaming.

I will, after all, this is Evil Avatar.com and I am Evil Avatar.

[bapenguin]

It's been extremely pleasant. My wife would have the TV on anyhow, even if she were reading, so people shouting over TeamSpeak and explosions and what have you don't bother her in the least. Heck, when we were in college she'd study for finals while I played hours-long TRIBES sessions.

Yeah, my soon to be wife is extremly cool with my gameplaying, she's been known to even watch me play some Halo 2 online down in the ol' theater. Usually at night before bed I'll be playing the PSP and she'll be reading a book before we turn out the lights. Good stuff!

[51|RandoM]

...or just have your collector gene surgically removed.

[Everlost_MI]

...or just have your collector gene surgically removed.
Does that really work? ;)

[TrackZero]

It's fun that I can identify some of those books...

Heh, yeah. I can see chunks of books that look identical to my own shelving.

Also good to see a shelf that can properly store novels, currently I have no place for them and they' just building up a pile in a corner of my room. My current shelves are just full of hardcover/graphic novels/larger books. Oh, and figurines of course.

Evil, what model of shelves are those for your paperbacks? Where did you get it?

[Evil Avatar]

Heh, yeah. I can see chunks of books that look identical to my own shelving.

Also good to see a shelf that can properly store novels, currently I have no place for them and they' just building up a pile in a corner of my room. My current shelves are just full of hardcover/graphic novels/larger books. Oh, and figurines of course.

Evil, what model of shelves are those for your paperbacks? Where did you get it?

If anyone is really curious about the books, I'm sure I can post some close up pix later or a list of titles and authors. (From the hardcover shelf, not the paperbacks, that would take a month to pull together.)

zipR is correct, the first shelf is full of mass market paperbacks, the first two shelves all from the same publisher, Leisure. Leisure has a horror book club where they will send you two horror novels a month for around $8.50 - including shipping. I find an astounding amount of really quality stuff in there and I'm never without a book to take to work because of that club, so I pay for every book they send me. (You only pay for what you keep.)

I got both shelves from a local place called "The Oak Store", which I think is a local franchise. The storefront just up the street was going out of business and needed to be out by the 15th of this month. That is why the two shelves do not match. :)

Mrs. Avatar got two really great shelves, one large and one small, that do match and they also match a small bookshelf that her sister just recently gave us.

These are solid oak shelves, so I imagine they would be pretty expensive if you didn't get them at a going-out-of-business sale.