Wah, Wah, Wah, cont...
Mar. 21st, 2018 07:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thisnewday So yesterday, I spent a considerable amount of time doing one of my least favorite jobs, cleaning and drying piles of 4x4 containers with hard-to-reach corners--otherwise called parts bins. But, by the end of the day, I had 72 of them in place on my benchtop shelf units with an additional 10 of the larger ones cleaned and boxed up to be held in reserve.
With that accomplished, I began cutting new labels to place in the holders that are molded into the front of each bin. That part of the job, I finished up this morning before starting the process of filling the bins and writing the labels. For awhile, it was kind of fun with the spic 'n' span red bins and their crisp white labels arrayed in front of me.
But then, as I began to clear the tables and other work spaces of their clutter, it became more like work again. And pretty soon I was down to another of my least favorite jobs, the gathering and sorting of all manner of small, miscellaneous hardware items, mostly fasteners.
The trick, at that point, is to logically group things so that you've got, say, several like items of different sizes in the same bin while bagging and labelling them individually so they can be readily identified when needed. Which, I'm guessing, could be a continuing project of several days duration.
However, with probably a third of the bins partly filled, the two work benches are already looking quite impressive. They're looking like, uh, work benches with large, open surfaces where, well, work might actually be done.
Without, you know, hurting oneself by falling headfirst into the clutter...
LPK
Dreamwidth
3.21.2018
With that accomplished, I began cutting new labels to place in the holders that are molded into the front of each bin. That part of the job, I finished up this morning before starting the process of filling the bins and writing the labels. For awhile, it was kind of fun with the spic 'n' span red bins and their crisp white labels arrayed in front of me.
But then, as I began to clear the tables and other work spaces of their clutter, it became more like work again. And pretty soon I was down to another of my least favorite jobs, the gathering and sorting of all manner of small, miscellaneous hardware items, mostly fasteners.
The trick, at that point, is to logically group things so that you've got, say, several like items of different sizes in the same bin while bagging and labelling them individually so they can be readily identified when needed. Which, I'm guessing, could be a continuing project of several days duration.
However, with probably a third of the bins partly filled, the two work benches are already looking quite impressive. They're looking like, uh, work benches with large, open surfaces where, well, work might actually be done.
Without, you know, hurting oneself by falling headfirst into the clutter...
LPK
Dreamwidth
3.21.2018
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Date: 2018-03-23 05:54 pm (UTC)I like your statement "it became more like work"... odd how that happens lol.
Sometimes when I get all my parts and pieces sorted, I don't get anything made because I don't want to make a mess.
Raining again, so it's knitting and baking cookies for me.
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Date: 2018-03-23 07:38 pm (UTC)Hahaha, so funny--and so true--about reluctance to "make a mess" after sorting. However, once the mess-making has commenced, I'm REALLY good at that. Sort of like that floating trash heap that's supposedly 2X as big as Texas and 3X as big as France, lol.
Yay for the rain, right? Thing is, I hate it when you bake cookies. Because, if the wind is just right, I can smell them but I can't reach them. It's just crewel. (Knitting joke, lol.)
Hope you have a great afternoon!
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Date: 2018-03-23 09:13 pm (UTC)no subject
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