When considering how to organize and store your CDs, ask
yourself...
♦How
many CDs do I currently own? Naturally, this gives you an idea of whether you
need mega freestanding storage or just a small desktop organizer.
♦How many CDs do I
anticipate buying in any given year? You'll want to buy CD storage racks that
you can expand into with your collection if you just can't stop buying them. Or
else you'll need to trade the CDs you have to maintain your same size
collection year-round.
♦Where
do I most use my CDs? If you only listen to CDs while traveling in the car, then
store them in an auto CD organizer. If you listen to your CDs in your bedroom,
then look around at your space options there. Your best option might be just a
clear plastic storage bin that rolls under your bed. If you have many parties in
the family room, or other family members play the same CDs, you'll want to
see where you can fit a CD rack or CD cabinet in that room. And if you're
constantly backing up documents to CDs in your home office, you'll want a handy
desktop CD rack.
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♦Pictured to the left is the CD rack I keep on my desktop next to my
computer monitor to hold CDs to which I backup items on my computer hard drive regularly. I
can fit two slim size jewel cases (which hold the CDs in them and keep the
CDs free of dust too) in each slot. So if you use the slim size jewel cases you
can actually fit more than it says in the product description. This is the
20 CD Horizontal Rack - Black Steel
from Organize.com. This CD rack works better than a binder CD case for me
because you don't have to keep opening it (which is annoying if you're using the
CDs regularly), you don't need bookends to help you hold it upright as you do
with a binder or loose-leaf notebook with CD pages and you don't need to find a
tray or cubby hole nearby to stash it in. This CD rack fits perfect right next
to the computer monitor on your desktop, a crevice that's not used much anyway. |
♦Do I keep all of my CDs together and use them in the same
one place? It may be that you listen to motivational CDs in the car and music
CDs in your living room, in which case two different CD storage racks or CD
storage cases are needed.
♦Do I like the CD cases or is it important to me to keep the
CD cases? Some people don't. If keeping the CD cases is not important to
you, then you might be able to save space by storing some of your CDs without
cases in sleeves in three-ring notebooks on a shelf or in a
CD Binder, which has
pockets made for CD storage. (This one pictured is from Stacks and Stacks.)
♦When
you do decide what your CD storage needs are, then think about how you'll store
your CDs. Will you group and divide them by type such as motivational and music?
Or place them alphabetically by artist. Or group them further by type such as
classical music, pop music and soft rock music. Consider keeping CDs with the
same artist clustered together. Or just put your favorites on top and mix and
match the rest spontaneously.
Nobody should think too hard about their CD storage,
especially for music CDs. Just enjoy them. As for work-related CDs, if you can
find a particular CD when you need it quickly and easily, you've found the right
CD storage product for you. If you can't do so, look for a different CD storage
rack, CD binder, CD cabinet, etc., that's more appropriate for your amount
of storage space available and for your particular CD needs.
♦Here are a few more CD organizers
that you may like.
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