Dude, what's holding those platforms up? Fleas?
The tube is a cardboard concrete form, so I cut holes just big enough to fit the corner of board, then used liquid nails on the inside and a couple of L-brackets on the outside. They've gotten a bit floppy over the course of a few years, though....
The funny thing is that I only had to buy the tube and the glue. Everything else was stuff I had pack-ratted away...
The key is to be realistic about what you will actually reuse.
My grandmother fails at that...
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I'm not looking forward to cleaning that house out when she an my grandfather pass on. I emptied the living room while she was in rehab after a surgery and it took 4 dump loads in my truck and 2 to Goodwill.
My poor granddad, he hates it.
That place is amazing MrPickins; stuff to look at everywhere. It looks like some of the better junk shops I've been to. You have to stand in one place for minutes just to take it all in :^D
As a kid I used to spend summers with my grandparents, and my twin sister and I would go digging for neat stuff in the back rooms.
It's amazing, even though we did a good job covering our tracks, the next summer there would usually be a note left in the area we had last picked through asking us to stay out of her stuff.
How she knew we were back there still puzzles me...
You'd be surprised how "orderly" the clutter can be sometimes; I'm a packrat and my family always tells me to clean stuff up but with rare exceptions I can usually find what I need amongst the piles. For example, I have magazines and paper/documents on one bookshelf row and books on the other side. I keep any important diplomas/certificates in that vicinity so if I need to check my diploma, it's there.
Granted my clutter hasn't risen to the level of hoarding (I can still see the hardwood floor and move), but what seems like clutter to most people is "orderly" to me, as long as I'm the one responsible for managing it.
Why the hell would you need to keep your diploma on hand to check it?
Did I graduate? I can't remember!