A Place for Your Albums
Pet peeve number 39: having to move my music. Recently I began living in a new location, and I noticed that I had a lot of CDs (just under 400) and moving them was no easy task. Now that they are all contained in a vacant hutch I need to figure out a proper venue to showcase them all when company stops by. However, due to space constraints that is a lot tougher than I anticipated. What is a music geek to do?
I could leave the cases in the hutch and continue to use my CD binder for easy access to my music, but the hutch isn’t mine and will not be staying with us for long, so this is not a permanent solution. A year ago I started doing research on jewel sleeves, clever plastic compartments that hold CDs and album art in something one-fourth the size of a normal jewel case. I started thinking of the money I would drop and shelved the idea.
I had been walking through Target a week ago and found a jewel sleeve system from Atlantic that mirrored what I had seen the previous summer. I bought a storage shelf and some empty sleeves. I got home, assembled the shelf and noticed that the sleeves seemed to be crude plastic and could damage my albums. I have a solution but a problem remains: which sleeves to use?
The ease of the Target sleeves is great, but the other jewel sleeves have padding to protect albums; I’m torn. Target’s rough out to $.39 each, and others have a price change compared to the capacity you buy. This is no easy thing to consider, and I will do research so I can let you know my results. Have a good idea? Let me know.
