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| TOK:
I've been reading the forum for a while, and this was enough to get me to post my first message. I JUST went through your same problem, and I'm fighting a continuing battle against garage clutter. My problem is that I have a one car garage as my work area, but I also have a lot of hobbies. My cab-in-progress is sharing floor and workbench space with a mountain bike, a motorcycle, radio controlled airplanes, and various other small projects. The cab itself it pretty big and needs to be in the center of the room to work around it. I had to clean my garage to be able to even get it in there, and it was a big enough hassle that I figured it was worthy of mention on the build page. Things are under control now, I'm nearing the end of the main part of the build (just need to mount monitor), but I'm still fighting clutter. First time I dedicated a whole afternoon, subsequent times have been an hour or so. Its really a problem, because as you get into the build, you might start accumulating more stuff. I bought quite a few tools that I had to make room for in already packed cabinets and drawers. I suggest just considering the clean out part of the build. If it's old clothes and stuff in the way, just pitch or donate them. If you find yourself falling into the trap of just moving stuff to make room for more stuff, some major reorganization might be in order. I've thrown out the junk I don't need, hung the mountain bike on the wall, cleared out a corner where the dirt bike is "least in the way", and moved most of the airplane stuff out of the room. The major reorganization is now the is the stage I'm at, and it's going to be the battle of the century. ;D Tim - http://home.comcast.net/~tok/ |
| RayB:
8) Welp I managed to clear out an area around the soon-to-be-MAME'd cabinet, so now I've been measuring control panel layouts. WOOHOO! |
| big_garryb:
i had the same problem......the anwser????? USE the girlfriends mothers garage..... problem sorted. |
| CCM:
--- Quote from: Peale on July 02, 2004, 09:04:07 am --- --- Quote from: mmmPeanutButter on July 02, 2004, 08:39:48 am ---My name is Jonathan and I have a problem. I've been thinking a lot about all the stuf fI have and how I'm becoming more and more tied down to the possessions that I own (but I'm building a MAME cab, go figure). Anyways, I'm planning on getting rid of it all, but it's not easy. Peale, if you could reccommend only one of those books, which one would you reccommend? Or maybe, Book X is better for This and Book Y is better for this other thing... or something like that. I could use as much help as I can get. (I blame my parents - they're packrats too!) --- End quote --- Any of them are good, and I've only read "Clutter Free" (it's sitting in my bathroom right now!). I think that this one would be cool. And you can purchase it *with* the other book for a discount. --- End quote --- People actually need to buy books to learn how to clean up their junked up houses? Damn, I have to write a book and cash in on this... maybe "How to brush your teeth in 10 easy steps', or 'Getting Dressed for dummies'. Seriously though, if your place is that cluttered, throw some crap away and organize yourself. I don't think a cluttered house is a valid excuse not to do something. |
| SirPeale:
--- Quote from: CCM on July 20, 2004, 09:40:01 am ---People actually need to buy books to learn how to clean up their junked up houses? Damn, I have to write a book and cash in on this... maybe "How to brush your teeth in 10 easy steps', or 'Getting Dressed for dummies'. Seriously though, if your place is that cluttered, throw some crap away and organize yourself. I don't think a cluttered house is a valid excuse not to do something. --- End quote --- It's not learning how to get rid of stuff and throwing it away that's the problem, it's the emotional attachment that a lof of people (myself included) that people associate with 'stuff.' Case in point: a co-worker of my wife has a large tub filled with those cheap stuffed animals. It's stored in their garage. The tub of animals was given to her for her son to play with by her grandfather, who died about a year later. AFAIK the animals have never been played with, but she "can't" throw/give them away, because she loved her grandfather very much, and the emotional association is there. The books help you to get a perspective on that kind of thing. If you're not a packrat, the books really won't help you. After reading it, there was a lot of things I was just 'hanging on to' for a variety of reasons. I got rid of them. At first I thought I'd miss them somehow, but truthfully, I don't even remember what I got rid of. |
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