Serendipity and containerization
Aug. 31st, 2025 09:40 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
walkitoutNo, not shipping containers. Sorry! I’m not rabbit holing on logistics; I’m engaged in a massive, all-encompassing decluttering spree, with a side helping of refining my travel organization. The former will be going on for one to two years; the latter is the result of extensive summer travel.
Universal segue here.
FB ads have always been kind of amazing. I know a lot of people have a lot of concerns about tracking and surveillance and privacy, but FB is basically me, only automated: eavesdropping on everyone’s conversations passively with zero intent, and occasionally injecting Helpful Advice (TM). I know people have concerns about FB, and believe me, I know that people have some real issues with me, but I can see the parallels and I love them. Because I’ve been spending a Truly Unholy amount of time on Lundia’s website trying to figure out how to set up a closet / 15 closets, it was inevitable that FB would start showing me closet related stuff, even tho I have many reasons to believe Lundia has zero tracking on its website. I mean, I was doing lots of research in other closet and closet adjacent systems to try to figure out how they did things so that I could reproduce them in a system whose components aligned with my values (no engineered wood, no particle board, no fibreboard etc.). Today, FB served up Modern Shelving. I don’t think I’m going to use Modern Shelving’s systems, because they are quite shallow as closets go, but there are a few closets that I might use them in, and I’ll also go look around for related systems. Hopefully, by exploring the Modern Shelving site, FB will go, oh, hey, she likes that kind of shit so let’s drown her in it. Bring it on, FB, bring it on.
Over on the travel organization side, I’ve been increasingly unhappy with my long-standing organizer bags for chargers and for the bag that contains everything else small that doesn’t go into the clear bag. I have a plastic bin (not one of the huge ones) with small purses and bags in it, and I keep looking through it hoping that something in there will work (which is great for decluttering, because if I decide over and over not to use something, it’s generally safe to post it on FBM and get rid of it). I have a couple small Tom Bihn bags in there that I kept concluding were too small. So when I was wasting time on reddit trying to figure out how the one baggers solve this problem, I realized, actually, are they really too small?
Answer: no, not actually. I’ll be working on that transfer later today.
Yesterday was really relaxing. I played Sliding Seas. Emptying the big bookcase and moving it to the garage was not per se relaxing, but getting it out the door sure was. (It’s completely gone now.) I also pulled out the Sunflowers lego kit and started putting it together. I got 2/3rds of the way through the thing, so it’s all just excruciatingly fiddly bits now. I’ll finish it today and we’ll either hang it in the dining room to cover up some patched wall so it doesn’t have to be touched up, or we’ll put it in the new bedroom. Maybe dining room for now, and new bedroom when it’s done.
Universal segue here.
FB ads have always been kind of amazing. I know a lot of people have a lot of concerns about tracking and surveillance and privacy, but FB is basically me, only automated: eavesdropping on everyone’s conversations passively with zero intent, and occasionally injecting Helpful Advice (TM). I know people have concerns about FB, and believe me, I know that people have some real issues with me, but I can see the parallels and I love them. Because I’ve been spending a Truly Unholy amount of time on Lundia’s website trying to figure out how to set up a closet / 15 closets, it was inevitable that FB would start showing me closet related stuff, even tho I have many reasons to believe Lundia has zero tracking on its website. I mean, I was doing lots of research in other closet and closet adjacent systems to try to figure out how they did things so that I could reproduce them in a system whose components aligned with my values (no engineered wood, no particle board, no fibreboard etc.). Today, FB served up Modern Shelving. I don’t think I’m going to use Modern Shelving’s systems, because they are quite shallow as closets go, but there are a few closets that I might use them in, and I’ll also go look around for related systems. Hopefully, by exploring the Modern Shelving site, FB will go, oh, hey, she likes that kind of shit so let’s drown her in it. Bring it on, FB, bring it on.
Over on the travel organization side, I’ve been increasingly unhappy with my long-standing organizer bags for chargers and for the bag that contains everything else small that doesn’t go into the clear bag. I have a plastic bin (not one of the huge ones) with small purses and bags in it, and I keep looking through it hoping that something in there will work (which is great for decluttering, because if I decide over and over not to use something, it’s generally safe to post it on FBM and get rid of it). I have a couple small Tom Bihn bags in there that I kept concluding were too small. So when I was wasting time on reddit trying to figure out how the one baggers solve this problem, I realized, actually, are they really too small?
Answer: no, not actually. I’ll be working on that transfer later today.
Yesterday was really relaxing. I played Sliding Seas. Emptying the big bookcase and moving it to the garage was not per se relaxing, but getting it out the door sure was. (It’s completely gone now.) I also pulled out the Sunflowers lego kit and started putting it together. I got 2/3rds of the way through the thing, so it’s all just excruciatingly fiddly bits now. I’ll finish it today and we’ll either hang it in the dining room to cover up some patched wall so it doesn’t have to be touched up, or we’ll put it in the new bedroom. Maybe dining room for now, and new bedroom when it’s done.