Tuesday, August 30, 2016

Self Storage Shelving

My wife and I are renting a storage unit while we spend ~7 months living in Florida. We are keeping a good amount of the stuff we do not need to take with us (but we would like to have when we finally have more permanent living quarters or a house) in a self storage unit.
We have done this before but found that we wasted a lot of vertical space and had to be very concerned with how things we stacked.
This time we bought a few Husky Steel Garage Shelving Units in order to better maximize our storage space and it makes a world of difference.
The shelves are 77 in. wide, 78 in. high, and 24 in. deep. Each shelf (when evenly spaced as here) is rated for 2,000 lbs. per shelf.


Monday, August 29, 2016

Knife Sharpening

I have had this Calphalon Contemporary 8" Chef's Knife since around fall 2008 when Linens 'n Things was undergoing liquidation and I decided to buy a chef's knife on sale while a college student. It is not a bad knife per se, it is just not a great knife, and you can probably do better by spending a little more (I currently have two Fibrox® Pro 8-Inch Chef's Knife and they are much better knives, but I digress). Within the first year of ownership of the Calphalon Contemporary 8" Chef's Knife one of the people I shared an apartment with put this big nick in the blade by cutting a spaghetti squash on a granite counter top with no cutting board (do not suggest).