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Well, I have this cart available after, or while still, reorganizing my craft room.
Well, I have decided that it is great for my music.
I have my "tools" or accessories in the top drawer. When I am playing, the ones I will be using are placed on top.
The second through 4th drawers. are for the music books for each instrument.
2nd - cello
3rd - violin
4th - viola
It is on wheels. I just pull it to my chair and music stand when I play, and then put it back when I am done. Just thought I would share.
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it would take me one day to turn that into a disorgansied mess 🤣
I have a cart sorta similar. its more of a roll around laptop stand with a section that books can go in. its handy. i need to do a cleaning of what im not using. think youve inspired me for when i get home.
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I only have the books with music I am currently working on in the drawers. The other books are in my main storage place.
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oh its a great idea and I like what youve done. All im saying is i start out like that and lose control. i need to put stuff back in its hiding place. I have a cheap wooden bench thing that the seat raises up. basically a storage chest that has stuff i dont use all the time in it. some of the loose paperwork and atuff needs to be organised and put back THERE. 🙂
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I have a footstool that is hollow with a hinged lid. I lift that and toss things I need to keep and "plan" to put away later. Thing is, if I put them away, I won't find them if or when I need them, so they are better off just left in there. Once a year, I shred what I don't need.
I also have almost all the vards my kids have given me. I am glad I started putting the cards in there. I have the cards my sin gave me. I also out the drawings and "letters" my granddaughters have sent me inside it. They are there, and will not be misplaced. 😂
We will see how long the cart lasts. Everything gets mucked up eventually, for some reason. I think that that should not happen with this. 🤞
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@Mouse Good re-purposing of a neat cart.
I know when I want to organize something, I go looking for a "thing", and end up using something that is not its intended purpose.
I got a few of these magazine racks that I put sheet music in. 1st saw them on Amazon, and thought I could use them for music, but thought they cost too much.
But then I saw a refurbished one that was cheap, so I got it. Then went back at a later date and saw one that was "damaged" (a returned item), but it was just the shipping box that was damaged--doesn't have any damage on the actual rack. Got a few more that way, all undamaged except one with a small scratch on the back (who's looking at the back?).
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oh its a great idea and I like what youve done. All im saying is i start out like that and lose control.
@ABitRusty . . . and mine is already disorganized. Started out grouping stuff together, but then got those loose sheets of music, end up slipping them in. . .
Guess it's time to look for another "thing" 
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Sometimes you can find things like that stores that are closing, display cases, their storage units, etc. Sometimes, they overprice them, but you can get lucky.
I used one of those silverware drawer unit plastic dividers, screwed into the top of a cart similar to the above. It is great for tools when card making, sewing, etc. That particular unit Jer screwed the unit to just had a flimsy flat top and the silverware drawer divider was the perfect size for the top. The better one above came with a nice sectioned top.
The cart above makes it so much easier to get my things out for whatever instrument I am playing. When I am done with a piece, and starting a new, I take the piece I am done with out to the larger non-wheeled unit, and insert the new piece into the proper drawer in the cart.
I like the magazine style rack you are using.
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I've had plastic carts like in the OP's photos, but they tend to be too easily pulled apart. I'm gearing myself up to buy this pretty soon, as what I have is rubbbish. I like the magazine rack, but I wonder if it would only be suited to compendiums so that you don't have a vast number of books. If your pieces are all individually published, I suppose you go by composer. But nice wooden furniture like that can be expensive. I'd like a 1930s wooden roll-front filing cabinet, but they cost up to a grand here. This one is OK, but I don't want to spend that money, and they often have drawers missing.
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@Gordon Shumway I have a couple like the one you posted with the colored drawers. I keep getting sucked in. The runners for the drawers do not catch the lip of the drawers. Any amount of weight, even about 3 skeins of yarn, they do not stay on the track. They need a wider track ledge for the drawer and a wider lip on the drawer so it sits in that that ledge.
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@Gordon Shumway I have a couple like the one you posted with the colored drawers. I keep getting sucked in. The runners for the drawers do not catch the lip of the drawers. Any amount of weight, even about 3 skeins of yarn, they do not stay on the track. They need a wider track ledge for the drawer and a wider lip on the drawer so it sits in that that ledge.
Yep, they are total rubbish. In addition, they are bigger than A4 at the top, but taper to A4 at the bottom, and some music editions are bigger than A4.
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