Furniture!

     I'm presently busy replacing my bedside cabinet.  I had an inexpensive one with an engineered-bamboo frame and cloth-over-cardboard drawers.  It bordered on being too flimsy, despite added stabilizing pieces, but the worst problem was that Holden the cat found the fabric irresistible for scratching, far superior to his scratching post. Despite corrugated-carboard guards, he managed to demolish half of one drawer front.

     So when I found a slightly larger cabinet that appeared to be exactly as wide as the space between my bed and my bedroom bookshelf, I bookmarked the page and kept returning to it for a couple of months.  Eventually, my disposable income was far enough ahead of the (inexpensive) price and I bought it.

     It is all pine and arrived as a flatpack, with eight drawers to assemble and a lack of pilot holes for the screws.  I improvised a corner clamp and built it over the spare time of several days off, and today is installation day!  It is an exact fit to the space, and so far, I have been able to get my Kindle/iPad Mini boom (the base takes a 7/8" hole, easy enough with a brace and old-fashioned bit) and outlet strip installed, wires rerouted, and I'm sorting through the contents of the old drawers.  There's enough extra room that I can get all my only slightly defunct eyeglasses and spare clip-on sunglasses in one drawer -- important, because I rarely buy new frames: they're expensive and the kind of 1930s/40s wire frames I prefer go in and out of fashion these days, most often "out."  Also important because I lose track of the clip-ons in their anonymous black cases when they are scattered over my desk, dressing table and elsewhere.

     So far, I'm a wireless keyboard or two ahead, plus my spare pocketknife (needs repair), a couple of flashlights and a set of wired earbuds.*  I think my Freewrite Traveler will find a home in this cabinet, too.
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* I have used a number of storage solutions for corded earbuds and while the various cute cord-winders and cases are nice, the best way to store and carry them is in a medium-sized prescription pill bottle.  It protects them and keeps dust out; it can bounce around in your purse or briefcase, glovebox or desk drawer, and they're ready when you need 'em, as good as the day you packed them up.  You can hank the wires up neatly or just stuff 'em in the bottle.