| | | | | | Tuesday, November 14, 2006 |
another work entry (with pictures!)
| | SO! We FINALLY got in our Dr. Seuss spinner (the spinner that we were supposed to get in in July, just arrived this afternoon). This means that I spent all of tonight moving everything around! We'd been waiting for this spinner because the whole layout of kids depended on us freeing up the old bay of Dr Seuss. Here's what I did:
This is my department before the move
I put all of the dr seuss titles on the spinner, and the titles that didn't go on the spinner are now in picture books under seuss. I cleaned the 84" bookcase that used to hold dr seuss, then moved all of Preschool (previously a 60" bay) to their new home. I also found out that we needed 3 fence fixtures (see diagram below), but no one could find them, so I stole one from the Disney section (we've got sound stories out the wazoo now with no place to put them, oh well). Now all of our Chicken Socks is crammed into that one fixture (Chicken Socks is the little kids version of Klutz, you remember Klutz, all of those 'fool proof' kids kits). I took out the shelves on the old preschool bay and had Ben get me down a slat rack (see diagram below). Then I compacted our two 84" audio bays (that were -packed- mind you) into ONE 84" bay, it took some jiggling and some overstock but I got 98% of the items on display. I took another slat rack from the old audio bay and put it ontop of the one I had just put in preschool (that was really really hard, they have all these complicated hooks that fasten them to the shelf, and they are also really heavy, 4' wide and 3' tall) and then set up Toddler Activities (which were mostly the soft books from an old endcap).
In the old audio bay I set up the proper shelving for Discoveries (bargain nonfiction books really). This is what I spent eight hours of my life doing
Diagrams:
I ALSO changed over the stepladders and stickered everything.
None of this would have happened if I hadn't had Gayle working in Kids doing everything I couldn't do (namely shelving all the new product and helping customers on the floor), I kept thanking her, and now she thinks I'm a freak, but whatever.
I'm terribly proud. Or as I told Jeff, "I was really productive, which makes me very happy, which is sad, but it's okay." He thought that was very amusing.
Good night!
PS like my little renderings? As I was doing them I felt like I had become my father, he could never tell my mother anything about his various jobs without sketching for her. He has covered perhaps a small orchard's worth of napkins illustrating various aspects of houses.
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