Several years ago, my friend Guy Hutchinson mentioned that he had a small set of shelves near the entrance of his mancave. The shelves weren’t large enough to display a large collection of items, and so he used it to display small collections or subsets of collections. He said he had a lot of fun rotating the items he displayed on the shelf. That sounded like a really fun idea to me.
I found these fun looking shelves on Amazon and bought them about three years ago. For three years they’ve sat in my closet in the Amazon box they arrived in. I don’t know why I never bothered assembling or installing them. I guess I was just waiting for the right day. I took the week off between Christmas and New Year’s, and somewhere during that break was the right day.
According to Amazon the shelves should take about 10 minutes to assemble, although I think it was closer to 30 minutes for me. Those estimates never take into consideration things like finding the right tools, stopping halfway through to make a sandwich, or crawling around on your hands and knees collecting all the screws you knocked off the counter.
I installed the shelves in the corner between my office door and the guest bathroom. The shelves came with 3 screws to mount to the wall, two on one side and one on the other, so they’re nice and sturdy.
In honor of the holidays, I loaded up the shelves with some Christmas-themed Star Wars figurines. There are five shelves and I only had four figures so I added a couple of Bumbles to the top shelf. I suppose if you squint a little he kind of looks like a Wampa.
The shelves have already been up for a couple of weeks and Christmas is over, so I suppose it’s already time to swap these figures out for the next collection.