I Keep Losing My Shelf Pegs

We prefer real wood furniture but, due to need and limited budget, we purchased some press-board stuff in the past. It's heavy so removing the shelves makes it slightly easier to move. The problem is keeping track of the pegs that go in the sides to make the shelves adjustable. They fall out and are easy to lose.

For a move, I usually remove all the pegs for each cabinet, put them in a little plastic baggie and attach that to the cabinet handle with a rubber band. As soon as we decide where to put the cabinet, it's easy to put the shelves back in. The small bookshelf is more difficult because it doesn't have a convenient handle to hold the baggie. In that case, I usually just put the pegs with the contents of the bookshelf.


In this move, however, I'd already packed the baggies and the rubber bands by the time I got to the press-board furniture. I carefully gathered up all the pegs, put them in a container, and tossed them in a large box. Despite it being a small part of what was in the box, I still labeled it "Shelf pegs" to make sure I could find them. I kept seeing the label as we worked around the new house and was glad I'd be able to lay my hands on those pegs as soon as we made room to place the bookshelf and cabinets.


Last night, we decided it was high time to rebuild the dogs' bench. To do so, though, meant deciding how to arrange the entire living room and then moving boxes and stuff out of the way to do that. Of course, everything always takes longer than planned and we went to bed with an obstacle course of furniture, boxes, and miscellaneous stuff piled up around the dogs' bench. This morning I set to work placing furniture where it would go, unpacking the rest of the books and DVDs, and setting the room up nicely.

I decided where I wanted all the press-board furniture and gradually got it moved into place. Then I realized that I had no idea where the shelf pegs were. Suddenly, I couldn't remember what size the box had been, whether it was labeled kitchen or office or something else. With our rearranging the night before, I had completely lost track of it.

I checked unpacked box labels just in case I'd unpacked it. Nope. Looked through the tower of boxes in the office. Nope. The kitchen? Nope. Dang. I emailed my sweetie hoping he might remember. Nope.


I sighed and just put the shelves next to each unit and piled up the contents on the bottom shelf, hoping to eventually come across the shelf pegs before too long.

As I was moving the last two large boxes out of the way to vacuum before placing the chairs and coffee table where I wanted them, I noticed the bottom box was labeled "Shelf pegs". Yippee.


This bookcase looks so much better with the books arranged on shelves instead of piled up.


Now, does anyone remember where I packed my mind? I don't think I labeled the box very clearly...