{"id":22187,"date":"2013-03-05T15:03:20","date_gmt":"2013-03-05T21:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=18637"},"modified":"2016-09-19T18:35:51","modified_gmt":"2016-09-19T15:35:51","slug":"walmart-scavenger-hunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/walmart-scavenger-hunt\/","title":{"rendered":"Walmart Scavenger Hunt"},"content":{"rendered":"

My latest Walmart list was very eclectic, so I knew it would take a lot of time to fill. I decided to wait until I had both the time in an afternoon to go and wander and the need to get out of the rig. This afternoon was the day; the pantry was very bare!<\/p>\n

I spent over an hour wandering the aisles trying to figure out where things might be. Hardware? Toys? Electronics? Cleaning Supplies? I found all but two things, a little cabinet for the office and matches, which were not in the camping supplies. So I’m stumped and wonder if Walmart carries any. I don’t mean the flimsy cardboard kind smokers use, but sturdy wooden ones for lighting fires.<\/p>\n

One thing I did find surprised me, a three-drawer cabinet that was almost exactly the right size to put in an overhead cabinet in the study to hold paper supplies:<\/p>\n

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I wish it was just a little wider to hold the legal sized file folders, but this was a nice find, and was just $12.<\/p>\n

I decided to head to ACE Hardware to see if they might have a hardware cabinet for my office. Office desktop drawers are not the right dimensions for what I had in mind and crazy pricy, hence my thought to look at a hardware store. I’ve been storing my supplies like pens, Post-It notes, and highlighters in my desk drawers, which is a really poor use of space. I never know what I have, so I tend to overbuy.<\/p>\n

I had a vision of a desktop shallow, long, and low cabinet with tons and tons of drawers exactly the right size for all my supplies.<\/p>\n

Kind of like this:<\/p>\n

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The drawers are about an inch too short for writing implements, but I can store those things diagonally. Everything else fits perfectly. There wasn’t a single thing I wanted to store in it that doesn’t fit and I even have room for things that I didn’t think would fit (like my stapler). I screwed it to the wall. On a less windy day (ha ha ha ha) I am going to remove all the drawers, take the casing outside, and give it a couple of coats of dark brown paint.<\/p>\n

(Thank you Mr. ACE Hardware guy who got the dang thing off a very high shelf and provided a variety of office supplies to test the dimensions while making me feel like a valued customer.)<\/p>\n

Now, I have room in my desk drawers for my headset, label maker, scanner, and a bunch of other stuff. This little cabinet was $20 very well spent and is a good use of desktop real estate space!<\/p>\n

While at ACE, I remembered to have the truck key copied so that I have a spare… but I forgot the matches. Dang!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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