If you’re like me, you have a heavy-duty kitchen, ready for all recipes, dishes and situations, with plenty of room for prep and lots of pots and pans. It’s a busy environment with plenty of need for some tough, REALLY tough shelves. Well, I’ll give you some sage advice: invest in the toughest shelves you can afford. The tougher the better. Because your kitchen is going to become a whirlwind tornado of activity and bowls and splattering of food and cans and boxes of raw material (if you cook at home). And equipment, lord knows you’re going to need shelves for your kitchen equipment. Well, that equipment is heavy, so you’re going to need the best, and the toughest. How about a wire shelving unit that can handle 4000 pounds? That’s right, 4000. Four THOUSAND.

This Heavy Gauge Shelving Kit - 4000 lb. Capacity is a triumph. I found it over at StacksAndStacks.com while looking for new and innovated shelves. Mission accomplished. It holds 800 lbs (evenly distributed) per shelf! This Shelf Unit is tougher than anything I’ve found in a Garage Shelf, or a Closet Shelf, or a Wall Shelf, or even a Bookshelf. It’s one tough customer. But wait, now that I think about it, it COULD work for them as well! The metal shelves would be great for the garage for tools and paint cans, pitch-perfect in the pantry, and lovely in the living room for your tv and dvds! Each kit comes with five 18″D wire shelves, which are fully height adjustable, and four 72″ poles. 4000 pounds. Man alive, that’s a tough shelving system.

The Heavy Gauge Shelving Kit - 4000 lb. Capacity. Highest Possible Recommendation.

I spend an inordinate amount of time playing board games. I believe that playing games is certainly not a recreation that should be remanded to the sealed vault of a distant childhood, rather game-playing is a healthy activity that strengthens the mind, sharpens reaction time, and improves eye-to-mind concentration. I prefer the classic games of my youth; colorful and witty games played on delightful cardboard mats; most of them created by Parker Bros. (no relation or I’d have a bigger house). These games are just as valid as, say, a New York Times Crossword as far as improving and exercising the intellect goes. I tend to sharpen my talent for mental winning even further by playing these board games with only one player. But the crux of my dilemma is space: I have far too many board games. What to do?

I definitely found the solution. Most of my days are spent thinking about Shelves, but somehow it didn’t occur to me that I should find a perfect shelving system specifically for my board games. Should I trust them to a Laundry Shelf? Perhaps a safe corner of a Kitchen Shelf? There are always plenty of ideas regarding Closet Shelves. Even a Bookshelf might work wonders. But finally, I settled on a Garage Shelf to store my games. Over at the website StacksAndStacks.com, I found and installed a terrific Garage Shelf that really fits the bill. Called the Overhead Garage Storage Shelf, this shelf is is adjustable from 16″ to 28″ high, with a surface area of 3′x 3′! That’s a great way to keep a whole lot of games all in one place.

The Overhead Garage Shelf keeps things up and out of the way, really helps to optimize my garage, and with it’s powder coated white steel, it easily attaches to the roof truss in the ceiling of garages or large walk in closets. Luckily I still have a VCR, because the shelf includes an instructional video, and it also carries a lifetime warranty, which is great piece of mind. Mouse Trap, Operation, Clue, Monopoly, Scrabble, Sorry, Candyland, Chutes and Ladders… I can pack as many games up there as I need to, because the Overhead Garage Shelf holds up to 250 lbs of evenly-distributed weight! I feel almost petty discussing my favorite benefit, but blogs are a place to share, so I’ll share: the shelf height is such that kids can’t reach the games. They can’t. Which is great, because I like to keep my vintage games MINT.

The Overhead Garage Storage Shelf. Highly recommended.

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