Originally Posted by
KonAaron Snake
When Dave Stoller grew up, he kept spread sheets and put his bills in a filing cabinet...perhaps you mean Peter Pan?
They can be updated easily and from time to time - it's nice to know what I have. It's also interesting to see how I view fluctuations over time. If you find it "Dave Stoller" to buy a campy umbrella clamp when you already have one, great. I think it's incredibly stupid, a waste of money and I find it useful to have an easy repository of what I have. It also gives me a fast place to look if there are trade offers, or WTBs, or to quickly check what I can part with if I need fast bike funds. It's fine if you don't find it useful, but obviously some here do.
I think organiztion and effective storage that is easy to visually scan is the way to go. It may be in the database, but can you put your hand on it? Opening a flat file (those work really well and out of date now technically) and finding it straight away is pretty pleasurable.
After my organizing sweep, I think this is definitely helpful.