Dollar-store baking pans can be used to make compartmentalized storage. If I had to do it again, I would look for the square type of pans, which do not have handles. This way, the cabinet could be made much simpler, using only saw cuts as a track. This was not possible for me, because I could not find those for one dollar- and we use what we have. Yes, we are always limited by availability, but I would not have it any other way. Necessity is the mother of invention; we operate within specific parameters to solve a problem that defines itself through these imposed limitations. If I had unlimited resources, it would be unnecessary to craft such a thing. Would it then not be rational for me to simply purchase one of those fancy sliding metal cabinets? If I had no necessity, I would no longer be compelled to invention. I would instead be talking to you about how great my tools are. I am sure that the complacency afforded by comfort would have its own merits, but as Kurt Cobain once reflected during a 1993 interview, when he was asked if money can buy happiness, he responded that the constraints of poverty cause some things to be more special than "having a thousand dollars... and going in and buying the whole store."
I know, I know, he was hardly a role model. But he's right.
