Where do you keep your manuals?

DallasCowgirl from Dallas, Texas -

I keep the manual to everything. I have manuals for items I don't have anymore. LOL! I just keep them in the filing cabinet. But lately I'm trying to keep the manual closer to the item it's for, especially if it's complicated.

Where do you keep yous?

Comment #1 Ralph from New York City -

In the trash with the box.

Comment #2 melena from new orleans -

You need to throw out the manuals for items that you don't have anymore, no point in keeping these! Get rid of the useless clutter!!!

I have a box that i keep all my manuals with because it's easier that way to find them. I used to leave the manuals with the items but often i'd lose them that way.

Comment #3 DallasCowgirl from Dallas, Texas -

That was so helpful, Ralph. Why throw them out? You know everything about the items you buy? Typical arrogant male.

Thank you, Melena. I do need to go through my manuals and purge. Since we just got all new kitchen appliances and they have all the bells and whistles, I keep those in a drawer in the kitchen. I keep the Dish DVR, HDTV, and Recordable DVD player in the same drawer. Right now it's working.

Comment #4 Joe from South America -

I bought a Belkin router that came with a 3/4" thick manual in numerous langauges. Besides the default IP address all of the information I need about it is contained in the web screens you use to configure it. I consider that book (and the CD) that came with a complete waste. (the book weighs more than the product and is a waste of trees, shipping and storage space for the manufacturer and distribution of the product -- ESPECIALLY since almost all the information in contained in the product it self).

In the future if I need more information about that product I will simply get it from their webpage.

It has nothing to do with arrogance. It has everything to do with efficiency and economics.

Manufacturers should start offering products of all types without manuals for a reduced price (if even a dollar) and direct customers to the web.

Comment #5 Janet from Computer World -

We have a box in our bedroom closet that has all of the manuals in it. We started putting them in our office desk but it was taking up too much room. They're all in a box with hanging folders and put in alphabetical order. It's very easy to find them.

Comment #6 DallasCowgirl from Dallas, Texas -

Tell me, Joe, since it's not male arrogance, if you think all manuals should be eliminated to save the trees (a laughable concept) and that we can find the manual online, how am I supposed to reference my oven's functions while I'm cooking dinner? Go into the office, look up the manufacturer's website, go back to the kitchen to get my oven's model number because I forgot to write it down, then back to the office to search the site for the manual, then try to find the function I need? Wouldn't it be simpler just to have the manual in the kitchen with the oven like I do now?

Janet, I love your system!

Comment #7 Joe from South America -

If you need to refer to the ovens manual when your cooking dinner, I surely hope I never have the experience of eating your food... a cookbook sure.. the oven's instructions I hope not!

Now, I am surprised you didn't use the example of a computer... as if your computer is broken you can't read the manual online. Yet, computers don't come with any comprehensive manuals.

Comment #8 MissCrissy from My Chair -

I love this conversation. It's such a male/female thing. If you don't think you may need to reference what the oven controls do, you've obviously never cooked or at least aren't aware of how complicated ovens have become. And most computer manuals are superfluous.

PS -- your is a pronoun ;-)

Comment #9 George from Dead Like Me -

You're funny, Joe. My oven is brand new. It has a keep warm feature. Sorry, but I don't just KNOW how that works. Do you? I do now that I've used it. It's really cool too. My oven also has a delayed cook feature. I'll need to reference the manual when I want to use it. ;-)

Comment #10 DallasCowgirl from Dallas, Texas -

Hey George! I want your oven! That is really cool. Aren't there ovens that also have a refrigeration feature so that you can really put dinner in the oven in the morning and have it ready at night?

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