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Put down a footer so that the end grain of the verticals is not sucking up moisture.
Since this is not the basement and you have already ruled out using anchors or the folding nuts, then just glue the verticals to the blocks with liquid nails.
No problem as long as you only put up shelves.
Not so sure about what happens if you put stuff on the shelves.
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Tapcons. They'll hold a lot of weight - more than liquid nails for sure. You have to drill pilot holes, but it's pretty quick. One tip I learned about drilling pilot holes to attach 2X4s. Your perfectly understandable inclination is to drill screw holes in the 2X4, place the 2X4 against the wall and drill the pilot holes in the cinder block using the 2X4 as the template l. It should work perfectly, except the concrete bit gets real hot from the friction with the 2X4 and the brazed-on carbide tips come off from the heat. I went through 3 brand new Bosch SDS bits before I figured out what was happening. Drill the screw holes in the 2X4, then mark the hole locations on the wall with a nail or an awl, remove the 2X4 and drill the pilot holes. An extra step or two, but it saves expensive bits.
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You don't have the patience to drill anchors? Seriously?
Install it correctly with some tapcons. It'll take 5 minutes.
Or use magic, which it appears is what you're hoping to use.
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Just get one of
these and nail 2x4s to the wall!
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