When asked by her boyfriend what was weird about me (following some comment of hers), Sarah launched into an explanation of what she clearly considers to be my organizational disease–the need to constantly reorder and reorganize my stuff and my house. I have to admit there’s truth to the accusation. I LOVE to organize and I am always looking for better ways to do it. I own more than one book outlining organizational principals, and have found some of them to be quite inspiring. The big event in my organizational life was discovering The Container Store. The first time I saw one I had flown to Atlanta so was severely limited in my ability to acquire new organizational tools. The next trip I spent my allotted budget on Sarah (who didn’t mind being organized by her mother at all!) Finally last summer I was able to leave the store with multiple shopping bags of my own, and I am hooked. Their stuff is the best, and I had a great time there again this summer. Sarah found this postcard in a shop in Little Five Points while we were there and it is me.
Then I saw this sign in The Container Store and knew I needed a picture of it.
Julie Morgenstern says in her book Organizing from the Inside Out, that if you are well-organized you can put everything away in 15 minutes or less. I make a horrendous mess while I’m scrapbooking, and I can clean it all up in less than 15! Nevertheless, I’ll still be looking for more good ideas.
I just have to share the other side – a great saying we found on a mug:
“People who are organized are just too lazy to look for things.”
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