ORGANIZATION - WORKIN' ON IT!

I've never been a very organized person.  I try to be.  In my head I am.  In my head I have all these "magazine quality" organizational methods.  In real life, not.

I saw a quote from someone associated with The Container Store (angel's sing at the mention of those words) a few years ago.  The quote was "Organization works if you do."

Well, I don't, apparently.  Not hard enough.

I'm very organized at work.  In my disorganized way, that is.  In other words..... I know where "stuff" is ALL the time.  If you give me ten minutes.  But if anybody else had to find it.... that might be a problem.  I could walk them through finding it.  Just probably not more quickly than I could drive in from, say, Canada, to find it myself.

Ten months ago my personal life got a major hit.  Husband was diagnosed with a debilitating disease.  I don't talk about this part of my life here.  I just bring it up because ten months ago I really let things start piling up in our house, more so than usual.  All of a sudden the mail increased by 1000%.  Companies, people, organizations, were wanting to contact us, and they wanted to do it by mail.

Sooooooo...... my solution to "stuff" is to buy more plastic storage bins to put the "stuff" in.  This is my favorite style & size.......

Unfortunately, that attractive, inviting, EMPTY, plastic storage bin quickly turns into this, in my house....

And this..........

So I've been going through all the "stuff" for a month or two.  Plug in a movie, or a past episode of True Blood, or Dexter, or a Meg Ryan movie, and I'm good for a couple hours of sorting that "stuff".

I'm on vacation for a little while and I started my first day off sorting, AGAIN.  Here is the sad, pathetic, disorganization of my life, TRYING to get organized...........

And more........

And more...........

And, then here's my closet, where I try to hide things that I don't want to think about organizing, like shoes.  Luci likes my closet too, and has spent many hours closed up in here, unknowingly.  She does her best, on those occasions, to REorganize my closet herself!  (That's a whole different blog we'll get back too some other time!)

I'm sharing too much, aren't I?

WELL.............  I've made progress.  Here are the files I've started and I'm proud of them.  I especially like the WTF! file that I created for the "miscellaneous" "stuff".  (OK, it could stand for "Where's The Fun" - just not for me.)  You can't buy those files at The Container Store or Office Depot!!

I think I'm probably going to need more than one of those files.

Organization works if you do.  Right?