How Do You Know You *NEED* To Get Organized?

[ServinGsus]

Since my post on American's lastest epidemic (hoarding), I've been questioned many times on many things. One recurring question pops up: Do you think I need help getting organized? So I've developed this list of symptoms pointing to the organizationally challenged:

• If your laundry pile is taller than your children, you need to get organized.
• If the best place to play hide and seek is in the house, you need to get organized.
• If the news footage of a war torn country resembles your guest bedroom, you need to get organized.
• If you haven't been able to find the baby for a few hours, but know he's in here somewhere, you need to get organized.
• If you find children who don't belong to you under piles of stuff that you are moving around, you need to get organized.
• If you start looking for the kitchen table in the living room because you're not really sure which room is which any more, it's time to get organized.
• If your pile of bills starts out with one dated from before you got married, you need to get organized.
• If it takes you two hours to wade to your bed at night and you still can't find your spouse (but can hear him snoring!), you need to get organized.
• If you laughed at any of these because there was a ring of truth, you need to get organized.
• If you thought of one I missed, you REALLY need to GET ORGANIZED!!!
  

[Fistandantalus]

Mar. 2, 2009 at 2:07 PM

Oh honey, I have a LOT you forgot...

If the very mention of "clean socks" enrages you, you need to get organized.

If you're seriously considering buying 14 sets of plain gray sweats, socks and undies and having your kids wear exclusively those, you need to get organized.

If you have more stuffed animals than cobwebs, you need to get organized.

If you have recurring dreams involving being crushed by a pile of loose Lego bricks, you need to get organized.

If you're afraid to stick your hand under the bed to find your shoe, you need to get organized.

If you determine when you need to mop the kitchen floor by how fuzzy your socks get when you walk across it, you need to get organized.

If you have a section in your refrigrator that is labled "Green Section" you need to get organized.

I have more, but I need to go get organized....

[ServinGsus]

Mar. 2, 2009 at 2:16 PM

Can I steal one or two of those at my next workshop to get some laughs going??  You are funnier than I am!

(Original Poster)

[SuperNonna]

Mar. 2, 2009 at 3:08 PM

LOL, HEY I'm doing good!! Well... I don't have kids or a guest bedroom and I'm not married so I think I'm cheating... my laundry is the worst, I have bought new socks before because I don't have time to do the laundry!!

[ServinGsus]

Mar. 2, 2009 at 3:13 PM

SN, I used to do that ... we ended up with several HUNDRED socks in one big bin when we reorganized our home =)  Now, I just have to match them all ...

(Original Poster)

[Fistandantalus]

Mar. 3, 2009 at 10:15 AM

Sure, borrow away!  I'd like to think my slobbitude could help someone, that would make it all worthwhile.

If you have a Closet Of Shame, into which you fling everything when the Jehovah's Witnesses ring the bell, you need to get organized.

If you gauge how much laundry you have to do as "A shower's worth" or "Half a shower's worth" because you fling all the filthies into the shower you don't use, you need to get organized.

If your son took the dogs out the other morning wearing an old nightgown of yours, his father's socks and a too-small t-shirt reading "Daddy's Little Princess" you need to get organized.

If you have 75 packages of Onion Gravy Mix, you need to get organized.

If your oven occasionally doubles as a dirty-dish holder, you need to get organized.

If you find crumbs neatly arranged on the kitchen floor into a thank-you note from the mice, you need to get organized.

[ServinGsus]

Mar. 3, 2009 at 4:57 PM

Some of those involve a nice deep cleaning, too, LOL .... or a REALLY BIG DOG to eat all the crumbs!  Leave a note for the mice and tell them to do some work to earn their reward next time!

(Original Poster)

[Fistandantalus]

Mar. 4, 2009 at 9:24 AM

Today, I tackle my shower's worth of laundry.

[ServinGsus]

Mar. 4, 2009 at 9:31 AM

Have fun!!!  Today I tackle the crumbs to avoid mouse correspondence!

(Original Poster)

[livewell]

Mar. 8, 2009 at 7:49 AM

When you have names for your dust bunnies, you need to get organized.

And as far as mouse correspondence goes, there is an old myth about getting rid of mice from your home...one must simply write a polite note to them asking them to find another home (the address of an irritating neighbour might be inserted here), smear the paper with oil (like butter) and leave it for them to "read".