resolution, schmesolution!
Jan. 19th, 2007 11:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
indigo_rose99I don't believe in New Years resolutions. Not that I don't think other people try to make them, but... I don't remember ever thinking that they were attainable. Kinda like Santa Claus. I don't remember ever believing in him. It was a story that supposedly some people believe. But I never did.
In spite of this, I have given in to the organizing craze. Every time I go through the mail or listen to ads, I hear how organizing my house can improve my life. Not that my life and house is disorganized. But... I did hear the call.
Specifically, for my travel drawers. I keep four drawers of travel stuff. Two shallow, two deep. The shallow ones are easy -- I can pretty much see everything in them. But the deep ones? I lost the bottoms ages ago. On my last few trips, I found it hard to pack the "of course I will want this!" stuff because I could not FIND it. Everything was in one of the drawers, but digging it out... So, I gave in to Container Store's ads, measured, and went looking. After two weeks and two trips, everything is in cute little plastic containers (some in layers of containers -- how cool is that?!) and I can actually either see or reasonably easily access it all. Whew!
Varying the containers sizes seemed the biggest thing to me, and going vertical at every chance was key. I would include pictures, but... You know. You knowing that I have lego cars, maps, plug converters and rubber bands? Not necessary.
In spite of this, I have given in to the organizing craze. Every time I go through the mail or listen to ads, I hear how organizing my house can improve my life. Not that my life and house is disorganized. But... I did hear the call.
Specifically, for my travel drawers. I keep four drawers of travel stuff. Two shallow, two deep. The shallow ones are easy -- I can pretty much see everything in them. But the deep ones? I lost the bottoms ages ago. On my last few trips, I found it hard to pack the "of course I will want this!" stuff because I could not FIND it. Everything was in one of the drawers, but digging it out... So, I gave in to Container Store's ads, measured, and went looking. After two weeks and two trips, everything is in cute little plastic containers (some in layers of containers -- how cool is that?!) and I can actually either see or reasonably easily access it all. Whew!
Varying the containers sizes seemed the biggest thing to me, and going vertical at every chance was key. I would include pictures, but... You know. You knowing that I have lego cars, maps, plug converters and rubber bands? Not necessary.
