Organization

[susans]

With the post from one viewer about how her desk is set up and if anyone had  suggestions, it made me think of this question for the Sound Off:

If you can better organize ONE space to be more efficient where would it be?  Home space?  Office Space?  Desk?  Your Closet?

This is an easy one for me.  My kitchen.  I have a small kitchen and with the microwave I have no counter space.  It drives me crazy.  How about you?

Edited by editorus on 05/02/07 08:05 AM.

[geminigirl]

If I could organise just one space to be more efficient … does life outside of work count?  Other than that, I think it would be my spare room where my home computer is set up, which also acts as an overflow wardrobe and shoe closet (I have an awful lot of shoes...).

It gets so untidy sometimes even I’m embarrassed to go in there!  I have to have a good clear-out in there on a monthly basis as it ends up as a bit of a junk room – out of sight, out of mind.  And yet, when it is tidy it’s a nice room and I feel very pleased with myself.

My desk at work is a little cluttered especially at the moment because I’m in the middle of a self-inflicted filing project – you wouldn’t believe the stuff my predecessor filed.  Empty envelopes, anyone?  Eight sets of the same minutes in the same file?  Aarrgh!  I thought it would only take  a couple of weeks but it’s now one month gone and I’m only halfway through.  I will never have to order another paperclip or those clear plastic thingies to slip papers in …

So, maybe I would say my filing system but then, that’s going to be great once I finish The Project.

But usually it’s okay – a little cluttered but I know where everything is.

My wardrobe (closet) is pretty organised – all skirts together, all trousers together and tops organised by colour …

I have a small kitchen like Susan, too, but that’s quite organised.  Used to be awful with not enough cupboard space but I got a new one fitted with much more cupboard space (and new appliances) and it made a great difference.  Word of advice – if you get a new one fitted, do what I did and go on holiday for the week it’s being done.  I did that – handed over my keys on Saturday morning and came back the following week to a brand spanking new kitchen, all my things put away better than I would’ve done.  Marvellous!

[gee4]

I'm pretty much organised everywhere although I would have to say I could do with more clothes space at home.

[raindance]

Like Gee, I am also pretty much organized in every department of my life - very scary.

My home, into which I moved about ten years ago, is quite old and  has a much smaller kitchen than in my last home (but more rooms in the remainder of the house).  I like to cook and have quite a bit of equipment and cookery books.  I had to be quite inventive with extra shelves and racks for this and that, but everything has a place and it works fairly efficiently.  

There's always a solution to every organizational problem.

I wouldn't say no to a chef and a driver, though.



Raindance

[itsme_calista]

Personally I am very organised both at and outside of work.  However, my husband and kids fight against me every step of the way and so if I could I'd organise them more.  I've just learned to live with it!

[diamondlady]

BAsically the basement at home is a disaster.  Considering we've only been in this house only 2 years now, it looks like a war zone.  My stuff, my husbands, and his mothers.  It's leftover stuff that nobody has touched since we have moved in basically and we either a) need to dump it or b) do something with it, either sell it or toss it.  Nobody wants to bother because it is such a big chore, but it's a whole nother living area down there and it is finished, it would be nice to have some old furniture moved down there, but for now...it'll have to be.  

Diamondlady
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[opportunityknocks]

I would have to go with my bedroom.

It isn't dirty. Its just disorganized.

Shoes are all over the room, but in their correct pairs. Stacks of undergrad paperwork. My desk is covered in bank statements. One side of my room has clothes I plan on giving away. I have a pile of clean [keyword: clean] clothes that need to be folded and put away.

My days run into each other and its hard to take a second to put everything in it's place.

Its my organized chaos though!
I know where everything is and that's all that matters.
It wouldn't hurt to tidy up a bit though.

[spitfire78]

My desk at home!!!!  Because my desk at work is always so tidy and organized, no one believes that my desk at home looks like a bomb went off on it.  But it does.  I think because I spend so much time shuffling papers at work, I just have a hard time getting myself to do it at home.  Every now and then, I'll get a bug and spend a lot of time getting it all pretty and organized.  I'll be so proud of myself, and it lasts all of about a week.  Next thing I know, I have statements waiting to be filed, mixed in with catalogs I wanted to order something from, mixed in with info on a project I'm doing.  It's just a mess.  And every time I have to root through piles of papers to find something, I swear I'm going to reform.  But it never lasts.  Well, I guess we all have to have at least one vice, and that's mine!!

[countrigal]

My closet -- especially where my shoes are concerned.  With 2 boys, who are now into wearing anyone's shoes but their own, even if I wanted to, I can't keep them organized and anywhere but the center of my closet (or the living room floor, or the kitchen floor, or the boy's floor, or the... you get the picture), so when I get an outfit ready, I constantly have to search for the shoes I want to wear, and may or may not find them both.  But it's a fun chaos, that's for sure... especially when you see a 20 month old and a 3 year old toddling around in some of my heels.  They're feet are just small enough to fit in the flat "toe" portion of the shoe, and the rest just clomps around behind them.  And then hubby get frustrated because his boys are wearing girl's shoes.  Always good for a smile and a laugh.

CountriGal
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