Thursday, August 19, 2010

Organizers Anonymous

I'm placing all my cards on the table.  I'm sure you all know this about me.  I L-O-V-E organizational items.  Plastic boxes, wooden bins, fabric bins, bookcases, etc.  LOVE them.  They make me happy just looking at them.  Seriously, I like to cruise the organizational item isles at Target and dream of the possibilities...

I think I have a secret desire to have everything in my house to have a "home."  A place where it belongs.  The new house brought many new (and exciting!) opportunities for this.  However, I struggle to convince all the PEOPLE in my home to return THINGS to their "homes."  That's a story for another day, though.

Today I want to talk about this:

The "this" would be that cute little black shelf at the bottom.  New today.  To organize my junk.  Best part about this little part of my house: it's not seen by anyone but the family coming in through the garage.  It's a quick reference for all the happenings in our life.  Now there's a handy-dandy place for the incoming and outgoing mail, the scout books, the returns-to-the-stores, markers for the white board, etc.

Why does this make me SO happy?  Cuz I'm a squirrel who likes to make piles, but now my piles have an organized place to live.  AND that makes for a happy and content squirrel.

3 comments:

runningfan said...

My name is Heidi and I am also an organizational freak. Where did you buy this magnificent black shelf?

Pauline said...

I love it next time you're in tooele you need to come help me organize my stuff because I'm a squirrel with L O T S of piles and no organization with it. Happy organizing.

JulSH said...

Heidi: I left blog world for awhile and just now looked back. I bought it at Target, of course!

Pauline: I'd love to organize with you. Fun, fun, fun!