Repost : Organized or anal?

Repost : Organized or anal?

June 19, 2006 @ 3:00 pm

We just had a yard sale on Saturday. The proceeds are going to the Relay for Life, which I am doing on Friday. We raised $150. I didn’t have much crap to donate to it because I got rid of so much stuff from my move to MA from Maine, but with me - and everyone else in this house - there's always crap to get rid of.

I try to pare down when I feel things are raging out of control. Ever since 2002, when I read the book called “30 Days to a Simpler Life,” I try to keep everything streamlined. I still have tons of things: clothes, shoes, accessories, shoes, books, and shoes, but I don’t have a lot of crap I don’t care about.

I have an OCD-driven organization system for everything, too. If you don't believe me, check out this list (If you don't want to lose several minutes of your life on a really pointless list, move on to the next blog entry):

• All my books are sorted by genre.
• All my writing sorted into edited and non-edited.
  
• Every book I’ve ever written in: journals, important class notebooks, books of creative writing, is all sorted, tallied and entered into a database. Yes, a database. I made it up this past year. It’s very pretty.
• All my shoes are laid out on the closet floor and coordinated into color groups (hots, cools, neutrals).
• My closet wrack is divided in half: tops and bottoms.
• Everything is hung so I can see it, and sorted by color: white, yellow, orange, red, pink, purple, blue, green, brown, gray, black.
• Tops go: tanks, short sleeve, long sleeve, short sleeve cardigans/ jackets/ shrugs, long sleeve cardigans/ jackets/ shrugs.
• Bottoms go: shorts, pants, skirts, dresses.
• Necklaces are sorted silver, gold, colors, long, layered and chunky.
• Hair things are sorted elastics, barrettes, clips, bobby pins, claws, large hair accessories.
• Socks, underwear, bras, nylons/lingerie have individual draws
• Lounging clothes and pj’s are just thrown into one dresser, no system necessary

Did you have any idea I was so anal? This is how I’m able to never wear the same thing twice. I develop organization systems for everything to compensate for my serious ADD.