Do many of you try to keep things organized?

When I was working someone came into my office and said “You must be really smart to be able to work in your messy office.” 🤣 I wasn’t sure if that comment was an insult or a compliment.
 

StillLearning said:
When I was working someone came into my office and said “You must be really smart to be able to work in your messy office.” 🤣 I wasn’t sure if that comment was an insult or a compliment.
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that was definitely a passive aggressive comment ..I hate that. I wish people would just say what they really think
 
I generally know where everything is but it certainly isn't tidy. My problem is that I live in a flat (apartment) and it's difficult to get organised. When I had a house, gardening things were in the shed, pet supplies were in a cupboard, computer and paperwork were in a small spare bedroom, bookcases were in the hallway. Now I still have the same amount of possessions but they have to be squeezed into a much smaller space.
 
I’m better at organizing than I am at cleaning unfortunately but since I’ve finally begun to realize I’m never gonna get out of here into a smaller better place and so there’s no point considering re-sale issues, it’s hard to give a sh*t anymore.

Some friends of ours in a sorta similar situation (their health issues even worse than ours and in their case it’s the husband that wants to downsize to a smaller place and the wife is refusing to), at least they’ve got one set of kids that come every other weekend and spend the whole weekend doing yardwork, housework, and paying bills.
 
Lavinia said:
I generally know where everything is but it certainly isn't tidy. My problem is that I live in a flat (apartment) and it's difficult to get organised. When I had a house, gardening things were in the shed, pet supplies were in a cupboard, computer and paperwork were in a small spare bedroom, bookcases were in the hallway. Now I still have the same amount of possessions but they have to be squeezed into a much smaller space.
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When I downsized from a house to a 855 sq ft condo I got rid of many items. If I bring in new items old ones must go. So if I buy 3 items of clothing then 3 need to go. This keeps things neat and manageable.
 
Teacher Terry said:
When I downsized from a house to a 855 sq ft condo I got rid of many items. If I bring in new items old ones must go. So if I buy 3 items of clothing then 3 need to go. This keeps things neat and manageable.
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I have adopted that rule about some things. But I grew up in deprivation in many ways, so it’s a struggle sometimes to let things go and feel like yes, I will be able to buy a new one if I have to. I mean, all through high school I survived by sewing many of my clothes because malls were too expensive and my mother didn’t have much money to spare on clothing two teenage daughters. So, the whole hanging out at the malls thing to shop, which some were already doing in the 70s, we certainly were not.

But, fabric was still pretty inexpensive then and the local fabric store often had good sales, so I’d make a lot of my tops and dresses. Did that through many early years of marriage too. I have stoppd sewing often in the last 15 -20 years or so because it is very time consuming, and because fabric is not cheap anymore. But it’s still good to know how to alter ready-to-wear garments.

Example: sheet sets. Do I need 5 or 6 sets of sheets? Not really. And I did buy some new ones recently so it was a big ol’ struggle to figure out which old set to give away. But, I did make a choice. Lord, that was tough. “I might need those old sheets one day!”
 
I try, but the overwhelming amount of mail I keep receiving on a daily basis, which includes constant advertisements from local fast-food, businesses, banks, churches, insurance companies offering memberships, including the ones I am already a member of, and utility companies which seem totally unable to understand that I am not interested, or which keep signing me up without my permission, makes it virtually impossible.

All these documents keep piling up in my mailbox and subsequently on the very small dining room table, on top of the refrigerator, on the kitchen counters, in cupboards, in closet shelves and other places. Some I keep because they are important for future verification purposes, still others because they include info I might need to read, and yet never get around to it due to the sheer disorienting and continuously increasing volume. No sooner do I read one when five others appear each claiming to be urgently important. .

Ignoring the constant influx runs a risk. In fact, It cost me approx. 250 dollars which had been refunded by the utility company via a credit card, which I allowed it expire thinking that the card had no expiration date.
 

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