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All of my things had a place , but like items were not always together. However I knew exactly where to find anything.
Then I decided I should re-organize so all like items would be together. That meant putting things in different drawers or boxes, etc.
It took an entire day last week
Tonight I just spent nearly an hour hunting for something, because I couldn't remember where I thought would be a brilliant place to store it :rolleyes:
It doesn't pay to re-organize if you have a place for everything and can find it .
__________________ "I have not failed . I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work" --Thomas A. Edison
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Oh sigh....I can so relate to this! I did the same thing, can't find anything! The worse part is I now think I need to start all over with the organizing!
I so know what you mean! I have a habit of putting stuff in a 'safe' place, where 'I will be able to find it'-what that really means of course, is that it vanishes into some sort of crafty black hole,lol.
I do this all the time...you'd think I'd learn. Although, having said that, I think I've got organizing down to an art now...I can actually find the things I need. Perhaps I will keep my room as is because it seems to work.
__________________ I got a Nikon camera. I love to take photographs, so momma don't take my kodachrome away."
Paul Simon
On the same subject, do you find that if you go looking for something, you don't find what you are looking for, but you DO find the thing you were hunting for last time? Happens to me every time,:p
On the same subject, do you find that if you go looking for something, you don't find what you are looking for, but you DO find the thing you were hunting for last time? Happens to me every time,:p
I usually find the thing I was looking for last week when I finally give up on EVER finding it and go buy a new one. As I'm putting the new one away, the missing one magically appears.
I keep my Distress inks in a Iris card box that sites on top of one of my Iris drawer carts
I have 3 Ranger Blending tools which I "formerly" kept in a photo box along with my hot knife, spare exacto blades and several other things.
After hunting for them through nearly every drawer and box with no success, I sat down to have a cup of coffee and contemplate this dilemma . I looked up and saw the card box with the Distress inks and YUP the Blending tools were also in the box with the ink pads ---sigh !
__________________ "I have not failed . I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work" --Thomas A. Edison
My most recent reorganization included getting Quickutz magnetic folders for Nestabilities and other dies. But I also got a label maker for the spines!!! I love it !
I also reorganized my drawers so I could reclaim the floor on the other side of the closet, and labeled all of the drawers, too. Now I'm hoping I can keep things like this for a good long while.
If you have boxes with lots of stuff and labeling is impractical, you could make a little notebook of what's where for those times when you look several places and still can't find what you need. It make take awhile but save you time in the long run!
The finding problem I'll never solve I think is when working on something. . . you just have what you need in your hand and set it down. . . and *poof*!! Where'd it go?!?! LOL!
The finding problem I'll never solve I think is when working on something. . . you just have what you need in your hand and set it down. . . and *poof*!! Where'd it go?!?! LOL!
Yup, that's me! The worst part is that often it "hides in plain sight"--and I can "look" at it without seeing it there. Maybe we could figure out how it uses its cloak of invisibility and make millions of dollars... (LOL)
The finding problem I'll never solve I think is when working on something. . . you just have what you need in your hand and set it down. . . and *poof*!! Where'd it go?!?! LOL!
Yup, that's me! The worst part is that often it "hides in plain sight"--and I can "look" at it without seeing it there. Maybe we could figure out how it uses its cloak of invisibility and make millions of dollars... (LOL)
I would never have believed my paper cutter could do this, but it does. And cling mount stamps I can chase all day on my desktop!
__________________ Denise
"If a person who indulges in gluttony is a glutton, and a person who commits a felony is a felon, then God is an iron.�
― Spider Robinson
I put my nesties in a "safe" place about 6 months ago. I didn't want to loose them. Well, can't find them. Ready to go to a scrapbook convention in November. Really don't want to buy them again just to find them soon after! Ugh!
My solution to this is to call in my husband. I don't know how but he always seems to find what I'm looking for. He's found things in the kitchen cupboards and refrigerator too (stamping stuff!!).
Love this thread! I can relate to everything said. Whatever part of my poor brain is supposed to remember things is so slow to "reboot" or "update", lol.
We've lived in our "new" house now for about 15 years, and I still have vivid memories of just where I kept something in the old house. It just doesn't help much that I remember it was on the shelf in the linen closet where we used to live.:mrgreen:
__________________ Bugga in OK
"Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible." Dalai Lama
How funny, Bugga. I was just thinking the same thing! We've been in our present house for five years, and when we can't find something we say "I know where it was in our other house."
Love this thread! I can relate to everything said. Whatever part of my poor brain is supposed to remember things is so slow to "reboot" or "update", lol.
We've lived in our "new" house now for about 15 years, and I still have vivid memories of just where I kept something in the old house. It just doesn't help much that I remember it was on the shelf in the linen closet where we used to live.:mrgreen:
:lol::lol: I can relate to this !!
__________________ "I have not failed . I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work" --Thomas A. Edison
This weekend I was gearing up to "reorganize" everything and thinking through how I wanted to do it. Now that I see this, I'm thinking - keep things where they are...LOL
I so know what you mean! I have a habit of putting stuff in a 'safe' place, where 'I will be able to find it'-what that really means of course, is that it vanishes into some sort of crafty black hole,lol.
This is me too! Especially that crafty black hole. I expect when we move from this house all sorts of craft items will magically appear from their hiding places.
I have everything in my rubber room organized, I know right where it is at all times! But, I have 3 pairs of glasses in there and I can never find one of them!
I got new glasses last month and have already lost one of the new pairs! They are all in Rubber Room somewhere?
__________________ Karen
...My life is like a stroll on the beach...As near to the edge as I can go...Thoreau...
Just spent the weekend sorting and indexing my stamps for the umpteenth time. But in the process I got rid of several I don't use and that's a good thing. I couldn't tell you how many times I've organized my craft room. I always think there is a better way but in the process I "put something away" and never find it again. Right now it's my scrubbing pad to clean my stamps. I know it's somewhere!!
Swimming in a sea of stamps and can't fine a single one!
My new stamping closet is nearly complete and I have all my boxes of wood mount stamps just thrown in on the shelves. Set by set I'm unmounting the stamps but trying to work on projects in the mean time. I know exactly what stamp I want (specifically the sentiments) but have to search through all the boxes to find them.....I, too, knew exactly where they were in my old house!
My solution to this is to call in my husband. I don't know how but he always seems to find what I'm looking for. He's found things in the kitchen cupboards and refrigerator too (stamping stuff!!).
I do the same thing-- sort of. If I can't find it, my computer is acting wonky, the dog won't stop barking... doesn't matter WHAT it is... all I have to do is ask him to help and the minute he stands up, I find it, computer settles down, dog curls up and goes to sleep, burned food unburns... ok, maybe not that, but still!!!
I have (shh, don't tell him) even been known to call him before I even look much because I know it'll save time.
If it ain't broke don't fix it !
