Are you an organized person? A place for everything and everything in it's place? When you need something you know

[debm55]

right to get it? Or have you found things in strange places? Sorry to say , sometimes I am and sometimes I am not.

[Demovictory9]

1. I try. I tackle different areas. This week I am organizing paperwork and stationary

It helps prevent me from hoarding stuff in closets...stuff I don't even remember I owned.

[debm55]

3. That's great . I sometimes have things I need and can't find it. Buy another and then find the one I was looking for.

Tape is something that I need and can't find.

[Demovictory9]

5. I have a small box for tape, glue, staples...stopped me from buying it over and over

Now I have to stop buying scissors!!

[debm55]

17. oh yes, the case of the missing scissors.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

52. I got every pair of scissors

I owned together and I keep them in a kitchen tool bucket and the handles stick out. Easy to find easy to put back
Also it is ringed with pliers all around the edges of the bucket.

[Demovictory9]

57. That's smart and efficient

[Skittles]

61. I tied a small pair to a magnet with a long string

I keep it in the kitchen because I am ALWAYS needing scissors to open SOMETHING there

[debm55]

62. Thank you for the idea of using little box for necessities,

[nocoincidences]

2. If I lived alone I would know exactly where

to find something. My housemates seem to have lost the plot on where thing ought to live.

[debm55]

7. I hear you, The family here, never returns items where they got them from.

[MOMFUDSKI]

4. I am one of those organized people - yes.

Makes life easier. Why create extra stress? My husband not so much. But if a neighbor needs a thing-a-ma-bob to make a repair they ask my husband and damn if he won’t find one in the garage! May take him awhile but there it is. Life is funny

[debm55]

8. That's the truth isn't it?

[ProfessorGAC]

6. Not Really

A few things, yes. Mostly I play jazz. I figure it out when I get there.
Our finances are well organized. I know where the kitchen utensils are when I need them.
I'd have to think about where any tools are, though. I have them, but I couldn't tell you where my cordless drill is.
My wife is the same.
We'd drive fastidious people nuts.

[debm55]

10. Same there --organized in some areas--others quite. Looking for a thermometer. should be in the bathroom drawer. Where

is found kitchen junk drawer.

[debm55]

16. That;s funny. Thank you.

[bucolic_frolic]

9. In grand disorganization, or shuffled reality

I can usually find most anything within 24 hours. Only a couple things escaped me. I am fastidious about returning things to where they have always been. But misplaced things can hide in plain sight for hours or days. I can lose my keys, while I'm holding them in one hand.

[debm55]

11. I buy paper plates. Place of residence is on top of refrig. Where do I find? In freezer part of refrig. Apparently ,

fell off, without someone noticing.

[debm55]

12. Or locating eye glasses.

[nocoincidences]

13. This is a major problem in my household.

One of my housemates is legally blind and her vision has deteriorated in the last few years because she is now 80 years old.

I just ordered her 3 more pair of 8+ glasses because they disappear. never to be found. This is not a big house.

She has been my best friend for 50 years. That is just how it is. I will take care of her until forever.

[Deuxcents]

14. Your post is the sweetest thing to say about your best friend but it says more about you than her

[Niagara]

21. We Capricorns love to help those people around us.

It doesn't matter if it's friend, SO or a random stranger, we always offer assistance. It's how we're wired.



Funny thing, my SO always has to help me find my randomly missing items that I just had in my hand 5 minutes ago, 5 days ago or 5 weeks ago.

[debm55]

15. Beautiful post.

[nocoincidences]

18. This is my best friend forever!

Non-negotiable.

Not special.

This is how it is supposed to work.

I am a Capricorn. This is how we are built.

[debm55]

19. You are a loving and a loved person. TY , nocoincidences.

[MOMFUDSKI]

60. Within 24 hours.

lol!!! That is a good one

[Phoenix61]

20. Very much so. I've mostly lived in very small places.

It forced me to be very organized or live in a massive clutter pile.

[debm55]

30. that's true. TY

[yellowdogintexas]

22. only in my kitchen. Everything has its own home.

and yet Mr YD still can't figure out where certain things go when he is putting things away. I have been putting the same things in the same spots for years.

In other areas, I will do a purge and re-organize which makes everything look great. Within a couple of weeks, they are all jumbled up again.

Also, I have our bank accounts and finances down to a T. Online banking is a lifesaver. No looking for random pieces of paper. Bills are paid on time.

[debm55]

31. You sound very organized, Kitchen are hard to keep organized. TY

[Niagara]

23. I'm more successful at apologizing than I am organizing.

Truthfully, I have too much stuff. Paperwork is my worse enemy, but things are improving.


I have made several plans to unload some items. My first plan of action to unload some books has failed, so I'm moving on to my second plan of action.


Over the weekend I threw out some shipping bags from clothing that I ordered for Christmas, so that's complete. I unloaded one coffee mug to my son and told him that I had more coffee mugs to offer him. He accepted, I just need to clean them up with baking soda paste to refresh them.


Yesterday I happened to notice that I had a missing collectors Barbie. I found her. I found the Barbie stand awhile ago and now I can't find it. In the process of looking, I found an extra Christmas Stocking that I didn't know that I had. I didn't know if I should scream or cry when I found it.

However, if you needed me to wrap a Birthday or belated Christmas present right this instant, I know where all the wrapping paper, scotch tape and scissors are located.

Slow and steady wins the organizing race.

[debm55]

32. Great post. TY Niagara

[Niagara]

47. Yw, Debbie!

[Jeebo]

24. What does "organized" mean?

That is a concept that does not exist in my consciousness. I am aware of the saying "A place for everything, and everything in its place", but my problem is, how do you decide where that place is? I have no idea how to go about figuring out where is the place for widgets, and where is the place for thingamabobs, and where is the place for whatchamacallits. And when I do decide somehow to put the widgets in this drawer and the thingamabobs in that cabinet, later, when I need a widget or a thingamabob, I can't remember where that place is where I decided to put them. I could write down those places on a piece of paper, but then, where do I put that piece of paper? And later on I won't remember where I decided to put that piece of paper. It might be starting to sound like I'm making silly excuses for my inability to do these kinds of domestic things, but these really are the kinds of things that happen when I try to get organized and efficient. Domesticity is a talent or a facility that I simply do not possess. When I try to clean up my house, all I end up doing is just moving the mess and the junque from one location to another. When I try to buy something to prettify my house, all it does when it comes into the house is just add to general morasse of junque and dust collectors. I am a 74-year-old retired single male, living alone, and the concept of domesticity is just something that I don't get. I'd like to hire a housekeeper, but any self-respecting housekeeper would spend two minutes walking around in my house and then leave and never come back.

-- Ron

[debm55]

33. You need to start throwing things out or giving to GoodWill TY

[debm55]

63. As I have gotten older. I stay away from the dust collectors, Just extra work.. Yes I would have to clean the house

before they came in.

[Mr.Bill]

25. As we go through our second downsizing in eight years,

(1600 sq ft to 800 sq ft and now to 500 sq ft) things get a lot more organized. It was easier to find something in a 10 X 10 shed than a two car garage, for instance. And of course you have less things to organize. Local non-profit thrift stores are going to love us when we are all settled.

[debm55]

34. Wow, that is going to be a big downsize. Good luck

[Ocelot II]

26. Hahahahahahahaha!

How boring my life would be if I could actually find anything...

[debm55]

35. You are funny. TY

[Hermit-The-Prog]

27. Sure

If I need a tool, it's in the garage. Or the garage extension. Or maybe in the barn. Or it's in the entry near the front door. Or upstairs where I sometimes work on things in bad weather. Or it could be in the trunk of the car. Or in her plant room under the ramp. Ah! I remember, I used it last on the back porch. No, that was last year. There it is, beside the computer chair, under the box of dead electronic devices.

Now, what was I going to do with it?

[debm55]

36. I love your post. That's how it is here too

[3catwoman3]

55. Thanks for the hearty laugh.

I can relate.

[Emile]

28. I try to be, but my wife moves things.

[debm55]

37. Trying to blame it on the wife????????

[Emile]

39. LOL, couldn't be me.

Being honest, I need her help all the time to find something. I can be staring right at what I'm looking for and not see it. I would be lost without her.

[debm55]

40. Very beautiful post , TY

[Emile]

41. This is so funny, but 10 minutes ago I was looking

in my closet for a certain shirt and couldn't find it. She came in and found it right away.

[debm55]

42. Good for her

[3catwoman3]

56. If I tell my husband that there are leftovers in the fridge in a container...

...with a red lid, and it's actually a blue lid, he won't find it.

[Emile]

58. LOL, sounds like your husband and I have a lot

in common.

[debm55]

64. Been there, I bet he finds and tells you it's not in there, Right?

[zanana1]

29. When I put something in a "safe" place...

It'll take a hunting expedition to find it.

[debm55]

38. Me too, the I forget where that safe place was

[grumpyduck]

43. Oh yeah.

I'm not anal about it, but I like to be able to find something when I need it. And for me it's just as easy to put it back than to leave it lying around and have stuff pile up.

[debm55]

44. You, grumpyduck, are an organizrd person.

[grumpyduck]

45. And I get really grumpy when I can't find sometning.

[debm55]

46. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

[Different Drummer]

48. I can usually find what I'm looking for when I need it.

Usually. Not always.

[debm55]

49. Same here

[TexasBushwhacker]

50. Oh hell no

I stay organized at work, but living alone, I'm a hot mess.

[debm55]

65. That;s funny, On the average how long does it take you to find something?

[I_UndergroundPanther]

51. Depends on the definition of organized

My art room looks like a tornado hit it,but I know exactly where everything is.

My art table is clean though and my shelves and closet looks disorganized to outsiders.

But it is very organized just not neatly.

[gay texan]

53. Bahahahahahha

Lordy, no....

[keithbvadu2]

54. I have a great system, except for the recall of inventory.

I know I have that very item........ somewhere.

[debm55]

67. Me too. Now to go look for the hunt for the item I was looking for

[pnwest]

59. That was my mother's mantra. A place for everything and everything in it's place.

And, of course, no matter how hard I protested that "I will never be like my mother", I am exactly like my mother. LOL. Now, the designated place for a thing might be a haphazard junk drawer (just kidding, I don't have a junk drawer!! Junk goes in the trash!)

[debm55]

66. You don;t have a junk drawer???? I have 2 and that's just the kitchen.

[Dem2theMax]

68. I used to be.

After a really bad case of covid, and now long covid, four years later my organizational skills are sorely lacking. Still have brain fog.

But I can find what I'm looking for, even if it takes two hours.

[debm55]

69. Thank you for your post Dem2theMax. I am sorry for the long term covid. I wish you well , my friend.

[UTUSN]

70. Fringe OCD here

[debm55]

73. I understand, I you ever read a certain forum on DU you will know my story. I understand , You are a survivor and are

loved here. I have my emotional scars from abuse.I admire you as I am still battling with my scares and a Mother who has 30 cats and refuses to believe the house reeks. She told me to wear a mask . I would need a Hazmat suit. Because of that, I did not visit my day. He died in September.

[UTUSN]

74. You are much appreciated

[MissB]

71. I have a holiday closet

When we created our youngest son’s room out of an unfinished space, he ended up with two walk-in closets. Neither is really big, but the smaller one is claimed (by me) for Halloween and Christmas decorations.

The bins are organized with scannable QR codes that tell me what is in each bin.

This is the most organized I’ve ever been. Other closets are not as organized. I’m working towards organization more and more.

My mom is a hoarder, so I really feel much better knowing what items are where. I don’t like looking for things.

[debm55]

72. I understand about your mom having an effect on your life. I wish I was as organized as you. As long as it makes you at

happy, Go to it. You live in your own house know and you can do as you please. I am happy for you. You, my friend are a survivor