Everything in its Place.
Many months ago we bought some tile squares (on sale, of course) that were FSU colors (no offense, Christy). The thinking was that Penny would make a serving tray or something similar for Meme Nelson. I proceeded to put them in a safe place and forget about them.
Fast-forward to this week and Penny is ready to do the project. It has grown into a tiled patio table now because we found a neat table (on sale, of course) at Lowes. So out to the garage I go to get the tile – and I can’t find it. Now the only things that have happened since I tucked the tile away are – shoulder surgery, shuffling our storage areas twice and filling the storage shed and shop, replacing our washing machine – which also involved shuffling storage out and in because of the laundry pedestal I built.
I thought I knew where the tile was because we have 2 other stashes of tile in the garage. I had no trouble finding those. It ended up taking me 2 days to find the tile but some good came from it. I uncluttered all the stuff piled in the front of Penny’s car in the garage. I pulled out the little dog bed that Truman didn’t want and Karen gave to us for Allie. I washed the cover and set it out for Brie. She likes it. I have it fresh in my mind now where a lot of our stuff is. Between this search and setting up the storage shed our storage situation is looking up. There is actually some empty space available to continue organizing our stuff.
We will never get completely done organizing; after all we’ve got 30+ years of disorganized storage practices to overcome. And there is always something more important going on in our lives than organizing storage (naps are nice). I don’t ever expect to have a place for everything and everything in its place, but I am hoping to find things faster from now on.
Many months ago we bought some tile squares (on sale, of course) that were FSU colors (no offense, Christy). The thinking was that Penny would make a serving tray or something similar for Meme Nelson. I proceeded to put them in a safe place and forget about them.
Fast-forward to this week and Penny is ready to do the project. It has grown into a tiled patio table now because we found a neat table (on sale, of course) at Lowes. So out to the garage I go to get the tile – and I can’t find it. Now the only things that have happened since I tucked the tile away are – shoulder surgery, shuffling our storage areas twice and filling the storage shed and shop, replacing our washing machine – which also involved shuffling storage out and in because of the laundry pedestal I built.
I thought I knew where the tile was because we have 2 other stashes of tile in the garage. I had no trouble finding those. It ended up taking me 2 days to find the tile but some good came from it. I uncluttered all the stuff piled in the front of Penny’s car in the garage. I pulled out the little dog bed that Truman didn’t want and Karen gave to us for Allie. I washed the cover and set it out for Brie. She likes it. I have it fresh in my mind now where a lot of our stuff is. Between this search and setting up the storage shed our storage situation is looking up. There is actually some empty space available to continue organizing our stuff.
We will never get completely done organizing; after all we’ve got 30+ years of disorganized storage practices to overcome. And there is always something more important going on in our lives than organizing storage (naps are nice). I don’t ever expect to have a place for everything and everything in its place, but I am hoping to find things faster from now on.
1 comment:
glad to see someone enjoying that dog bed!
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