Peace of Mind Organizing

What are you waiting for?

12 February 2024

If you’re like me, you have plenty of little organizing projects around your house. You look at them and say to yourself, “I have to organize that [fill in the blank].” I do this regularly and sometimes I’ll let the same little project go undone for months on end. And then when I complete it, it ends up taking very little time.

That happened this weekend when I finally reorganized my underwear-and-sock drawer. The sock situation in my drawer had gotten out of hand and it had become a bit of a struggle to grab a pair of socks in the morning. All my socks were stored together, which worked together when I had two types of socks and colors of socks. But now I have wool socks in five different lengths and they weren’t separated enough.

So on Saturday, I finally emptied the drawer, donated a couple of items, relocated a couple more (like a seldom-used swimsuit and coverup) and sorted what was left. I knew I wanted smaller sock categories. I use inexpensive IKEA drawer organizers (Skubb) and was going to buy another set to get the granularity I needed. But I found I actually had an unopened set stored with my other organizing products! So that was an easy organizing solution to implement.

So in about a half hour, a drawer that was a literal source of stress became an easy-to-use source of peace. Why didn’t I do it sooner?

What about you? What are you waiting for to complete a life-enhancing organizing project?

Tagged with: organizing, procrastination, tiny projects

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