You know it's time to focus on organizing...

16 June 2008

...when you can’t find stuff. The universe is putting me squarely in the shoes of my clients today. I’ve spend much of the day trying to find things. And so far, I’m having no luck!

Here’s what’s missing (and driving me nuts):

My spare glasses
My prescription sunglasses
The kitchen scissors

These are all things that have designated places. And they’re not in their designated places, nor are anywhere else in the entire house, as far as I can tell.

This feels urgent today because I have an eye doctor appointment. I’m going to get the lenses replaced in my primary glasses, so I was hoping to wear the spare glasses while I’m without my primary glasses. And I need sunglasses, but am loathe to buy a new pair (at least I don’t want to buy new frames) when I already have some. But heck if I can find them. They’ve actually been missing since last fall…I keep waiting for them to surface.

My nerves are atingle as I get more and more irritated by this. While looking for old glasses to donate when I go to the eye doctor, I found some glasses through which I can still see well enough, so at least I won’t have to wait at the glasses place without being able to see well.

Since I’m looking in every nook and cranny of the house, I see much opportunity for organizing and decluttering—little messes that had become invisible. I’m hopeful I’ll find my missing items (I tried blaming Joe, our cat, but that didn’t seem right) soon and then I can focus on re-creating order around here!

Tagged with: clutter, decluttering, productivity