Whip It Into Shape
I seriously need to work on getting my home office organized. You know I wouldn’t mind it being messy and unorganized all the time if I only worked here partially, but since my home office is where I do all my work things are just getting beyond out of control.
I had 3 boxes that I kept all my tools in. They weren’t sorted in any particular order, but I knew if I needed a tool to work on something it would be in one of those boxes. Yeah well all three of those boxes have disappeared. I found one in the guest room full of bike parts. Hmmm…wonder how that got there? Thanks Hubby! The other two I have no idea where they are. I just walked in one day to find almost all my tools piled on my desk.
My filing is getting uncontrollable, too. I don’t have a filing cabinet so I had yet another cardboard box I was using for that. I kind of made my own filing cabinet by finding cardboard boxes that were just the right size for my file folders. Now my boxes are full and there are file folders full of important stuff stacked all over the place.
It would be nice if I had those shelves Hubby offered to build me years ago. It would be nice if I had that file cabinet he also offered to build me. Oh, what about my desk that wraps around the room so I can roll from one task to the next? Yeah it’d be a great help because I wouldn’t have to sit in the floor to repair a computer anymore either. Darn, I guess he just ran out of steam, and that’s why only half the desk ever got finished. Oh well, you can’t expect the carpenter to actually want to build things when he gets home.
My mother in law told me to just go ahead and buy some shelving units because she went through the same thing with my father in law. He promised to build stuff for years, but he just never got around to it. She broke down and bought metal shelves, and she installed them herself.
A friend of mine gave me some coupons for The Container Store, but the only problem is there isn’t one anywhere around us. The closest one is almost 2 hours away in Atlanta. For stuff like this I like to physically examine what I’m buying in person…not just order it offline. I am using the website to give me some ideas though. I printing out items I like, then I’m going to take them with me when I go shopping this weekend. I’m bound to find something I can use to help get this place whipped into shape.
