I was getting out my supplies to start working on a quilt for the church nursery (there will be photos soon) and I wondered if I am the only one who has to find all these great gadgets that she owns when she wants to use them. I knew I had a rotary cutter and I thought it was in my sewing box. Nope. So I looked in the next logical place — my nifty craft box with the special compartments and everything. Wasn't there either.
At this point, I was calling myself all kinds of names because I spend money to get the good tools and then I can never remember where I put them the last time I used them. I even have a designated sewing box. (It is getting a little frayed around the edges, but my mom bought it for me a couple of years before she died and I really don't want to replace it.) My Sweetie bought me one of those really cool craft boxes and some of the organizers that go in it, and I even have a great big craft box that is supposed to go under my bed, but my bed isn't tall enough and …
Oh, wait! The big box! Maybe just maybe … so I dug it out of the closet under the staircase. This is a much bigger deal than it seems. I live in a tiny little house and storage is at a premium so every square inch of storage space is designated and of, course, the great big craft box is on the bottom because, well, because it's big.
Anyway, I finally got it out, and foraged through it. (There is some really neat stuff in there.) And sure, enough, there was my rotary cutter. I didn't put the box back. My Sweetie did it for me.
The moral of the story is this: It doesn't do you any good to have great organizational skills and great organizational boxes if you don't use them!! Grrrrrrrrrr.
4 comments:
That's funny Terri!
Been there done that!
Can't wait to see pictures of the quilt!
Been there, done that.....will probably do it again!!!! You know the rule, put it in a safe spot so you'll remember where it is when you need it.
LOVE YA!!!
I don't know WHAT you're talking about! I don't EVER have this problem. I ALWAYS remember where I put EVERYthing!!!!
(tee hee hee) :-)
This is how it goes at my house:
"Now where in the world is ?????! I just know I had one of those. I thought I put it right here."
Well, I did put it "right" there and it sat there for 5 years. So one day I decided that if I haven't used it in 5 years, I must not need it, and I put it in the "yard sale" pile.
Then I decide some months later that I'm never going to have that yard sale, so I thrown everything in the bag away, never thinking to go through the bag - one more time - to be SURE I want to pitch it all out!!!
So I end up going to Wal-Mart to re-buy the gadget! OR, more likely, just do without it!
Yep - no memory and/or storage problems here!!!!!!
:-)
Alesha
I can never remember where stuff is, especially after I've done a good job of "organizing" and put everything away! LOL
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