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23 Dec 2019, 2:20 pm

I have always struggled with finding things after I have put them away. I was 40 before I noticed someone with a list of their file folders, which helps in deciding where to put papers. Usually, I have a messy work area just because that makes so many things easy to spot. Recently, I bought a new pop-rivet squeezer before finding my old one in the drawer with the label maker that works by squeezing a die into a plastic tape. I have to remember that the glass cutter is in the scissor drawer, not the knife area or among the similarly-hardened files. Other things may be filed by function, material, colour, or shape, but my best trick is to put things back where I found them last.
How do you classify odd things for retrieval?



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23 Dec 2019, 2:22 pm

A box marked "Odd Things" usually works for me.


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23 Dec 2019, 2:37 pm

Fnord wrote:
A box marked "Odd Things" usually works for me.


My mother used to pack up and travel all summer, and once wrote: "After six moves in six years, I find myself in my new place completely surrounded by boxes marked "miscellaneous." :-)



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23 Dec 2019, 11:08 pm

I just throw things away and keep my belongings to a minimum. It's not really organization if there's nothing to organize.