It's Hard GETTING Organized

Crazy that an organizing company whose motto is "Life Should Be Easy" will admit in writing that organizing it is hard, but it is. No matter what your personality type, it's the getting part that's always so difficult. Staying organized is much easier, but not if you've organized yourself in a way that doesn't take into account your personality type. Or worse, you actually organized but don't think you are because you don't think or feel that it looks the way it should. Ah those "shoulds" again. Life should be easy, but it isn't always because we're always having to get organized and never allowed to feel or think that we already are.

What's the solution? Well you can hire us. You can read our blog and look through our extensive archive of PixieTips for some solutions, and soon you'll be able to buy our book, but until then, here's a few tips to help you get started.

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What's So Wrong with Being "Anal"?

I know, I should have titled last week's entry as What's So Wrong with Being Lazy? But hey, what's done is done. The point is that just as being lazy gets a bad rap, so does being "anal." I know it's a terrible thing Freud did in equating being neat and tidy with having issues with potty training, or whatever it was he was getting at, but while no one would argue there's anything wrong with being neat and tidy, we tend to denigrate these attributes with "being anal" or the more updated and similarly psychiatric "being OCD. " Why is everyone so embarrassed to be clean?

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The Virtues of Being Lazy

I know, I know, probably half of you are cringing at the very thought that laziness could be anything other than evil incarnate, but I posit that it's actually a magical key towards easy and organized living. Why? Because if we're not organized, then we're either the type who is always doing too much, or we suffer from trying to make organizing harder than it has to be, or we're just so exhausted we don't have the energy to do anything but throw the mail on the dining room table and collapse in front of the television when we get home. The answer? Lazy solutions. Sure you can call them easy or simple, but lazy is more fun. It's summertime, tailormade for lazy days, so it's time to give lazy the positive spin it's always deserved. 

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Shopping List Central

After six weeks of painful recovery from abdominal surgery, I'm finally beginning to feel like myself, or enough like myself to be able to give my long suffering sister a break. I've also been recovering in other people's houses, the better for my mom to take care of me and the better for me to do first hand anthropological personality type research. It's been a crash course in the big differences between Classic and Organic homes and I'm here to dish the dirt, or the lack of dirt as the case may be. The first thing I noticed in the difference between the two households — probably because this is what I seem to care most about when I'm in pain — was how my caregivers kept track of my comfort food supply.

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Happy Spring Break!

Hope that somewhere you are doing something fun and exciting. Kelly's off on a Spring Break adventure, while Katie is recovering from the most recent "Arctic Bomb" on the east coast. How many new ways can they come up with saying, "Baby, it's cold outside?"

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