Mr. Eichmann was my 12th Grade math teacher in North Carolina. He really made math fun. Besides his very apparent passion for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (The Tarheels) he also had a passion for organization.
A day didn’t go by without him uttering the phrase, “Organization is the Key” and he meant it.
It turns out it’s a good phrase to live by. Now those who know me really well and have actually seen either my work office or my home office will know that I haven’t really taken the phrase to heart. My wife, on the other hand, lives by it.
When she was a student at Texas Woman’s University studying nursing, she began every semester with a trip to Wal-Mart to buy organization supplies. That usually entailed buying three ring binders for every glass, colored post-it tabs and colored highlighters.
Well, her organization fetish isn’t limited to the classroom. We were going to the Galleria area because we had to take Belle to the surgeon and they had to run some tests on her that was going to take over an hour. So we decided to go to the Galleria Mall to kill some time. Well, on the way there, we passed The Container Store. Nancy isn’t one to blow by a store which derives it’s business through providing organizational products. Plus, she is looking for a better way to organize her scrapbooking and quilting supplies. So we stop and go in. We didn’t really see anything of use until we got to the end. There were these plastic containers that are designed to store your shoes.
Nancy decided that she was going to pick up a box of 20. I noticed that the boxes for men’s shoes were more expensive than the ones for women. So I decided to see if my Size 8 shoe could fit into a woman’s shoe box. Unfortunately, it couldn’t so we picked up 4 of the mens shoe boxes.
We got home from our trip to the Galleria area and Nancy quickly went to the closet and started boxing up her shoes. Up till now, our shoes resided either at the front door on a shoe rack, or along the floor of our walk-in closet.
The beauty of these boxes is that you can stack them and see into them. So now, all our shoes are neatly boxed away and are on the top shelf of our closet. Boy does our closet look better now without all the clutter on the floor.
