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Tackle It Tuesday

One of the very few talents that I have in life is being able to cram as many objects into a container as humanly possible.  If there was a world record for stuffing I’d be sure to hold it.  I have all these handy dandy baskets that are supposed to help “organize” me, but when you are a piler/stuffer they seem to do just the opposite.

Take this basket that I have on my microwave.  This is what I like to call the “in box” .  This is where I put papers that I don’t feel like dealing with at the moment.  As you can see, I have serious avoidance issues. 

Here is another basket that gets its fair share of stuffing.  This one hangs on the door at the top of my basement steps to hold stuff that needs to be carried downstairs.  As you can see, I also have a some issues with stairclimbing as well. 

I have to give a shout out to the 3M company.  They have invented one of the most excellent products products ever made called the Adhesive Command Hook.  These things are awesome on so many different levels.  They don’t do any damage to your wall, but my praise lies in how strong they are.  The fact that it can withstand the sheer volume of stuff that I pile in that basket is evidence enough of its greatness.  I think the door would fall down before that thing.

My last tackle was the basket of shame that holds my stationary.  

To say that this isn’t working is an understatement.   Last week I purchased a new container of sorts and went through the awful mess that was in the old basket.  There were quite a few things that needed to be thrown away–I mean who needs three pencil sharpeners?  We have an electric pencil sharpener now (Best. Purchase. Ever.), so why would we need even one of those dreadful twisty, manual ones anymore, let alone three.  They annoy the heck out of me anyway with how they always seem to break the point right before you are done sharpening it.  

Also, I had more pens, pencils and notecards than I knew what to do with.  Considering I haven’t written a letter since email was invented I doubt that I’ll really have much use for all of this so I got rid of most of them. 

Here are the after pictures.  First, the new stationary center:

 

The basket at the top of the stairs and the in box are both empty. 

      

They will remain empty until the barrage of papers that come home with my kids from school.  I’m convinced that their goal in life is not educating my children, but deforestation of the entire world. 

For more tackles, head on over to 5 Minutes for Mom.

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