tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25192475.post1220551595794421491..comments2024-03-18T19:34:36.812-07:00Comments on Morning Coffee: My Big Book of Disorder and ChaosUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25192475.post-7818058251180074412009-02-19T23:32:00.000-08:002009-02-19T23:32:00.000-08:00I can't tell you how glad I am that you chose not ...I can't tell you how glad I am that you chose not to take on any guilt from the homeschool or housekeeping "fairies" (haha) who might wanna smite you for not being all Sue Ann Nivens about organizing stuff. (Remember her? Mary Tyler Moore show? :-) ) <BR/><BR/>Here's a thing to consider. I will never forget the story told by a college professor who accidentally failed to get some message about the location of his departmental mailbox. Whole academic year, never went to that mailbox once. Eventually, he found out about it, and some exasperated secretary, I suppose, handed him a box full of mail he'd never picked up. He went through it, and actually? Not one piece of it really mattered. Nothing important happened or didn't happen because he'd ignored it all. <BR/><BR/>Organization is for people who can't handle chaos. Ha. Put your feet up, Alana, and enjoy your kids and your house *your* way.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25192475.post-9842068752205016482009-02-19T15:30:00.000-08:002009-02-19T15:30:00.000-08:00Love it... that Disorder and Chaos thing needs to ...Love it... that Disorder and Chaos thing needs to be rearranged....great idea.gemmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828891166303941604noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25192475.post-77640770522499310082009-02-19T03:52:00.000-08:002009-02-19T03:52:00.000-08:00I write on the lining paper on my kitchen wall. At...I write on the lining paper on my kitchen wall. At some point the man will come to cover that up with nice duck egg blue and I'll go back to recording crucial information on the backs of the envelopes I collect with the vaguely virtuous idea that I'm saving trees.margarethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07727534908302610374noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25192475.post-29899573469830732902009-02-18T18:40:00.000-08:002009-02-18T18:40:00.000-08:00binders can be good; i have a school stick it all ...binders can be good; i have a school stick it all in here binder and a oh i hate taxes stick it all in here binder. then i have the i don't know what to do with these papers so they will go on the bookshelf pile. and yes, i am a professional librairan... but they don't teach personal paper management in library school. <BR/><BR/>i discovered that google calendars will email me reminders. i like that. and i have the magnet list on my fridge for groceries... :)elizabethhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00962587884124992942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25192475.post-5658637073957050702009-02-18T16:07:00.000-08:002009-02-18T16:07:00.000-08:00I tried the whole Managers of their Homes 'thing' ...I tried the whole Managers of their Homes 'thing' with the homeschool/chore/housekeeping schedule-list-planner. That was many years ago when we had just begun homeschooling. <BR/><BR/>I came to the conclusion that I wasn't like everyone else. I could never adjust to the keeping it all together thing. I am NOT a type a personality.<BR/><BR/>We made it through it all though. No day was ever the same-bizarre stuff happened-but I think that we raised two happy, (if not so well adjusted cookie cutter) kids. They might end up in therapy someday and the name "Mom" might come up..but I tried.<BR/><BR/>I still have my binder...in pieces. Somewhere among the homeschool portfolios. I think I called it "My home management Binder"...oh well..it was a home-so much for the management part!<BR/><BR/>Glad to know I wasn't alone!mamajulianahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17587916250051563299noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25192475.post-570519234789196062009-02-18T14:28:00.000-08:002009-02-18T14:28:00.000-08:00Awhile back I started what I call my "Plagues and ...Awhile back I started what I call my "Plagues and Nuisances List." it was the list where I dumped all of the stuff niggling around at the edge of my consciousness, making me feel bad that I hadn't gotten it done, and causing an undercurrent of worry that it wasn't done, or that I might forget altogether. Then I started tackling all the items on the list. Periodically I have to do it again. Your post reminded me of that. I'm all for figuring out what works. :)Dollymamahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07620082290318348792noreply@blogger.com