About Me

Some people are born organized; everyone else has to work at it. 

I'm in the latter category.  What can I say?  I'm just not naturally tidy.  My main organizing strategy has consisted of taking whatever space I'm given--bookcase, kitchen cabinet, purse, closet, coat pocket--and filling it to maximum capacity.  And then I wonder why I can never find anything, or why my pockets are all stretched out.

You'd think this wouldn't bode well for an organizing blog, which, as more than one person has pointed out, is usually written by someone who is actually organized.  But heck, what fun is that?  I don't know about you, but people who are Naturally Organized  kind of get on my nerves.  No offense to any Naturally Organized readers out there, of course.  But come on, you know what I mean:  all it takes is one look and you just know that the Naturally Organized, with their neat hair and perfectly pressed clothes, have no idea how a living room floor can come to reassemble a booby-trapped lair, or how anyone could possibly accumulate leftovers of ambiguous origin in the refrigerator.  Or how the ambiguous leftovers could find their way into the booby-trapped lair. 

This is where I come in, because you see, I get it.  Organizing is hard, folks.  Chores are boring.  You have better things to do than clean the refrigerator, I know. 

And yet:  Wouldn't it be nice to be able to find things when you need them?  To know what commitments you've made and where you're supposed to be?  Wouldn't it be nice to have everything on hand and yes,organized, and ready to go, in the kitchen, in your closet, the study, in the craft room or work room or garage?

I thought so, too.  And so I decided to take the plunge and in July of 2008, I went public with this blog on my Quest to Get Organized Once and For All.  From the beginning, it's been a work in progress, but I learn things every day and my charter is to share the progress and process with you.  Sometimes the ride is smooth; sometimes it's a bit bumpy.  As I wrote in an early post, if I already had everything figured out, I wouldn't have named it Organization Quest, but I'm-organized-and-you're-not-so-there!dot.com. But isn't a Quest more fun?