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Being Organized Means Having More Time with Friends and Family

No way.  A lot of organization and productivity techniques ask you to prioritize work over chitchat and socializing. How many friend do you think you’d have left if you always put work first?  Exactly.  You may be a slob, but at least people like you.

My boyfriend’s biggest pet peeve with me (yes, I’ve been able to keep a man despite my slovenly ways) is my treatment of softener sheets.  He can’t understand why I never throw them away after I use them.  He finds them on the floor, under the bed, on the bed, and floating throughout the house.

First of all, softener sheets are very pretty.  They look like little gossamer fairies flying about the house, and I don’t know why he can’t appreciate that.  Beyond that, I don’t think he understands my whole laundry system.  The softener sheet gets tossed in there with the laundry, and then who knows where it goes?  I think goes into deep hiding until it reappears…generally under his angry foot.

Now I know it would probably help if I actually put my laundry away, instead of piling it on our spare bedroom bed.  Then I might uncover those covert softener sheets in the process.  But that pile makes it so easy to find everything.  If I need a shirt, or a towel, or a sock or two, hey, look, there it is!  It’s all right there in my bed pile where I need it.  I just wish he’d understand that instead of shaming my inner slob.

For now I’ve taken to picking up random used softener sheets I find on the floor and tossing them at him.  That way he can see that I am now making a concerted effort to notice where those little sheets are going.  It also gives him the opportunity to throw them away, since he’s the one who’s bothered by them in the first place.

Welcome!  This is the place where your inner slob can feel free to express his or herself.  Disorganized slobs like us are used to having to hide our true nature.  We’re told it’s wrong, dirty, and unnatural to be a disorganized wreck.  But I’m here to tell you that this kind of thinking is a big sloppy pile of B.S.  Being a cluttered, scatterbrained, disorganized slob is the most natural thing in the world, and your inner slob is crying out for a hug.

Let your inner slob know that you’re not afraid to be you.  Sing it to the hills.  I’m a slob and I’m proud to be me!

A Slob’s Life