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Liveblogging miscellanea from Organizing from the Inside Out
”If you put each group into a plastic basket, and label the baskets on the shelves, retrieval and return will be a snap. As will cleaning the shelves: Just remove the baskets, wipe the shelves off, then return the baskets. Try doing that as easily with eighty loose bottles, jars, and boxes!”
This is describing a linen closet.
Why would you need to clean the shelves UNDER the baskets? They won’t get dirty unless the baskets leaked something that spilled within the baskets. And if the baskets leaked something within the baskets, then you are going to have to take everything out of the basket and clean it thoroughly.
Look, I’m entirely here for containerization of small items stored in a large space (classic situation in linen closet / bathroom storage closet). But come on.
“Joseph, a marketing manager, needs a place in his briefcase for his cell phone, Palm Pilot, and project files.”
“Colin, a freelance writer, needs a place in his bag for reading glasses, sunglasses, keys, notebook, handheld tape recorder, and his laptop.”
I feel like Joseph is coming to us from the 1998 edition, and Colin arrived with the second edition. But who really knows.
“Packing light requires releasing the “ready-for-anything” mentality. Instead, visualize where you are going, what you will actually have time to do, and what you will actually need.” Written like a theater person trying to figure out what props are needed and which ones need to be pared down.
I also cannot help but notice the wild lack of water bottles and hot and cold sipping bottles with the adults in these books. I definitely remember this evolution in this time period, but seeing that absence in this book is kind of amazing. It makes me wonder if water bottles had to happen, to replace all the things we were no longer carrying around.
ETA: Water bottle showed up! Altho so have rolls of film, so, there’s that. Oh goodness, and carrying a checkbook around!!!
ETAYA: I guess if you are already carrying both a laptop AND files around, maybe this makes sense. No. No it does not.
“Pack a scrapbook, tape, a gluestick, and scissors for vacation trips. Each night, the family can write a description of the day’s highlights and paste in the treasures and mementos collected. By the time you come home, your memories of the trip are all containerized! Your scrapbook is complete and ready to be enjoyed.”
I would note, you will be checking the scissors [ETA still further: as long as they are 4 inches or less from the pivot, you can carry them on, says TSA], except this whole thing is so unhinged. However, the scrapbooking subreddit indicates that people do actually do this, and go so far as to having those fold up scissors for this purpose. Amazon carries scissors like this labeled “TSA compliant”. Some of them are quite attractive.
This is describing a linen closet.
Why would you need to clean the shelves UNDER the baskets? They won’t get dirty unless the baskets leaked something that spilled within the baskets. And if the baskets leaked something within the baskets, then you are going to have to take everything out of the basket and clean it thoroughly.
Look, I’m entirely here for containerization of small items stored in a large space (classic situation in linen closet / bathroom storage closet). But come on.
“Joseph, a marketing manager, needs a place in his briefcase for his cell phone, Palm Pilot, and project files.”
“Colin, a freelance writer, needs a place in his bag for reading glasses, sunglasses, keys, notebook, handheld tape recorder, and his laptop.”
I feel like Joseph is coming to us from the 1998 edition, and Colin arrived with the second edition. But who really knows.
“Packing light requires releasing the “ready-for-anything” mentality. Instead, visualize where you are going, what you will actually have time to do, and what you will actually need.” Written like a theater person trying to figure out what props are needed and which ones need to be pared down.
I also cannot help but notice the wild lack of water bottles and hot and cold sipping bottles with the adults in these books. I definitely remember this evolution in this time period, but seeing that absence in this book is kind of amazing. It makes me wonder if water bottles had to happen, to replace all the things we were no longer carrying around.
ETA: Water bottle showed up! Altho so have rolls of film, so, there’s that. Oh goodness, and carrying a checkbook around!!!
ETAYA: I guess if you are already carrying both a laptop AND files around, maybe this makes sense. No. No it does not.
“Pack a scrapbook, tape, a gluestick, and scissors for vacation trips. Each night, the family can write a description of the day’s highlights and paste in the treasures and mementos collected. By the time you come home, your memories of the trip are all containerized! Your scrapbook is complete and ready to be enjoyed.”
I would note, you will be checking the scissors [ETA still further: as long as they are 4 inches or less from the pivot, you can carry them on, says TSA], except this whole thing is so unhinged. However, the scrapbooking subreddit indicates that people do actually do this, and go so far as to having those fold up scissors for this purpose. Amazon carries scissors like this labeled “TSA compliant”. Some of them are quite attractive.