I Can't Be The Only One!!

Misty_Morning

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OK. I need some opinions here. This incident just happened a couple of hours ago.

I readily admit that I am an anal retentive person. I’m not saying that I have OCD or anything like that, but I am pretty set in my ways in some regards. My house has to be maintained in a certain fashion. I like my kitchen to be uncluttered, the counters to be clear of unnecessary small appliances, my frige has to have no items that exceed their expiration date and so on.

Well I guess the same goes for the rest of my house. I suppose the rationale is that should I be out and about and my life be ended in some bizarre accident, I do not want people coming into my house and seeing any mess and/or clutter. Everything must be just right.

That philosophy also extends to my closets. Everything must be organized!

However the last several times I have done laundry I have kinda just hung up my clothes in a somewhat haphazard manner.

See, when you look in my closets, my clothes are normally organized according to the electromagnetic spectrum. More specifically, organized according to the visible spectrum. Ya know…ROYGBIV, ya know…red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet…and then I place black, then grey, then white.

Of course this is subcategorized for separate styles of clothing. Short sleeve blouses, long sleeve blouses, turtle necks, slacks, short skirts, long skirts, dresses and so on. So there are short sleeve blouses without collars in ROYGBIV, then short sleeve blouses with collars in ROYGBIV, then long sleeve blouses without collars in ROYGBIV…well, you get the picture.

Now the problem I have encountered is when I get to my tie-dyes, which I probably have around 25 or so. You see what’s coming don’t cha?

Well, this afternoon a friend came over for some fun. Afterwards, I thought she was asleep, so I took a shower and went to get dressed. As I was standing in my closet I decided to go ahead and reorganize my closet.

All went well very quickly until I got to the tie-dyes. This is always my stumbling block.

So, I’m standing there trying to decide if I should do the ROYGBIV thing according to the predominant overall color scheme, or that which is present only on the sleeves, which are the first thing the eyes see when walking into the closet.

So, I’m rearranging these shirts multiple times and surveying the results when all of a sudden I hear uncontrollable laughter coming from behind me. She had been standing there watching me and knew what I was doing.

Well, we most certainly had a laugh or two, and then I explained my reasoning. At that point she began to laugh so hard she was crying.

So, come on folks, don’t you do the same or something similar? I mean, how the hell do you find what you need without some form of organization?


Just saying…I can’t be the only one….
 
You can barely walk into my closet. The only organization is clothes on the left are my husband's, clothes on the right are mine.
 
Not only are my closets like that...I also alphabetize my cd's and books...and have them by genre.
 
my closet is in rainbow order, starting with white, to pink, to red, to orange, to yellow, to light green, to dark green, to dark blue, to light blue, to light purple, to dark purple, to brown to grey, finishing with black.

then a separate section for sweaters, then another for jackets, and another for dresses.

the jeans are lightest to darkest, and then all other pants.
all black skirts hang together, then all jeans skirts, then every thing else.

yea, i feel ya boy.
(ps, members of lit. don't think i'm weird, please?)
 
Well-arranged living quarters are the surest sign of a well-arranged mind.

I have all my paperwork filed alphabetically, by category.

Ditto books, magazines, CD's, DVD's.

Closets are organized as well, thanks to California Closets.

That organization stuff is really neat.

If I need it, I can find it.

Rock on, Misty.

Let the disorganized laugh, but wait 'till they have to find something (lol).

Like last years tax receipts.

Peace (in 2007).
 
I don't have enough clothes for it to matter. I separate what I have into two categories; work and home.
 
My cupboard's (hark at all of you with walk in wardrobes! i want!) are organised by WHAT the clothing is.

I have a slimmer cupboard for my jumpers/ jackets/ coats, and all my shoes arranged in boxes at the bottom.

one of my bigger cupboards has all my normal clothing ranging from 'stuff i dont wear often' through formal, through semi casual, to ridiculously casual. Within these 'types' the clothes are ordered from skirts- trousers- tops, and within THIS by colour- lightest to darkest.

My other bigger cupboard has all my 'traditional' dress in it, and thats not ordered in any way.

I have a dresser with smalls in one drawer, pj's in another, towels in another, and 'other' in another!

It never sounded overly anal to me before, but now realising how this ^^ sounds it probably is. Though i am quite a messy person at times :s!


I used to alphabetise my cd's and books, VHS's were colour coded according to the colour of the cover (when i was little!)- they were mostly disney's!
 
accelerated_montage said:
my closet is in rainbow order, starting with white, to pink, to red, to orange, to yellow, to light green, to dark green, to dark blue, to light blue, to light purple, to dark purple, to brown to grey, finishing with black.

then a separate section for sweaters, then another for jackets, and another for dresses.

the jeans are lightest to darkest, and then all other pants.
all black skirts hang together, then all jeans skirts, then every thing else.

yea, i feel ya boy.
(ps, members of lit. don't think i'm weird, please?)

Wecome to the Club of Weird, am (grin).
 
Misty_Morning said:
Thank you.

BTW... this is the visible spectum (or rather a mutated form of it)...

you need to send me your name and number so you can come in and survey my house before others enter upon my death....

not a problem. i'll be there in a flash.
i'm also really good at cleaning windows.

TE999 said:
Wecome to the Club of Weird, am (grin).

oh goodness *blushes*
 
I use the Pile system. If it's on the top of the Clean Pile and it looks ok, I'll wear it. Even shirts and stuff go in the Pile, I iron on the go. If I've worn it, it goes to the Dirty Pile. Works perfectly, and I suprise myself with wearing new combinations of clothes that I wouldn't have picked out on a hanger.
 
LOLOL

I showed my wife this thread and she started laughing. She used to think I was Anal about things but this puts me to shame.

Hey I live in a Mobile Home so everything has to have a place, and it has to be returned to that place. Unfortunately my filing system for things other than paperwork is one from my own mind. I can find what I want or need within minutes, but no one else can.

Cat
 
I am a "place for everything" person. My clothes are organised by what they are rather than colour (but a suborder of colour sounds good). My books are sorted by fiction/non fiction alphabetically, my CDs and LPs are alphabetically sorted (and I have an index book of them all too); videos and DVDs are the same.

Or they were. Until 4 years ago when we upped stumps and made the grand move. Since then we've been living out of two rooms with everything in boxes will we build our own home (a never ending saga for another time).

My husband is a happy slob who never puts things back in the same place and can never find anything.

I am going slowly completely insane trying to keep some order in the total chaos my life has become.
 
I worked in retail WAY too long.

My t-shirts are folded with nauseating preciseness (like you see them on a display table in the store - no wrinkles that way), as are my jeans (folded in thirds...pants go to the pocket, then in half).

My closet is arranged by use, I suppose....all dressy clothes on one end, casual on the other (dresses/skirts together, etc.).

I fold towels with the same OCD problem, too. :eek:
 
Retrieval said:
Jesus Christ!
I thought I was neat freak!

close to 20 years in retail clothing management/buying will make you that way (but that's the only thing I'm that anal about).
 
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