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The decorations are down, the tree is packed away. The floor is hoovered, the extension leads coiled and hung on a hook in the cupboard.
I know, it's a day early - but it's bad enough trying to put away strings of shiny beads, tree lights, and card holders with the assistance of Dij The Cat without Herself getting involved. If I do it, then everything is neatly coiled and will unroll next year instantly ready for use. If She Who Must Be Correct is doing it, it'll be like the Garden Hose And the Bicycles In The Shed Incident all over again, and a Gordian Knot solution will be the only recourse.
So tell me, friends: am I too organised? Yes, I label cables at both ends, so I know what I'm unplugging. Yes, I have a "special drawer" just for batteries. Yes, I know where the Sellotape is to within an inch!
Don't you? Or are you the "chuck it in a box and run away" type?
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This is good. Too much life is wasted trying to find things.
I've been doing quite a bit of DIY of late and have amassed a lot of new tools. I spend most of the time trying to find them. So, I have worked out exactly where each tool should live and strive to return it to the correct place when I'm finished with it. I have toolboxes and new shelves for all this.
It isn't working.  It seems my mind is so narrowly focused that I subconsciously put things down in the wrong places all the time with no recollection of where. It's very, very, frustrating.
I yearn for a more organised life.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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I have a "chuck it in a box and run away" type at home- she drive me crazy with that attitude...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Option #3 missing: Leave it all in place, next Christmas is coming soon..
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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When I chuck it in a box and run away, I usually can find it again without too much trouble.
That was before.
Now, when she finds the box and puts it in the "correct" place, I could search till the end of the universe without any chance of finding it. 
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A number of years ago I resorted to putting my MOT certificate in a frame and hanging it on the wall so I'd be able to find it if needed.
This was after over a week of frantically turning the house upside down because the police wanted to have a look at it.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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OriginalGriff wrote: So tell me, friends: am I too organised?
You can't be too organized. I know exactly where everything is - I don't understand humans that don't work this way! 
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R. Giskard Reventlov wrote: You can't be too organized...
I believe you can get medication for that.
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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H.Brydon wrote: I believe you can get medication for that.
I'm a robot: the only medication I can take is WD40.
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Organization is good, even if it sounds a bit COD. 
... I am the same way. Organization and labeling is a good thing. My wife and I took down all of the Christmas stuff, on Saturday. 
I will be faarrrkkkking legless before I am carriedcto the car ftombhere. - Michael Martin - Christmas 2015
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Slacker007 wrote: sounds a bit COD
I hate to correct you, but, shouldnt that be OCD instead of COD .. and yes, I am OCD
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Garth J Lancaster wrote: shouldnt that be OCD
You mean shouldn't that be OCD, right?
/ravi (OCD grammar Nazi)
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yeah - I knew the minute I hit enter I was going to cop grief over that - but was too tired to go back and edit - serves me right
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No, it should be CDO - with the letters in the right bally order!
veni bibi saltavi
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hmmmm what to do when the programmer fights his OCD .....
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It's always better to organize that stuff, i put the "fake candles" (lights) always in the exactly same order in the box
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I'm the same Griff especially with tools
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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Same here. Christmas stuff is organized and stored away in its own set of storage boxes. I don't coil the lights; I just put each strand in its own plastic bag. Luckily for me, my three cats are too old to have an interest in the process.
Software Zen: delete this;
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OriginalGriff wrote: Or are you the "chuck it in a box and run away" type?
More the chuck it on the floor and sit still type, to be honest (though I have no Christmas decorations so that's never going to be a problem). You can't lose stuff you trip over every day! 
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OriginalGriff wrote: So tell me, friends: am I too organised?
One can never be too organized.
/ravi
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I do the same with Christmas that I did with Windows 8, I ignored it and it went away.
New version: WinHeist Version They all laugh at me because I'm different; I laugh at them because they're all the same. Kurt Cobain
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I just 'chuck it in a box' however, each box is labeled and has a correct place. 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Not until the sixth, slacker.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Sellotape
Shouldn't that be "Cellotape"?
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Nope[^], it's definitely Sellotape[^]
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