Monday, November 19, 2012

A Tribute to Aristotle: Get Organized

I woke up for school one morning and noticed how I was out of clothes to wear. I was digging through my dirty laundry piles to find the cleanest shirt. I did the smell check on three shirts that I picked out. I found a winner that I was about to put on, but I noticed a huge coffee stain on the side. When I looked at a couple more shirts they were either too wrinkly or stained.

It dawned on me that I should probably wash my clothes. I didn't have time before school, so I grabbed a sweatshirt and decided it had to wait until after school. Later that day when I got back home from school, it was laundry time!

I picked up all my clothes from the floor and threw them all into a basket. I brought the basket down to my laundry room and separated my white clothes and my dark clothes. After I put the first load in the washing machine I waited 50 minutes, switched the first load into the dryer, then put the second load into the washing machine. When both loads were done I brought the basket of clothes up to my room and started folding my laundry. 

Instead of throwing all my clothes randomly into my drawers I decided to organize how my clothes are put away. Normally I would have clothes hanging off my chair and thrown in my closet, but I had the determination to organize each drawer. I took out a piece of paper and wrote down what each drawer should be and tapped it to my dresser. If I didn't do this I would easily forget where everything would be.

After everything had a drawer, I organized my clothes into piles. I put each pile into their corresponding drawer and felt accomplished because my room was clean and now everything had a place.

1 comment:

  1. I can totally relate to your clothing organization process. Until last year, I didn’t keep my clothes organized at all. Sometimes I would do big clean ups, only to slowly mess it all up again. One day, I just got sick of it and organized my clothes once and for all. Since then I have kept them pretty neat and in their place, but it does take effort. It feels great and my room looks a lot better!

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