Are you Messy, Cluttered, or Organized ?

Junk drawer.....What's that??? Oh, you are talking about the drawer that is filled with all those useful things that one day I will have a use for. Broken pencils, deteriorating rubber bands, rusty paper clip, those will all be used to break into a secured elevator like on MacGyver or something. Most families have one or two, or maybe their entire house is a big junk drawer. I can sympathize with both sides on this one. Myself being raised by a clutterer, and vowing never to live like that, I have embarked on a journey to find ways to live with less clutter.

There is a difference between a Messy person and a clutterer and it comes from deep inside. Messy people are the ones who don't care about picking up the laundery, doing the dishes, or sorting much of anything. They just are happy living messy. Or they are so busy with work, kids, etc... that organizing gets put on the back burner, and they don't really get around to picking up. I would say that you would be considered messy until you come to the point when your life is overwhelmed by it, then you would be a clutterer.

Studies have been done and have shown that clutterers can be depressed and or anxious, and the clutter is a manifestation of the depression and or anxiety. Clutterers can hide behind the clutter instead of facing certain situations, people, or events, and therefore can isolate themselves from the problem. They replace the people with things (junk), and it becomes their way of running away from the real issues in their life. Doing so also creates a conversation topic for others to talk about instead of the core issue. What they really need are friends, and or family to create a safe haven to discuss the inlying problems, and bring them to the surface.

We don't need to spend a whole lot of time talking about organized people, except to use them as examples and learn from their ways of staying organized. Organized people aren't always the best bracket to put yourself in. I have found that a lot of organized people have a syndrome called Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, and I probably wouldn't want to be labeled as one of those. Be organized but not OCD.

Here is some helpful information!!

Tips on staying organized:

A good way to keep your junk drawer organized is to go through it every month or so and throw away the unneeded, return items to their original placement, and put remaining items in drawer organizers.

The best way to manage junk mail and keep it from the junk drawer is to sort it over a trash can, recycling bin, or better yet paper shredder. Put the others in folders marked for corresponding placement.

Verse of the Day: Proverb 13:4 "The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing, but the soul of the diligent is made fat."