Organization

[azurelunatic]

Those who know me at home have likely seen the Infamous Closet, wherein are stashed a number of items of clothing, some books, and an impressive amount of alcohol for someone who drinks, on average, once a week or less often.

Those who have seen me putting away my laundry (a fearsome process) have noticed that yes, my closet is organized. Color-coordinated, even.

I have to keep my life organized, or it falls to bits around me. gremliness noticed the high degree of order in my things for someone so chaotic. It has to work that way. I'm not sure how, but it does.

Digressing from the point, though.

In the past, my closet has been organized into six sections: T-shirts with printing, T-shirts without printing, long-sleeved shirts, tank tops, pants and skirts, and Good Clothing. Each of these categories but the Good Clothing is sorted by color in rainbow order, with white by red and black by purple. (There's a lot of black.)

I've added two new categories, because I've discovered that the current divisions aren't quite all I need to sort by. A while ago, when I saw some of the good, sturdy black shirts on sale, something I already have quite a few of, all in identical states of mid-worn repair, I grabbed several, and stuck them at the far end of the Good Clothes division, for gradual replacement of the current shirts as they wear out, or if I suddenly need a shirt that isn't already half-thrashed. Now, on the T-shirts section, the newest category is Thrashed/Thrashable, for my easy-grab-on-the-fly needs when I'm putting on something to do housecleaning, so I don't inadvertently thrash another one of my shirts that is still in half-decent repair.

Comments

[cissa.livejournal.com]

Wow. I admire, but cannot emulate, that degree of organization. While I have such clothing categories, they are more in my head than manifested physically.

I'm trying to get the studio organized, and it keeps getting more so, but the rest of my life is still pretty random...

[azurelunatic]

I have to organize stuff like that, to keep sane. Otherwise the area around me degenerates into a great huge mess; I know if I allow myself to hang the clothing anywhichwhere, the next step will be leaving it lying on the bottom of the closet...

It's a very slippery slope, and it's one I've slid down before. My mother is still tidying up my room back home, and it's been two years since I left...

[koshall.livejournal.com]

You don't happen to wear a lot of Grey clothing do you?

[azurelunatic]

No. I think I have one plain grey shirt, and one from the last blood drive I went to.

[koshall.livejournal.com]

Ok... I think I can relax then...

Do you smoke cigars?

If not, then I can definatly relax, I haven't yet found Greyface...

*giggles*

[azurelunatic]

No cigars.

My ex-fiance did, though.


Note that Greyface is the order that destroys creativity, productivity, and happiness. :) The closet is kept this way because it promotes the sort of happy slackingness that can wander over to the closet, put something on quickly without having to rummage through stuff...

In my closet at home, I kept the souvenir shirts from stuff arranged in chronological order.

But no. eris_raven might get nicknamed Greyface, though, as she's that color all over, and oh-so-cutely furry.

I doubt Greyface has a box with sex toys stacked on top of the blank paper, or has the LAN cables strung up with twist-ties...

[ornjkitty.livejournal.com]

What color twist-ties? **ears perk up**
Wanna play with multi-colored thingies! ... **whines**

[azurelunatic]

Red.

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[ornjkitty.livejournal.com]

**lies on back with paws twitching in the air, just THINKING about playing with all those nice "things kitties are not supposed to play with" tied back with red twisties**
Kitty heaven!

[azurelunatic]

*giggle* These are far out of the reach of most kitties, being very near the nine-foot ceiling.

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[ornjkitty.livejournal.com]

I'm a very tall kitty. **blinks cutely**
And I climb walls.

[azurelunatic]

Eeep! No catnip for you, then!

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[ornjkitty.livejournal.com]

It's not the catnip that does it. It's those two liter bottles of Diet Dr. Pepper. Aaaaaaaaghhhh!

[azurelunatic]

AIYAHGH is about right.

My favorite humor columnist is addicted to DDP.

[ornjkitty.livejournal.com]

Besides, since when has putting it out of a kitty's reach made a kitty any less determined to reach it? Name once in the history of the universe. **giggle**
OK, if it were out of SIGHT, it would probably be out of mind, but if it is IN sight, I must stare at it until I die of old age or get hungry, whichever comes first.

[iroshi.livejournal.com]

If I actually did most of my own laundry, it would be sorted very similarly, except that I don't sort by colour. Mainly because all of my clothes are either black, dark green, maroon, or brown. I have a very *few* cream or white items, designed mostly to be used as backdrops for darker vests or sweaters, and an occasional dark blue item. That's it. Though Chris teases me about how many clothes I have, I actually don't *have* enough clothes that, after sorting by type, there are enough left in each type to need to sort by colour.

But mine's not for sanity -- it's for SPEED. When I get dressed in the morning, I usually have an emotion I'm trying to dress for, a feeling, a sense of being. And I go for clothes that will suit that. Which means I know which type of clothes I want, and can reach for those without much searching if my clothes are sorted. However, I don't want to discourage my mates from doing the laundry, either, so I'm not enforcing my sorting upon them!! :D

[azurelunatic]

I tend to pick a piece of clothing I like, and then make sure I have more than one of them. The two fundamentals of my wardrobe would be the black tank-top and button down shirt combination, and the long-sleeved black t-shirt. votania says I dress like a nun.

[ornjkitty.livejournal.com]

**drool**

[azurelunatic]

*giggle* Pretty clothes?

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[ornjkitty.livejournal.com]

*grabs off hanger with teeth**
Mmmmpf-hmmmmmmmmmpf!

[azurelunatic]

So much of my clothing is the same color, that I would have a hard time telling at a glance which piece of black fabric is the long-sleeved shirt, which one is the Strangers in Paradise tee, which one is the good button-down shirt, which one is the very cheap button-down shirt, and which is a tank top.

So it's also for speed. That's why I took up the practice in the first place; I had too many t-shirts and was spending too much time looking for the right one in the morning before heading off to high school.