Oh my goodness, some of those are snort the coffee out your nose funny!!! And some are poignant.

THANK YOU SO MUCH for collecting and posting them!!!

I like the last one best-about the 15 books on organization.

What a great collection, lilydilly! I smiled all the way through them. Some real pearls there.

Kathleen

Thank you, thank you Lily!

Maria, GR.

Lily, you made my morning! (except I spurted coffee all over my keyboard when I read Celtic Moon's comment)

Thanks for sharing, Great reading this AM.

Oh those are wonderful! I'm in a shades of Idaho, not going to punish myself with no longer important stuff kinda mood and thought I'd wonder over here to glean some inspiration from all you organizing aficionados. Off to read more posts! : )

Except I think I have 50 books on organization (and time management, office space, housework/homework, and so on).

Laugh, or check into the loony bin? I really do/did enjoy them at one time, though.

Now THAT was time well spent!!! Thank you so much for caring enough to share.

I occasionally think of some of the comments that have stuck in what little memory I have left, and chuckle over many of them. I actually guffaw over the comment posted under something to do with the best thing you ever got rid of....one lady posted 'my mother in law and her deadbeat son'.

Humor is such cheap medicine!

Barbara

Yep, I've found that inspiration is the best cleaning/ organizing tool around. And that's what this forum supplies for me... inspiration.
I often see cleaning products and gadgets and think, Now, if I had one of them the task would get done. And then if i buy it, I get it home and put it in the cupboard and wow, it doesn't get the task done at all, not all by itself.
Nope. I've found that what gets the task done is simply me getting up and shifting myself about. A cloth, a bit of water and a dollop, of sudsy stuff cleans most of the areas in my house, gadgets/products or no. It's just the inspiration to get said cloth and sudsy stuff into my lazy little old hand that is the missing factor.
I found that by reading posts on here, I was inspired to make my spaces just how I want them to be, clean, organized and de-cluttered.
If someone asks how to best sort their sock drawer, I find myself wanting to go look in mine.
And if someone says they've just sparkled their bathroom mirrors, I think, "Oh, maybe mine need a bit of a rub up".
I guess it just changes our perspective or attitude to know someone else out in the world is also wiping down toothpaste specks and hosing out their wheelie bin?
Keep the inspiration coming. It works better for me than all the bleach and detergent in the world.
Cheers from lily

Loved them! Thanks so much. Now, throw them to the wind! LOL

Lilydilly,

What is a wheelie bin? Please don't tell me I have one and didn't even know what it was. And imagine how dirty it must be by now!

Barbara

Thanks for the laugh! I have often laughed out loud, and been inspired by this forum. That's why I keep coming back year after year. But this past month I really have been inspired to clean out. We will be moving next month. I have known for a few years that we would be moving, so have been trying to clean out. But it only gets me so far. Now that we only have a month, I find that where I usually feel wishy washy about getting rid of stuff - and close the closet door and suddenly remember other important things I have to do - lately I've been saying what's so hard about getting rid of this? I have finally arrived! Yeah!

Barbara. LOL the "wheelie bin" is just our big outdoor garbage container... not sure what you call it outside of Australia... trash/garbage bin/can? ours are big green plastic bins on wheels and we put them out to have the garbage collected each week.

Okay, I got that. We call it a garbage can here in the US. A lot of them have wheels too.

I have a neice in Surf City, moved there about a year ago, and loving it! She actually surfs! Doesn't do violets though.

Barbara