I know this won't be terribly helpful to you, but the planning/organization thing only started to click with me recently.

Like within the last few years.

Hil, I plan and organize for a living and can't organize myself out of a paper bag. I've just recently, at 35, taken some control over my money. I bet some of the people you think of as organized are just feeling the same way you are-- and you've done great so far. i know you can make it until the end!

I have just accepted that I am not a plann-y/organize-y type of person. I CAN do it, but only through lots of concentration. Pete is the hyper-planning type, tho'.

Oh, God, I just want to hug the stuffing out of you.

JZ said what I'm feeling.

I feel like I should have learned things like planning and organization by now. Everyone else seems to be able to do it, and I just can't.

I am living proof that you can write a dissertation with very little in the way of planning and organizational skills. Esp the latter, I am truly disorganized. (I am also deeply lazy.)

You WILL finish it, it just feels impossible right now.

Pete is the hyper-planning type, tho'.o

I kept hoping I would meet a Pete, but I keep meeting people who need me to organize them! So I now have to sort of organize myself! My old boss met an organizy type when she was fifty, though, so I guess it is not too late for me!

Oh, God, I just want to hug the stuffing out of you.

JZ said what I'm feeling.

You save yours up too. I'll collect it as soon as I can.

{{{Sean}}} After the others hug the stuffing out of you, I'll gently put it back.

Pete is the hyper-planning type, tho'.

Me, too. I am v. organized. I feel very discombobulated when my house is unorganized. Which is yet further proof that I should not be a parent.

I am a completely classic Virgo. Left to my own devices, I would organize and alphabetize everything to within an inch of its life. And then get crazy annoyed the nanosecond anyone messed with it.

But I'm also a clutter-hound. So I keep my own clutter organized and I don't clean (it's the one thing I consider to be s important an expense as say, electricity). As long as things are relatively neat, I don't stress the dust bunnies.

I'm so sad.

Left to my own devices, I would organize and alphabetize everything to within an inch of its life. And then get crazy annoyed the nanosecond anyone messed with it.

But I'm also a clutter-hound

But this is not me. I don't like clutter and am ruthless in weeding my stuff.

I'm really lucky that I have two super-organized people in my life, actually. I've got Pete, and I've got Alexia, who was the organizational brain for most of the Seattle goth scene.

Left to my own devices, I would organize and alphabetize everything to within an inch of its life.

The way my bookshelves are "organized" would drive you to tears. Pete doesn't even try and find books, he just asks me where I put them. But I have them arranged in the way it makes sense in my head.

You save yours up too. I'll collect it as soon as I can.

I'm holding you to that.