My response to the mortality-reordering is bringing me to fantasize about quitting my job with the pet care company.

I won't be rash, but in the face of people with, you know, actual problems, the whole BO issue with the boss makes me wonder what it would take to live without such trivialities.

edited for clarity of intention.

I recommend rashness.

But again, I have been drinking.

So.

When I get things more cleared out, I'm going to get rid of dressers and just go with racks. Maybe Ikea type cubbies.

PS, I have been drinking.

Me too.

All of my clothes are piled in an open suitcase in the middle of my bedroom floor, and have been since I got back from Ireland last May.

That is similar to my method. Especially for clothes that need to be hung. Usually my laundry basket ends up full of clean clothes and the floor is full of dirty ones. Until I need to do laundry and end up dumping clean clothes on the floor and refilling the basket with dirty ones...

And in an epic cap to this trip (....I should t say that, I'm not home yet) the jet bridge got a flat on the way to the plane. So now we are stuck here a while and have to do stairs out the back of the plane.

All of my clothes are piled in an open suitcase in the middle of my bedroom floor, and have been since I got back from Ireland last May.

There is a corner of the bedroom that is always going to be awash in petticoats, skirts, and boots. I tidy things up, I Resolve To Be Better At Putting Things Away (yes, that needed Pooh Case), and then ... life happens.

However, I am going to seriously cull the bookcases and if I eventually want to reread something, that is what digital is for.

When I get things more cleared out, I'm going to get rid of dressers and just go with racks. Maybe Ikea type cubbies.

Connie, I've used wire drawers, purchased from Home Depot for the last 16 years. They are the perfect bridge between a dresser and racks.

The Container Store sells them, of course, but I think HD's version was a bit cheaper.

My concern with racks, or even cubbies, is that things would spill out.

Hm. Maybe canvas cubes in cubbies or baskets on racks?

(Okay, that came of a bit Seussian)

I have wire drawer/rack things in an ikea wardrobe. Which is better than drawers in a dresser--I can see them and they're open....but still not good about putting stuff away.

My DEx had two actual 'dunes' of clothes in his bedroom. One ostensibly clean and one dirty. Both comically wrinkled.

He took the whole, nutty professor/genius thing a bit further than I found comfortable. Hey, it was his thing, but when I was driving him to Andrews AFB to board Air Force One in the middle of the night, his Picasso inspired trousers gave me physical pain.

In the end, he complained to friends that I was ruining his clothes by washing them too much.

I hasten to add, that wasn't true. I may be crazed with my closets but I usually indulge in the sniff test with laundry. Over-washing is not my kink.

meara, the claustrophobic fear of getting trapped on a plane on the tarmac is the reason I usually carry valium in my purse when I fly.

I used to fantasize a lot about quitting my job. Then I started having vivid dreams in which I had quit my job. And in my dreams I was always distraught and filled with regret that I had given up that job. I decided to listen to my subconscious and not quit my job. I have not regretted it. That's not necessarily what anyone else should do, of course.

cardboard. After I moved into this house, I made a promise to myself that I wouldn't keep cardboard anymore. If I needed to store things, I would buy plastic bins for them. I find that I keep a lot less stuff because I don't hoard the cardboard boxes that come into the house anymore. Also, I found that cardboard boxes hold onto damp and odors and attract pests. So I don't like them.