As a person who likes to have everything in its place – some call it organization, some call it being anal – I feel like I continually strive to grasp why people who are not quite that way are not that way.

Well, today I had a minor epiphany (there should be a word for that) – we should be taking a bit of the advice we were given as children and are probably doling out to our own children (or others’ children). I can clearly remember being told that if I was going to take out a toy to play with, I need to put it back where I got it. And if I was going to play with something else, I needed to put away the first thing before I got out the second.  Now how on earth could this apply to adults?

Let’s just say I was in a somewhat large house with lots of items in it (not sure how I have experience with something like that…) the phone rings and I need to get a pen to write down a message. Wouldn’t it be nice if I could open a drawer that contains all the pens near the phone and actually find a working pen there to use for that message? If we took a bit of our own advice and put that pen back where we got it before we moved on to another task rather than shoving it in the nearest junk drawer, we might be able to maintain an organized living space and actually be able to find those things we need to use from day to day.

So there’s your little lesson for the day, which can be remembered easily by a little song courtesy of Mike Wazowski from Monsters, Inc.: