Comments on: A place for everything, and everything in its place

By: Denise

Denise — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 17:26:25 +0000

Winter gloves in pockets of winter coat!

By: Abby

Abby — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 13:27:13 +0000

Ok – this is not good. Just now realized that I had it much more “together” when I was single and 22. Now married and 29 by comparison… let’s just say that I can only remember where I “used” to keep these things. This… cannot be good. (LOL)

By: Ann

Ann — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 00:10:01 +0000

Don: Although it irks me (because social security cards, by law, when they were set up, weren’t supposed to ever be required for identification purposes), I’ve had to produce my social security card to open a new bank account within the last few years, my sons needed their to apply for jobs and for several college-related things, and I’m not sure, but I think we needed them for passport applications. Additionally, I think my husband needed his for a foreign Visa when his company sent him to Russia for a couple weeks.

Ann

By: Nicky

Nicky — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 03:24:35 +0000

This was a fun one because I did well. I knew every one of them (2 pairs of winter gloves, and three places with flashlights.)

By: Storitz

Storitz — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 01:22:15 +0000

I need a filing cabinet SO badly :-/

By: Christine

Christine — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 00:04:21 +0000

Six out of seven. (No winter gloves necessary in AZ!)

By: Academic2

Academic2 — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 20:47:25 +0000

@Deb and Jen: My wife has the same problem. Five years in the same house and STILL doesn’t know the order the pans go in or where stuff goes in the fridge. I’m going to float the idea past her. It makes me feel better that other people’s spouses don’t get it either.

By: Renee F.

Renee F. — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 19:43:15 +0000

7/7 !!!
Children’s things – any or all. I have a place for them, but the “owners” can’t remember the place. In my decluttering this year some of those things have regrettably gone to other homes.
Gee, I don’t know – did you look where it belongs?!
The point is that I am more comfortable in my house, it does look better and lots of people are benefitting from my donations.

By: Zac

Zac — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 19:27:52 +0000

7/7, although I DO need to clean my bedside cabinet drawer – a small but consistent source of hidden clutter as it essentially serves as misc overflow from my “landing strip” (extra keys, change, receipts, yuck!).
I use a three drawer metal filing cabinet as my bedside table. It holds all my docs (including the SS and TAX), in addition to that pesky top drawer, and provides the table top for my alarm clock, glass of water etc. I’ll have to get on that tonight.

By: Don

Don — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 14:36:11 +0000

People still need to produce their social security card? I know where mine is but only because I haven’t had to move it in a decade. The only reason I know of to have to produce it is for an IRS form I-9 and there’s 7 other documents that can substitute for it and a half-dozen that keep you from needing any of those at all.

Do most people produce it when taking a new job?

By: gypsy packer

gypsy packer — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 13:12:53 +0000

Tax docs are scanned to hard drive, then loaded on portable hard drive and on thumb drive, a lesson learned after the demise of a motherboard.
SS card was stolen, as were two copies of birth certificate, one an oldie, stolen in the 90′s, the other a reprint stolen with the SS card. ID thieves never forget, even when the credit and the house are gone.

By: Laetitia in Australia

Laetitia in Australia — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 08:24:39 +0000

I’m 7/7 and I had to laugh at the 2009 tax documents – they’re right beside me.

The Australian financial year is 1 July to 30 June and we normally have until the end of October to lodge our personal income tax returns (extra leeway if you had an accountant do it for you the previous year). I lodged mine last night so I guess I should put that folder away in a drawer.

By: Fiona

Fiona — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 02:18:04 +0000

7/7! I am absolutely elated – a year ago, I’d have been lucky to find 1/7. I’ve been following those posts you linked to closely and it has changed everything around here!

By: Val

Val — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 23:53:19 +0000

I got everything but the car paperwork (I don’t have a car) well, assuming I can count my headlamp as a flashlight. I don’t have a normal one. I moved recently and that helped a ton with having a place for everything, as they started out put away.

By: Mary Anne

Mary Anne — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 23:29:01 +0000

I know where they all are, and except for the tax forms I can find them all in the dark.