This comes from my Family Matters Organizing Support Yahoo! Group this morning:
It's Aha Monday! where we will share various insights wecame across during the previous week.  All members are welcome to contribute.


AnyAHA Moments! happen for you this last week?  Organizing, homemaintenance, life in general, some deep insight, kid-related,marriage-related - anything surface for you that you just went, "Oh!  Iget it now!"  That little light bulb above your head goes on?

Here's mine:

Procrastination is at the root of most clutter and disorganization.  We put things off, say we'll do them later, can't make a decision, etc.  I know this.  But I don't think I have been so aware of it as it was happening before:
Pat came home with salt for the water softener yesterday.  It was in the back seat of my truck.  He left it there overnight.  This morning I asked if he'd take it out and he said he'll get it tonight.  I had a flashback of the last salt refill: this is one of Pat's sole responsibilities, one we don't share or take turns.  He just does this.  Well he got the salt (after we had been out for 3 weeks), left it in the trunk of my car for 2 weeks until I couldn't stand it anymore and put it next to the garage door going into the house (where it sat for 1 week).  When I couldn't stand that anymore, I put it in the entryway so he'd have to trip over it (I mean we are talking 4 40# bags!).  Another week.  I brought them down the stairs and put them in front of the laundry room door (blocking it, so you'd have to step on and over them).  2 weeks.  The kids loved it, they started playing jumping games and using them as a fort.  So we are now 9 weeks without salt, and 6 with, but not in the softener!  Well you can see how stubborn I am and refused to actually put it in myself.  (It's his job for goodness sake!).  So after tripping over it for the last time, I handed him the scissors, took the top off of the softener and said as nice as I could, "NOW!  **!#/!"
So when he wants to take the salt out tonight versus this morning, I say I don't think so.  There were 3 bags.  I'll take one, you take two, let's go.  He stops in the garage.  Keep going I say.  He stops in the entryway.  I say 15 more steps - that's it, you can do it.  He puts 1 bag down against the wall outside the laundry room door.  I say, no way - you are 6 feet away.  He leans them against the washer which is right next to the softener and says see ya tonight!  I say here's the scissors, you're not leaving yet.  He dumps them in and leaves, I look at the clock.  What he didn't have time for took 2 1/2 minutes!  2 1/2 minutes!  Compare that to 9 weeks!
Just imagine all the other things we do this for.  Instead of the saying, Just Do It.  I say, Just Do It NOW!

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Anyone else want to share?





Tami Gallagher
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