Ok, so I've given up (reality check - am trying to give up) my perfectionistic ways. I do; however, still want to be organized. I ran across the following list today while reading an organizational listserv and wow. Just wow. [My comments are at the side]
* People spend, on average, 6 minutes looking for their keys in the morning. [If any of you know Matt, this is many times a much higher amount of time in our house hold for him.]
* Due to clutter, 25% of people with two-car garages can't park any cars in there and 32% can park only one. [Hmmmm, and Matt wonders why I throw a fit when our garage gets too messy for me to park in there. I don't want to start a trend!]
* Women with shoe racks were seven more times likely to be on time for work than women without shoe racks. [Does shelves in the garage count as a shoe rack?]
* 80% of what we keep we never use. [Ouch!]
* We wear 20 per cent of the clothes we own, 80 per cent of the time. The rest hangs there, just in case. [Hmmm...just in case I get back to pre-pregnancy weight, perhaps?]
* 80 per cent of what we file never gets looked at again!
* Your four-drawer file cabinet, when full, holds 18,000 pages.
* Getting rid of clutter eliminates 40 per cent of housework in an average home. [Now there's an incentive to declutter!]
* Married men were four times more likely to leave their pajamas on the floor in the morning compared to single men. [*sigh*]
* 23% of adults say they pay bills late (and thus incur fees) because they lose them.
* Eighty per cent of the clutter in homes is a result of disorganization, not lack of space.
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