How organized are you?

How Organized Are You?

One great way to reduce stress is to get organized. If you are interested in making your life less stressful, take the time to do a thorough cleaning and organize your clutter. You will find that the absence of small nuisances makes a big difference.



Take the following quiz and see how much organizing you may need to do.





Do you know where the following items are located?





Super glue

Yes

Maybe

No





Phone book

Yes

Maybe

No





A deck of cards

Yes

Maybe

No





Your last bank statement

Yes

Maybe

No





Address book

Yes

Maybe

No





Picture album

Yes

Maybe

No





Your car title

Yes

Maybe

No





Band aids

Yes

Maybe

No





Bottle opener

Yes

Maybe

No





Spare checks

Yes

Maybe

No

Score Yourself!



Yes 1 point

Maybe 2 points

No 3 points



10 to 13 Points There's no clutter at your house! You know the benefit of staying organized and relaxed.

14 to 20 Points Not bad. You may need to do some minor spring cleaning. Just think how much easier it will be to find that super glue when you know exactly where it is.

21 to 30 Points Yikes! You might need to spend a Saturday getting organized. Once you get your things in order, you'll discover an easier way of living.





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I might need to spend a Saturday getting organized? Try a MONTH!

[Meenah]

I think I will need about a year. We just moved in November, I read somewhere that you should plan on "two years" to get settled.

I didn't realize that I never replied to this....I guess we are all "organizationally challenged". Lu...I am just now realizing how disorganized I am....I was sort of hoping that the move in a couple of weeks would help. I figured that the MOVERS could put things in boxes and then I would just take things out and put them away and leave all of the junk in the boxes Are you telling me that I'll need two years



Kris
The Medical Spouse Network

OK - you can all hate me, but I got a perfect score on that test. I am probably the most anal one of the lot!! I am not kidding when I tell you that my clothes are arranged according to use (i.e. business, casual, dressy casual, etc) and within those categories are in ROYGBIV (red, orange, yellow, green, indigo and violet) order.



I know my craziness about order and neatness drives my hubby nuts. He even says I probably have compulsive personality disorder (<-- a diagnosis from the surgeon!!!), but I love being able to know exactly where everything is in the house. I am very much of the adage - everything has a place, and every place has a thing! I will admit that in the beginning it is a very time consuming effort to get things in order. Especially when your hubby is a slob!



Later : - )

[Meenah]

I gave up on being organized. I can never find anything and my husband is much worse. After my sister's husband died suddenly last year and I saw how difficult it was for her to find anything (he was REALLY unorganized), I decided to at least get paper work organized into a filing cabinet. It took me 2 months to put together the filing cabinet (back in October) and there still isn't anything in it. I'll keep buying those books on being organized though, I probably have 3 or 4!!!

[Meenah]

P.S. I scored 22.