Thursday morning brought the usual conundrum of trying to figure out what the hell had my wife upset. Note to self: at some point learn to read her mind. At any rate, it turned out that the issue du jour was that I’d left my camelbak on the kitchen counter. Which I suppose is a valid beef. It would have been nice if she’d just said that, but that is a topic of another post. However it did make me start thinking about a question on the silent commute to work (we ride to work together). Is it better to “put things where they belong” or to put them where they are convenient or at least where they can be found when you need them? This is a topic that myself and a group of people made up by my wife, mother and quite a few others are diametrically opposed on. I’m not saying that I want to live in a house crap strewn everywhere, but I also don’t want to live a pristine model home in which I can’t find anything. I prefer to live in a state that I consider organized chaos. It looks completely chaotic to pretty much everyone else but if I need something I can find it in matter of minutes because I know exactly which stack of stuff its in. My wife’s things on the other hand look very organized in their color coded folders and boxes with labels and things in neat and tidy closets. But if she needs to find something it will take her the better part of a day to figure out where it is and in the process she creates as big if not a bigger mess that I live in to begin with. So I have to wonder which is really better?
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