Comments on: Being Organized Saves More Than Time

By: Mark Shead

Mark Shead — Fri, 13 May 2011 00:21:01 +0000

Good idea. I used to use colored dot stickers to do the same thing.

By: Daniel M. Wood

Daniel M. Wood — Thu, 12 May 2011 09:38:31 +0000

This is a good point that I hadn’t thought much about Mark.
When you are disorganized you both have to spend lots of time looking for the things you need, you need to spend energy obsessing about it, you need to spend time cleaning it because if looks awefull, but it also costs money because you keep buying things you have or throwing things away that you really needed in the future.

There is a lot to be said about being organized.

By: Cheri Sutherland

Cheri Sutherland — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 14:19:54 +0000

Whenever I purchase a piece of new piece of equipment, I immediately put a tag on the cable, plug or transformer, identifying what it goes to. Just using a small piece of paper and tape either on the transformer or around the cord. Serves a dual purpose when trying to unplug something from a power outlet.

By: Christoph H.

Christoph H. — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 11:42:54 +0000

One of the items on my todo-list for next week is to organize all cables in our office. We have cables from 10 years work with computer. A few months ago, I already threw more than 50 per cent away, but now I’ll create a spreadsheet to know what we have.

By: michael

michael — Mon, 14 May 2007 18:34:05 +0000

I couple years ago i turned my ibook laptop box into my cord container. Anytime I come across an adapter or cord I put it in this box. I am positive it has saved me hundreds of dollars and lots of frustration.

By: Mean jean

Mean jean — Mon, 14 May 2007 13:10:09 +0000

By: AL

AL — Mon, 14 May 2007 00:12:51 +0000

You’re absolutely entirely right about that. I still live with my parents, but I keep nagging them about the fact that all that pile of junk we’ve built over the years have got to eliminated or at least organized for when we actually do need something, we find it.

It’s hard to make my point with numbers as in the question you asked because this thing just happens over the years and nobody keeps track of how much we had wasted buying redundant stuff we had already lying around in the house, but misplaced.