The Pitfalls of Bargain Shopping

I hesitate to "out" this type of clutterer because I am often the beneficiary of her astute bargain hunting. Sometimes it's good, like when our favorite goodies are on sale and she has her husband drop them off like Santa Claus, other times she brings me things I already have, don't need, and the bargain clutter begins to annoy. And she's most definitely a type.

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The Incredibly Expanding Box of Wires

Peter Walsh's third kind of clutterer is of the techie variety. And if we were to pin this kind of clutterer onto a PixieType we'd have to go with Fun Structures (STPs). These types tend to be drawn to mechanical, technical things — you know, the friends you call when your printer is frying your very last nerve. But frankly, every type suffers from the ails of who Walsh calls The Techie Clutterer.

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Books Don't Actually Make You Smart

Unless of course you read them. But when you have so many that they are teetering in piles like the ones you see on the left ALL OVER THE HOUSE, and you won't even let go of your dusty, disintegrating paperbacks? Well, then you're most likely a Smart Structure (STJ), or are an Organic (NF) who's been raised by one.

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Embrace the Shame Closet

One of my favorite episodes of Friends is when we learn that Monica, the hyper-organized, perfectionist, "obsessive compulsive" home keeper has what us classic radio nerds call a "Fibber McGee" closet...which would be the kind of closet you see to the left, one where everything stuffed inside comes crashing down the moment it's opened.

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11 Ways to Make Your Life Harder

I'm ending this week of featuring brilliant party ideas from Real Simple with their article called 11 Ways to Straighten Up After a Party. I thought they'd have clever ideas on how to make party clean-up, simpler. And they do have a couple but they lead off with a killer one:

Freeze cubes of leftover wine and save them for recipes that call for vino, like Slow-Cooker Red Wine Short Ribs. Or consolidate half-consumed bottles to make a boozy syrup that you can drizzle over waffles, ice cream, pound cake, ricotta, or fruit.

My Classic Freedom (SFJ) get 'er done suggestion? Put a cork in it and drink the rest tomorrow night.

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