Rethinking, Rearranging, Reorganizing

I have an affinity for the prefix "re-".  I like it.  (I use it three times in the header of my Singing Time blog, too...)  It connotes endless do-overs, in which the done-over is better, more useful, or sometimes just different (for those of us who crave change every now and then).  

Renewed.  Refreshed.  Such happy words.

With the completion of our basement, I have been confronted with an overabundance of reorganization projects.  Even as I pause momentarily for a blogging break, I am overwhelmed with what to do with this... where to put that...  what project can handle brief spurts of effort in between the sporadic schedule of motherhood... how far can I get on any given task in 10 minutes?.. 20 minutes?.. an hour, tops.  

Everything had a place prior to the basement project (most of which was in the basement), but now I've had to rethink and rearrange.  Believe it or not, I think deeply over each object... it's value (do I want need to keep it?), and where would be the best, most practical place to store it.  Some things that were up, are now moving down; some things that were down, are movin' on up.

The main problem with household reorganization is that I am the only one who ends up knowing where anything is.  The secondary problem would be that, due to the newness of the rearrangement, I may have bouts of organizational amnesia.  There are also those occasional times when I realize that, even after the deep thought (which is difficult in my peri-menopausal state anyway), the new home of a particular object may not be as practical/accessible/desirable as I had anticipated, necessitating yet another rearrangement.

Sometimes in my efforts to simplify, I make things really complicated.

I've been rethinking bathroom cleaning supplies the past two days.  With bathrooms now on three levels, I thought I would make separate containers of cleaning supplies for each bathroom (kind of... the girls would share between their two).  That way, if someone (hopefully not always myself) has a minute or two to clean, they will not need to waste their precious little time hunting down supplies.  They will be handy.  No more excuses for nasty bathrooms, including my own.  I still need to add a thing or two, then TRAINING will be necessary.  Expectations set.  Procedures explained (like how to mix the cleaning solution from concentrate, since our current procedure seems to include pouring half a gallon of concentrate in the sink to wipe down one solitary toilet -- so we'll be saving money, too.  Bonus).

My next two projects to tackle:
the crawl space (major editing needed)
and the garage (still only room for a single vehicle).

I've been debating between a yard sale or just loading up here and there and dropping at the nearest Goodwill.  So late in the season, I'm leaning towards the latter.  I don't think I can hang on to all our crap edited-out items until Spring.

We have some schedule rearranging to do, too.  More on that tomorrow.