Where The Urge To Organize Really Comes From

Do you get caught up in new year organizing and cleaning out of 'stuff'?

If you are a parent of young or youngish children, the answer is simple. You MUST organize in January to find room for all the crap really thoughtful loud obnoxious cheap toys gifts that the loving grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, friends and nosy neighbors gave to your little angels for Christmas. Like that bull horn that really works. With the siren attached. My son actually received one as a gift once. Ahem.

But for the rest of us, you might assume the deep seated need to clean out and organize in January comes from New Year's resolutions, or promises to get life in order for the new year. Or it's possible you wait until spring and to do your 'spring cleaning' then.

Me? Well I'm afflicted with a disorder that makes me want to do it pretty much all the time. It's like a roller coaster all year long where at the high points I simply cannot crush the desire to clean things out and get rid of stuff. During the low points I'm just thinking about and planning the organizing and removing of stuff. Unfortunately, I am a complex mix of sentimental hoarder and someone completely unattached to material goods all rolled into one big confused ball. So there's always something to get rid of. But that's another story.

Back to my point. The reason we all find the need to organize and clean stuff out in January is this: Back in the beginning of December, we pulled the Christmas stuff out of wherever it was stored. And over the month long jingle season, other stuff crept into it's storage places. And we gathered more Christmas stuff, either by uncontrollable purchase or generous gift. And then we went to put it all away and it no longer fit!! Commence cleaning and organizing now.

Or there's this:

You're welcome.

***Ally
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