Organization on the CHEAP

This is post #2 for today

I am a LIST girl-I probably need to go through a 12 step program because I live by lists.  This is off the subject but it will give you a little insight into my organizational/list way of doing things. When Prince Charming and I were going through PRE-marital counseling, the pastor asked us to take this personality test.  We could not do it together, and I wondered if the TEST shows 2 people to be INCOMPATIBLE--what does the Pastor do.  Does love trump the test r do they just prepare them for a life time of counseling or refuse to marry them???  So we do our test and turn it in and a week or two later he meets with us to go over THE RESULTS. 

I NEED TO ADD IN HERE--This was not our pastor--that is a long story, nor was this our church but it had a middle isle and was newly re-decorated, had nice colors that coordinated with our color scheme.

This is just a couple of weeks before our wedding.  He has been meeting with us for weeks and he says, "I'm really SURPRISED, you both match up in almost every area except two.  He looks over at Prince Charming and says, "she likes lists-she is a PLANNER, she will plan every detail of every vacation you ever take."  He was pretty much RIGHT ON--because not only do I  do LISTS but yes I am a PLANNER.  I have plan A, B and C in my head, at all times, as well as alternate plans if any of those plans go in a different path than I expected.  It goes kind of like this:

There is PLAN A-B-C, that is the plan that you hope will take place but since there are 6 people in our family, I have to be flexible to change plans at any moment, so there is also PLAN A1 (no not the steak sauce) with a PLAN B2 and C and even a PLAN A1-B2 and C3...

I said I have learned to be flexible and I do have to say that not only have I changed some since marrying Prince Charming but Prince Charming has changed as well since being married to the DRAMA QUEEN.

The Pastor then turned and looked at me and said "he is a BY THE SEAT OF HIS PANTS KIND OF GUY, so when you have planned out all of the events that you want to do and when you want to do then and he sees something he would like to do on the spur of the moment, just know he won't plan out all the details of a vacation..  You need to be flexible with the plan and (looking at Prince Charming) you need to get used to a structured plan."  Then he said he would see us in a couple of weeks at our wedding. THAT is a whole OTHER STORY--the pastor did a NO SHOW!!!

Price Charming likes to be home and relax while I like to go go go.  The funny thing about all of this is that Prince Charming held the highest office in his class every year from 6th grade all the way through his junior year and then was Student Body President his Senior year--sounds like a guy with a plan--doesn't it.

We are both very social people (even though he enjoys just being home with the family) and I don't think Price Charming had an enemy all through school.  He befriended everyone.EVERYONE loved him.

Anyway back to my organizational project I did today. KATHY from Creative Home Expressions http://creativehomeexpressions.blogspot.com/2010/01/organizer-recycled-project.html  had made this project .  I looked in the garage but I didn't have any USPS heavy boxes in the recycling trash bin so I thought hmmmm I need to make something today to get things organized.  I had some Children's Place boxes left over from Christmas so I grabbed two and put them togetherso it would be a little heavier, trimmed all the excess edges and then began tapping it all together.  Once it was sealed I began cutting it open so it could be a file box.  Then I grabbed some decorative papers I had-because I have too many things on my TO DO list today and no time to run and get paper.  My sheets had all been used for different projects so I had to piece together enough to cover it. I didn't want it to look like a modge podge quilt form the 1920s when they used whatever scraps they had, I wanted it to still look cute.  Once I had it all MODGE PODGEd onto the box I ran some white tape ove all the edges then covered the box in Modge Podge to seal it. It is drying or I would show you all of my lists, of things I need to get done, neatly filed in their new home instead of in a stack on the desk.....

and here is what I ended up with.