From time to time, I encounter a skeptical interviewer--a media person or freelance writer who is, shall we say, a bit antithetical to the idea of being organized. Maybe they're free spirits, or they have so much innate organizing ability that the message seems like overkill, but they tend to ask the same question:
"Getting organized saves money? How is that?"
With organizing product sales taking off like an Apollo rocket, it's an easy-to-understand point of view. "Getting organized costs money--you have to buy all those bins and baskets and closet inserts, don't you?" they ask.
Not really. Getting organized is about cutting clutter, creating systems and developing a schedule--and only after you're organized, do you even begin to think about buying more stuff (to contain your other stuff).
Let clutter, disorder and disrupted schedules into your life? It will cost you money. Last week, it cost me $117.
