A messy desk is the sign of a sick mind.-common knowledge.
The Container Store is one of those places that breeds the illusion that anyone can have a clean and organized workspace. I like to wander around the container shop, marveling at the countless storage containers of every imaginable sort. The Wife has always been a big fan of underbed storage, plastic storage bins, and sweater storage-even though we don’t have that many sweaters.
The container store.com has boxes and shelves and drawer organizers and dorm ideas and all kinds of odds and ends. Holiday storage, such as wrapping paper storage and wreath storage, are another favorite of the Wife. The container store online is not quite as much fun as visiting a real world container store because you can’t wander around looking all this storage stuff. The container store elfa looks so much better in person. The container store com does give you ability to zip through all kinds of plastic food containers, as well as whole room ideas. They even offer tips in how to get organized.
But once I leave the Container Store, well, the dream of being organized ends. No matter how many shipping containers or shoe storage boxes we buy at a storage container store-it doesn’t change the fact that we have too much stuff. We don’t need scrapbooking storage or toy storage but we do need kitchen storage and craft storage. The container stores are sort of like Martha Stewart in that they tell you the problem isn’t really you-it’s you sup-par storage containers. No matter how many organizing stores I visit, I will never be organized. No matter how often I visit the container store, I will never have enough containers.
And that’s how the container stores stay in business. We all think that we just need a few more storage containers, a few more plastic boxes, and few more elfa shelves. But all the Container Stores in California and all the Container Stores in New York can’t make a slob into a neat freak. No matter how many times we think, this is the time when we will get it all sorted and put into it’s own little container. Well, maybe just a few more under the bed boxes. . .
