Organize, a magazine
Somehow, at a party I crashed at Blogher, I won a door prize. It was a year subscription to Organize magazine. It took a long time for the subscription to begin: for me to receive my first issue, and, in fact, I got TWO issues in January with a letter of apology for their timing.
I glanced at the magazines and then brought them with me to Chicago where I left them with one of my hostesses, Wendy.
Now that we've all SEEN Wendy's house we can see that this was a wasted effort.
Wendy doesn't need any help with the organizing. She has a closet for handbags.
My point is: I didn't get a follow-up look at them. You know, when a magazine first arrives you give it the once-through. Then you read anything that caught your eye, and then, you (I) do the follow-up and decide if I need to save or recycle or use the magazine for future reference. I didn't do the follow-up and couldn't remember if I thought it was a good magazine or not.
Yesterday I received the March/April issue.
It's a nice looking little magazine. Not little like Everyday Food, but slim. With a nice matte finish.
The cover boasts the following:
Sherri Shepherd - the View's newest c0-host reveals how clutter was consuming her life and gives us a tour of her incredibly organized Manhattan apartment.
Sherri herself is on the cover looking smug and busty in front of a closet in which one could perform open heart surgery it's so sterile.
What makes the editors think I want to read this article? Every picture is the acme of perfection.
I don't want to see that.
I want to see how BAD it was BEFORE.
That's what makes ME happy.
Procrastination: our life coach Dorothy Breininger explains why it can be good.
I'll tell YOU why it can be good. It can be good because I've been doing it for forty blah blah years and I'M DOING JUST FINE.
Another article I'm not interested in.
Maybe I'll read it. Later.
The Flylady shares her daily commandments.
I've checked into the "Flylady" and I have this to say: it IS a good idea to do a fast once over on several areas of your home daily. I agree with some of the "Flylady" principles. But the "Flylady" needs to get herself a "Graphic Design Lady" because, in my opinion, her site is butt ugly. And why would I purchase this magazine off a newsstand if I can read her butt-ugly site for free? I know some Flylady subscribers and they have kind of a glazed look in their eyes...what's really going on with that Flylady?
Finally:
HELPING THE CHILD WITH ADHD * FIND TIME FOR YOU
that's exactly how it looks on the cover.
I read this and think: WELL, WHICH ONE IS IT? AND HOW DO I FIND TIME FOR ME IF I'M ALPHABETIZING MY SOCKS AND STORING THEM IN COLOR CODED BINS?
I'll get back to you but I'm pretty sure this entire publication is one long advertisement for closet organizing systems and beautifully designed file folders.
I glanced at the magazines and then brought them with me to Chicago where I left them with one of my hostesses, Wendy.
Now that we've all SEEN Wendy's house we can see that this was a wasted effort.
Wendy doesn't need any help with the organizing. She has a closet for handbags.
My point is: I didn't get a follow-up look at them. You know, when a magazine first arrives you give it the once-through. Then you read anything that caught your eye, and then, you (I) do the follow-up and decide if I need to save or recycle or use the magazine for future reference. I didn't do the follow-up and couldn't remember if I thought it was a good magazine or not.
Yesterday I received the March/April issue.
It's a nice looking little magazine. Not little like Everyday Food, but slim. With a nice matte finish.
The cover boasts the following:
Sherri Shepherd - the View's newest c0-host reveals how clutter was consuming her life and gives us a tour of her incredibly organized Manhattan apartment.
Sherri herself is on the cover looking smug and busty in front of a closet in which one could perform open heart surgery it's so sterile.
What makes the editors think I want to read this article? Every picture is the acme of perfection.
I don't want to see that.
I want to see how BAD it was BEFORE.
That's what makes ME happy.
Procrastination: our life coach Dorothy Breininger explains why it can be good.
I'll tell YOU why it can be good. It can be good because I've been doing it for forty blah blah years and I'M DOING JUST FINE.
Another article I'm not interested in.
Maybe I'll read it. Later.
The Flylady shares her daily commandments.
I've checked into the "Flylady" and I have this to say: it IS a good idea to do a fast once over on several areas of your home daily. I agree with some of the "Flylady" principles. But the "Flylady" needs to get herself a "Graphic Design Lady" because, in my opinion, her site is butt ugly. And why would I purchase this magazine off a newsstand if I can read her butt-ugly site for free? I know some Flylady subscribers and they have kind of a glazed look in their eyes...what's really going on with that Flylady?
Finally:
HELPING THE CHILD WITH ADHD * FIND TIME FOR YOU
that's exactly how it looks on the cover.
I read this and think: WELL, WHICH ONE IS IT? AND HOW DO I FIND TIME FOR ME IF I'M ALPHABETIZING MY SOCKS AND STORING THEM IN COLOR CODED BINS?
I'll get back to you but I'm pretty sure this entire publication is one long advertisement for closet organizing systems and beautifully designed file folders.
Comments
You are right about the fly lady. It's very unappealing.
then every day you swish the brush around the toilet. and put the brush back into the tub of shampoo and water.
all i could think of was that shampoo was not designed to kill germs, and what kind of fresh hell would be in that container by the end of a week?
ick.
so no flylady for me.
Must go alphabetize spice rack now...
"Once you wear them and your feet are in them and they touch the floor...well now they are not right and I want new ones. Also I would like one BRAND NEW IN THE PACKAGE white tee shirt every day."
Most kids his age fantasize about Jessica Alba, he wants tee shirts in bulk.
It was a toybox, by the way. Which I so don't need, what with my children being 11 and 12 years old.
But if it had shown up, I might have used it to ORGANIZE something. And then I could have written a blog post about it--which would have become a magazine article--and the next thing you know, I would have STARTED A MAGAZINE.
For Blackbird to make fun of on her blog.
You'll be pleased to know that my suitcase from our trip downtown over a month ago? Just got put away two days ago. By my husband. Because he was sick of tripping on it on our bedroom floor. I hate putting things away that require a stool for doing so.
Another media form I avoid like the plague
I have, however, been able to organize my closet -- the rest of the house is a mess :)
I visited Flylady once, 'interesting', but too butt-ugly to return to. You are not wrong, not at a-l-l.