The great way to stop stuff trouble is to build good habits. It takes time. It takes reminding the family - until they hate hearing about it. But it works. The laundry actually ends up in the hamper which you've kept near the tub and shower. The dry cleaning ends up in the container you cleverly positioned on the way to the car, or the bus. Let's talk about an imaginary woman called Sheila.
Sheila has herself firmly in hand, and her habits going strong. Her hamper works, her dry cleaning gets dry cleaned. She owes herself a frappucino.
Then along comes a new idea. A new central organizer or something. It might even be something from my blog. Creativity raises its not always wise head. Sheila says Aha! She thinks the new thing is very high tech looking, or very Victorian, or whatever. She makes a date for charity to pick up the hampers.
She buys the new thing. Admires it. Happily plunks things in it. Then Sherlock notices (almost immediately) that something isn't right. The dirty clothes are still near the shower - on the floor. The dry cleaning is draped over the hall chair with her coat for the office. Nothing has been dry cleaned for some time.
What happened? Her good habits are short-circuited. All the training it took to get things in the hampers is gone with the wind, so to speak.
Luckily, Sherlock had a talk with Sheila, and the New thing is now a sorter for different types of cat paraphernalia like brushes and food and sand and flea drops and rubber mice. 'Nuff said.
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