July 27, 2010

Capitulation!

Capitulate - verb (used without object)
     1. to surrender unconditionally or on stipulated terms.
     2. to give up resistance

I capitulated after less than a week. I could not deal with looking into each and every drawer in my “card file” to find a bloody pair of shoes as I was racing out the door in the morning, with Connor tugging on his lead, and knowing that I was already late!7-27 002So, this evening, I made up little cards for each pair of shoes housed in the file and stuck them in their assigned slots. 7-27 005 They are in no particular order, but enough that it will only take me 20 seconds to find the right pair of shoes.7-27 006 I would rather be obsessive than late.

20 comments:

  1. Makes sense to me....I guess unlabeled would have been like those memory mind games...might be good for the brain but highly annoying when in a hurry!

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  2. LOL and sigh of relief because I was about to offer to make labels for you! Or even more obsessive, scan shoe pictures onto the labels.

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  3. Can't keep Connor waiting - I like the look of the labels. Simple and classic!

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  4. Lol, from a guy with OCD I am a big fan!

    Savile Joe

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  5. you could take a picture of each shoe.

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  6. how about alphabetize next? I would have done the same thing!

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  7. Hahaha! I've been circling back around to see if you would post a follow-up! Well played

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  8. Hmph! You say obsessive as if it were a bad thing...

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  9. 30 drawers!!! I am still dancing around with happiness for this score! It's a great piece.

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  10. FANTASTIC!! SO ORIGINAL,I LOVE THE LABELS THEY HAVE A VINTAGY LOOK

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  11. Mary Jane, I really fiddled with the font to use and thought this was a classic look.

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  12. Amazing....love this obsession Meg, xv.

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  13. What a stylish idea Meg! I love it. Unfortunately, for me, I would need a file cabinet for each pair.

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  14. Love it. I still vote for the "exotic" names for each pair to raise everyone's curiosity as to what's inside but I do love the whole look as it is.

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  15. My first thought was, "why not just put a photo in the slot"? Then I got to Tamra's comment. Oh, yes! Each pair needs a name....Then you could print the name in the colour of the shoe and sort them into columns by colour, alphabetically from top to bottom. OCD? Me? Nah!

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  16. OK... here's why i didn't do pictures of the shoes. I would have had to set up the light box, take the picture of each pair, download the pictures, edit them, put them into a format that would fit the little space and then print them and then cut each one out. Whew!

    With the names, all I had to do was create a little template and add the shoe name and print and cut. It was a massive time savings!

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  17. i like the idea with the names better than the shoe photographs. beside the time consuming all those colored images would look too busy, imho.

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