It may sound immodest, but I think I’ve discovered I’m an organizational genius. I had to find this out through an act of less-than-genius, though: starting our coffeemaker the other morning with no carafe to catch the cascading brew. After the hot coffee spread across the counter, it dripped into our “spice drawer” — the drawer where we keep spices and also things that aren’t spices, like batteries, herbal health preparations and kitchen-related curios. In the process of cleaning up the mess, I had a flash of insight — perhaps the equivalent of Newton’s apple — that if I lay the spice jars on their sides, instead of standing them endwise, that I’d be able to read their labels without doing a jar-by-jar search, as I’ve become accustomed to doing over the years. E=mc something! E pluribus unum!
So that’s what I did. And if that’s not organizational genius, I don’t know what it is.
As they say in the Guiness ads: Brilliant!
Too bad you weren’t a little quicker with your discovery, or you could make a mean profit. Did a quick search, and found this helpful drawer-organizer:
http://www.stacksandstacks.com/html/12001_spice-rack-liner-expandable.htm
Clearly we should have covered this on Tech Live.