Organised confusion

I’m not sure this week whether I actually hate my shed, or love it.

You see on the one hand I am thinking that whoever came up with the concept of a shed, came up with one of the best inventions ever.

After all when you have a shed you can throw all sorts of junk out into it and, well, that’s that, until of course you actually need to go to the shed to try and find something.

This can often be a problem. Especially if your shed looks like mine.

You see not everything is quite as easy to get your hands on in my shed as it might be in somebody else’s.

And yet the thing is, if it is in there, I usually have a fair idea of whereabouts it is.

Yep, that’s right - it’s not like I don’t have a system or anything - it’s just, well it is my system.

Okay it might be a bit of a stretch to call it a system, but I kinda know where the stuff is which usually means that I can find it... and sure isn’t that what counts in the end!

Still, every now and then I wonder why I can’t be more organised and be like some of the people I know who have sheds where everything is catalogued in rows and the tools are hung up in alphabetical order.

And then I remember... I have a life. 

I mean come off it. Who the heck has time to be standing working out whether spade, shovel or scythe comes first in their alphabetical line-up of tools?

Well okay, I’m pretty sure not too many people use a scythe these days, but you get my point.

And anyway, as I say, it’s not like I don’t have a system, it’s just that I usually tend to file most things, (well okay then everything), under ‘M’ for miscellaneous.

This filing system of course gives me a little bit of flexibility on where I can actually store things, which of course in reality just means – I can throw it anywhere into the shed.

But there is a problem with all of this and it brings me back to the start of the blog post, which is pretty unusual you’ll have to agree cos usually when I go off on a rant about stuff like this I tend to get sidetracked and, hey did you see that penalty in the Chelsea game tonight, a bit dodgy don’t you agree.

Ooops there I go again, almost sidetracked.

Oh yeah, the problem with just throwing stuff into the shed, is well, this…Sometimes when you want to get stuff out you might have to take about three hundred other things out first, climb over another few, move another couple around a bit and then hope it is in the corner you thought it was before you started.

I was thinking about this recently when I had to get something from my shed and had to wade through all sorts of crap to get it.

And then I wondered why half of this stuff was in there at all. 
Of course I knew why it was in there, it was because I was told to get rid of it last year when the last spring cleaning session was taking place.
And well, some of the stuff I thought might be useful and I decided, umm, I’ll get a chance to go through it again and I’ll sort it all out and then I’ll dump whatever is useless and keep the rest.

What a bloody lie!

Once it gets to the shed it just adds to the mountain of bikes and toys and old lamps and well all sorts of crap that, if you didn’t have a shed, you’d probably just get rid of.

Having mountains and mountains things stored away like that can really drive you crazy if you are trying to find something amidst all the junk.

But then again, it would probably be far worse if you didn’t have a system...