My blog entry titles are beginning to look like an excerpt from Poor Richard's Almanac!

As my quest for a streamlined home continues, I am finding that I have a lot of things that are supposed to help me get more organized--tubs and bins, binders and folders, books and crates.  All of which are only semi serving their purpose. 

One such item is a sweet little red recipe notebook I purchased at a recent homeschool conference.  At the time, it looked perfect--the answer to my recipe nightmare (that is another blog in and of itself! lol)  It had a vast array of tabs and sleeves to make my recipes oh so user friendly.  However, it has done nothing of the sort.  What it has accomplished is gathering a 1" thick layer of dust as it sits politely on my extra table.  It is not helping me a bit!!

Tonight in a moment of epiphany, I realized that this (along with many other organizational type things) were not going to really fix my organization issues.  As FlyLady says, "You Can't Organize Clutter."  However, after this revelation, came the realization that I had spent a goodly amount on this special little recipe binder and I would never, ever get that money back out of it.

Tonight, I growled to my husband, "I hate it when I waste money like that!" 

My husband in his wonderful way said, "I imagine there is someone who would just love that for a wedding present.  Don't call it a waste of money, just a re-allocation of funds."

Thank you, God, for a husband with perspective!