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You Better Organize (Dot Com)

Okay, so the phrase is "You better recognize".  But, say organize, as if you're saying recognize.

That's the title of this post.

So, we've been doing some organizing at work a little.  Spring cleaning, and just moving things around in the office.  Really, it's the intern student doing it.

He's chompin' at the bit to do things, so thats his current task.

So, far things are already a little better.  And he's been cleaning out some things and such.

One of the ideas that we discussed while the cleaning out and reorganizing was occurring...

Oh, wait, really quick... So our office at work, just to give a better idea, is just one room.  It's the "tech room".  So, there's about 5 desk spaces in that room.  There's my desk, my bosses desk, and my coworker's desk.  Then there's two table workspaces where the work study and intern student's sit.

That means, there's a lot of cross room chatter and banter.  I noticed, personally at least, that when there's a full staff abroad the ship... I do significantly less work.  Why?  Because we talk a lot.

This is why I've been doing more remote work in the evenings and on the weekends.  That way, people can come to the door, my coworkers can talk.... The intern and work-study students can talk too.  I can basically just do whatever during the day...

And then I can make up the work I don't get done in the evening remotely when I'm at home surrounded by cats.

I'd totally never get any work done at all if I had a roommate.

So glad my roommates are cats.

Plus I live in the burbs, on my own plot of land, with no neighbor being close enough for me to hear them even if they made noise.

Which is exactly how I like it.  Don't get me wrong, having an apartment is okay too... But, to be honest?  I'll never have an apartment ever again.

I'm always  going to own a house, and not one of those houses that touches my neighbor so you can still hear them beside you, or you have a little tiny bit of concrete separating the two of you.

Screw that.

I want lawn between us.  Lots of lawn.

I won't live in this house forever, but when I buy my next house, it will be equally as burbsy, or even possibly rurally or small towny.

Am I sounding like an obnoxious brat who inherited enough money that I have a choice to own property like that instead of being confined to only renting or buying some run down row home?  Absolutely.  And I'll own it.  But you know what, my grandparents and mom left me this money so I could do that.  I know people who were left money and spent a good amount of it traveling, or I know people who know people who spent their inheritance on drugs.  Okay, traveling... That's not too bad because you get the worldly culture experience and what not.  But drugs?  That's a waste.

So for me to put my money into property or homeownership?  I feel that in the subset of citizens on planet earth who inherit money... I'm one of the more responsible ones.

Plus it's not like I'm being some grinch.  Just two weeks ago I donated 100 bucks to a charity event.  SO... I don't want to hear it.

And I plan to write another 100 dollar check in the near future for a fund that helps disadvantaged youths attend summer camps.

So what if I LIKE living where I live?

I'm going to own it.  I'm just saying that city living, apartment life, and roommates, and confined spaces with close neighbors, like row homes... Just aren't for me.

Some people love it.  I know people who have willingly sold spacious houses in the burbs to move to the city to some crap little run down row home and fix it up.  I believe they're called hipsters.  Although my one friend hates that term... She just wanted to live in the city and wanted to buy something at a lower price than she would eventually sell it for by buying a house that needed work, then renovating it as she lived in it, and then selling it later on.

Fair enough.

She complains all the time about her parking situation and neighbors being loud.

Just saying, if you'd never left the burbs...

Okay, so anyways... So, we were chatting at work in this room... and one of the things we came up with is a website that gives you organization options.

It probably already exists because everything already exists.

But we were saying there should be an organization site.  You put in the room type...

1. Office
2. Room in a house
3. Apartment
4. Residence Hall

Etc. etc.

Then you drag and drop items to where they currently are.

Desks, chairs, tables, lamps, dressers, whatever...

Then you click, optimize and re-organize.

It tells you where the best place to move things is to get the most optimal use out of the space.

Obviously, it wouldn't be perfect.  Because each space it really up to your own personal preference and likes.

But It might give you some ideas for where to move things around!

So, whether you like a little itty bitty living space, like The Genie in Aladdin.  Or you're like me and you want a sprawling suburban home with lots of lawn and a driveway to park in... It will help give you ideas as to where to put your crap to get more out of the space.

And obviously monetizing it would be easy-peasy because you could just link to specials or furniture sites or whatever.  You could even do a thing where when someone does a reorganization, they can drag and drop new things into the room, and those items would be actual things they could buy...

And if they click the link NOW and buy NOW, they get a special discount pricing.  Now being at the time they did the organize your space mapping.

Or you can save rooms and we'll send you special items and special pricing or let you know when things go on sale that you've saved to put in that room, but you just don't quite want to spend the money yet.

Like, we'll optimize your room, then you can fit more stuff, and we'll let you know when things go on sale.  Or just link you to things that might work better.  Maybe replace instead of add.  Or maybe if there's things you want to sell from the room, like upgrade your couch, or dresser, we'll even connect you to possible buyers who might be good matches for things to fit in their own room!

Actually, I just thought of that, and that's an awesome idea.

Like, if people map out their spaces and then they don't want something, they can click "I don't want this" and then it will go out and find other rooms where that might fit perfectly and then it will notify that person that a match has been found.

It's like matching/dating site but for organizing your living/working spaces.

Actually, if that doesn't exist.  I'm seriously considering trying to start that.

That's a pretty cool idea.  It probably already exists though.

It's kind of like Craigslist, or eBay or that "let go" site... Except it matches and organizes the space for you and connects you with people who it thinks might have something that might fit, or connects you to someone who might have something that might fit.  Or connects you to store sales, or specials.  Or just connects you to shopping sites to optimize your space on an optimized budget.

Pretty neat, right?  I thought so.

Get it?  I used "neat" because it's a room organizer site.  Aren't I witty?  You know it!