Friday Five
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Here’s this week’s Friday Five, happily posted before it’s Friday on the West Coast to freak out
- Would you consider yourself an organized person? Why or why not? I am definitely an organized person. I can’t stand it when anything necessary is out of place. I pay more than my roommates so I can have a private bath (both out of my cleanliness bug and the fact I need to keep things in order). I maintain catalogs of my CDs and DVD s, and update them as soon as I add something to the collection.
- Do you keep some type of planner, organizer, calendar, etc. with you, and do you use it regularly? I have my Hiptop which I carry everywhere and does all those functions. I use it all the time, although my “unencumbered” life lately doesn’t have me needing a lot of time organization. :)
- Would you say that your desk is organized right now? No, because there is an unnecessary CD, a tissue, and a slinky on the desk which do not belong there.
- Do you alphabetize CDs, books, and DVDs, or does it not matter? CDs: Alphabetical by artist, then chronological by (original) release date (with live and comp. CDs shifted all the way to the left (oldest)( Update: I mean all the way to the right). DVDs: Alphabetical (only violation of this is to group series together. i.e. John Waters’ collection is grouped under W).
- What’s the hardest thing you’ve ever had to organize? Cataloging and Ripping my CD collection was terrible as I waited until it was 350 CDs deep before getting started. Now that it is all done it is pretty easy to keep it updated. You will think I am crazy, but since I am such a neat freak about my desk, when I buy a new CD I don’t remove it from my desk until it is added to the spreadsheet, the webpage is updated from the spreadsheet, and the CD is ripped. That usually motivates me to update the catalog pretty quickly to avoid desk clutter. :)