Watching reruns of 30 Rock last night (while we should have been doing laundry) we cracked up when we heard this quote from the always-hilarious Tina Fey as modern woman Liz Lemon...
Tina Fey as Liz Lemon on "Decorganizing"
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Walking through Rockefeller Plaza with two giant "Compartment Store" bags in her hands, Liz tells Kenneth about her reawakening:
I went to the new flagship Compartment Store on Fifth Avenue and bought everything I need to get my life in order.
There was a stacker thing to separate your junk mail from your humidifier catalogs, a thing you stick on your laptop that holds your keys, a round plastic deal that holds your shoes with a pocket for a photograph of what shoes are in there.
I'm going to become wonderful. It's a new beginning, like a Phoenix rising...
At this point, a bike messenger knocks her over, and the delusion of her decorganizing fantasy dawns on her, as she says, "...or maybe this is gonna be the worst day ever."
She goes on to deal with jury duty, dysfunctional employees, and a brush with arson. Uggh, the crushing defeat of realizing that plastic bins won't change your life.
Quote above comes from the "Funcooker" episode, Season 3.
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Oh Lemon how I love you.
That picture is reeeaaaalllllyyyy creepy.
Was her head shopped onto a child's body?
view birdablaze's profile
She's like me: Buying more clutter to organize my clutter. Bike messengers are after me, too.
view rosenatti's profile
@Birdablaze - I think it's just a really unflattering dress.
view christinalouise's profile
HA! fabulous.
view zachary's profile
What!?! Buying a bunch of stuff won't make my life organized?
view lizsh's profile
i LOVE that picture
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The good thing about tubs and boxes and bins, be it the actual shoe box or its plastic variant, they help keep things CORALLED so they don't get out of hand.
Since I don't have a spare drawer that I can use as a junque (yes, spelled that way on purpose) drawer, a plastic tub w/ lid that's a bit bigger than a shoebox works perfectly for that purpose as it's a consolidation of 2 shoeboxes that were the culminations of the actual junque drawers I had in an old apartment that I've gone through and consolidated. when I need it, it's right there on the closet shelf in the bedroom, easy to get to, old bills get stored in old shoe boxes and each year I pull out the oldest set and shred and reuse a box if empty for the next year's bills.
If I need a hammer, I know where to get it, in the toolbox in the front hall closet, same for the vacuum cleaner and if I need an audio or video cable, I know where to go, in the same closet in a blue Rubbermaid tub.
So they do help, as long as you go at it in a logical, organized fashion and are consistant in putting things back in the same place every time.
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yup, it's the cut of the dress but I like the funkiness of the photo.
view Sassy in SF's profile
The Village from The Prisoner. Patrick McEwen's (sp?) apartment particularly. sigh...I have no idea why he didn't want to live there!
view jbull's profile
I love Liz Lemon!!
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