Doomsday Hoarders: 6 OCD Hacks to Organize Your Stockpile Chaos
by: Daisy Luther
TheOrganicPrepper.ca
December 31, 2014
Is your house like an unfortunate cross between Doomsday Preppers and Hoarders?
How do you store your preps? Are they neatly organized, where you can grab what you need at a moment’s notice? Are they a jumbled mess that makes your house look like an abandoned storage facility? Perhaps they are hidden chaos, tucked away neatly in drawers and closets, but with no rhyme or reason.
I always like to consider myself pretty organized. After all, my house is tidy (at least when people come over). I keep my food preps in one area, my medical preps in another area, and home supply preps in yet another area.
However, when my daughter burned her hand making Christmas cookies last week, it took me more than half an hour to find the aloe vera ointment to treat it. I used raw honey from the kitchen for immediate relief while I turned my medical supply closet upside down looking for it. Fortunately, it wasn’t a bad burn, but what if it had been? What if it had been some kind of crisis that require immediate and swift intervention and the First Aid items needed had been mixed in with the bathroom supplies?
Here’s something else. How many of you have sought in vain for an ingredient that you know you have 77 and 1/3 boxes of, only to have to go to the store to purchase it because you can’t find any of those elusive boxes?
When you stock up the way a lot of us do, organization is vital. Otherwise, important supplies go missing. You spend time searching for them and money replacing them, even though they’re lurking under your bed, taunting you from the shadows under there. Even worse, sometimes food expires while it’s tucked away, forgotten and unrotated into your kitchen, leaving you with pounds of edibles so stale that they can’t be consumed.
The biggest stockpile of supplies in the world won’t do you any good if you can’t find what you need when you need it. Should “getting organized” be your New Year’s resolution?
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