The Container Store Heaven

It being Spring and all, I decided to clean out my closet this weekend. I filled a large garbage bag with items I hadn’t worn in – this is ridiculous – several months. After the great purge of ‘08, I also decided to reorganize.

My foremost goal was to get the pile of shoes, overflowing from my existing shoe organizer, into some semblance of order and to rid myself of a wooden chest that served as a repository for both bills and recent issues of periodicals. Clearly, to remove things from the chest, I would need to put them someplace else. The obvious choice to provide a solution, even though I had never been, was the new retail outlet of The Container Store.

A few months ago, when someone at work told me that The Container Store was opening in Little Rock, I think my comment was, “Seems sort of limited.” I couldn’t have been more wrong. The Container Store is, pure and simple, heaven for those of us with OCD tendencies. If you need to organize something, The Container Store has a solution.

I purchased an expandable shoe rack (for up to 13 pairs), a magazine rack (3 slots that hold approximately 10 magazines each), a letter organizer (for bills and other mail), a pen and pencil holder, and a paper-backed, lined journal for note taking at work. The letter organizer and pen and pencil holder are both white (to match my MacBook). I placed them on top of my chest of drawers where I charge my computer. Total bill: $89 and change. Overpriced? You bet.

Still, I’m thoroughly pleased. I ridded myself of a clunky, wooden chest that I never liked that much and, more importantly, everything in my closet now has a home. You can’t put a price on that kind of peace of mind. Those of you who are reading this, and aren’t so anal as I am, probably can’t understand what I’m blabbering on about. But I’ve no doubt that some of you do…