I’ve seen it time and time again with folks who’ve gotten all excited about creating order in their lives. They run out to buy a bunch of prefab organizers, set them up, and are initially thrilled with how much better their space functions – hooray! Then a week or a month (or even a year) down the road, their systems aren’t working as well as they used to. All of a sudden, they can see the built-in flaws hiding behind their shiny new gadgets. And that’s when they start talking to themselves:
“If only it did _____ as well – that would solve all my problems.”
“This would work so much better if one section were designed to _____. Why has no one thought of that?”
“I wish they made one that stores _____. They’re totally missing out on this segment of the market!”
HAVE IT YOUR WAY
The problem with a good many off-the-shelf organizing products is that they box you in – there’s no real flexibility in how you can use them. And to be fair, it’s not the manufacturer’s fault. (Mass-produced merchandise almost always ends up dumbed down to the lowest common denominator – so it will appeal to a large number and wide variety of consumers, without costing an arm and a leg.) There are as many different ways to organize as there are people on the planet. And these companies’ only failure is that they can’t even begin to imagine the millions of different ways each individual human being might try to utilize their products. (Let’s be honest – even if they could, creating an assembly-line solution for every need is logistically and financially impractical.) But the good news is, there’s a better way. With customization, you can have a completely unique organizer made on the spot to your exact specifications – designed to perfectly suit your tastes (like a Whopper), instead of how someone else THINKS you want it!
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