Ten everyday struggles that only extremely disorganised people will relate to
Getting through life in a constant state of chaos isn’t easy, but somehow you make it work.
Every day is a constant battle against your lack of organisation and you often end the day amazed that you made it through unscathed.
Here are some things that only seriously disorganised people will understand:
1. You never have matching socks
Even though you specifically remember queuing up at the shops and purchasing several dozen packs of socks in your lifetime, your underwear drawer continues to be the place that single, mismatched socks go to live out their days.
Every morning is a struggle to try and put together a pair in vaguely similar hues or patterns in the hope that nobody at your work notices.
2. You feel like you spend half of your life looking for lost items
Whether it’s the car keys that you had in your hand just a second ago or the mobile phone that’s frustratingly on silent, there’s always something that you’re searching for ahead of leaving the house.
Naturally, these items always turn up in the most random places, like in the fridge or tucked under the sofa – but only after you’ve completely upturned the house looking for them.
3. You’re always double-booking people
One of your more irritating personal traits is that you quite often agree to plans and then blissfully forget all about them. Yes, we know there’s Google calendar, but who needs all those pesky reminders?
Inevitably, when the date rolls around, you get bombarded by texts from a bunch of different mates who you’ve made separate commitments to. Oops.
4. You’re always late for everything
You hate to admit it, but you’re that person that’s always sprinting to the train platform and screaming ‘hold the doors!’ to random strangers, bursting into meetings 10 minutes after they’ve begun and leaving friends to sit in the pub alone while they wait for you.
You don’t mean to be late, you just seem to get distracted by everything and anything.
5. You have made an effort to try to be organised
You often have moments where you think ‘enough now’ and resolve to change your disorganised ways. This usually results in an expensive trip to a stationary shop where you load up on notebooks, planners and diaries, which you use religiously for about a week, until you shove them to the back of a drawer to collect dust.
6. Your inbox is overflowing with emails
Instead of reading, deleting and filing your emails, you just comb through and find the important ones – then let the rest sit unread. Your unread emails is now at such a horrifying number that you worry you’ll never be at inbox zero ever again. But hey, you didn’t choose the disorganised life, it chose you.
7. Marie Kondo would pass out if she could see your bedroom
The piles of unwashed clothes, the dirty coffee mugs, the unidentified objects that crunch underfoot as you try to make your way to your bed… your bedroom definitely doesn’t spark joy, but you’re simply too lazy to sort it out.
8. Your friends lie about the start times
You often get tricked by your friends because they know that the only reliable thing about you is that you’re always late. Flight times, cinema screenings, birthdays… you’re sometimes actually on time because they lie about the start time.
9. Your disorganisation has cost you a lot of money over the years
You’d hate to know how much money you’ve spent on items that could have been avoided if you’d planned ahead. The umbrellas, the lost passports, the takeaway lunches… it’s cost you a small fortune over the years.
10. You envy people that have everything organised
You really admire those people that show up five minutes early to everything, have their life in order and always seem to look perfectly put together.
Seriously, what is the secret to their organised success? You hope that one day you’ll magically transform into the type of person that has all of your receipts and bills in a neat folder, or never has to send yourself password reminders to sign into your emails. Until then, you can only dream.
