I’m not the cleaner in the family (I leave all the dirty work to Mike), but I am the organizer. Drawers, bins, files, and folders with Color labels help me keep everything in its place and help Mike to put things back where I like them.

I haven’t always been so neat and tidy. When I was in school, I would start out with all my pencils, pens, and papers in proper order, and by the second week of school my tiny desk was stuffed full and my backpack a disaster. If I would have fallen in love with my Dymo label maker just a decade sooner, I would have been teacher’s pet.

Just think - I would have stuck a label with book titles to the spine of every brown paper bag covered book in my desk. I could have easily picked my lunch bag out of the cabinet with my name labeled on the front. My Trapper Keeper wouldn’t have been tragically stolen if I had a Dymo label maker to help brand it as mine! Sigh.

I freely admit my devotion to my Dymo label maker, and take the poking and prodding from Mike in stride, because I know just where our 2005 taxes are, which storage container contains the Halloween decorations, and can go straight to the drawer with the birthday cards thanks to my handy labels.