Where Do You Keep Your Feet?

Getting-Ready-For-Summer weekend chores included putting new feet on the wrought iron patio furniture. The furniture was purchased over the years and occasionally needs a bit of freshening up. A coat of green spray paint and replacing those white glide-across-the-deck feet make the weary furniture come to life for another summer of enjoyment.

The issue seemed to be that no one at the store could locate the feet. Sometimes it is easier and faster to think like the object you are looking for. This can work when you are looking for a file at work or an object in a huge home improvement store. There are so many items that we need to consider what like items with which it might associate.

Indeed the round leg inserts for wrought iron furniture were found in the aisle with the other products that go on the bottom of furniture legs--gliders, sliders and castors.

This is an example of the classic organizing principle of Like Goes With Like. When we identify a single attribute that numerous items possess, we can put them in one category. It becomes easier to find when we need it at work, home or when we are simply doing weekend chores.

Do you have a challenge finding things? We would like to hear about it.