I feel more brilliant than I should for this idea
In my combined ongoing quests to get the house organized into something I can maintain and to listen to books as a way of paring down my To Read list, I would keep running into the same problem over and over. I kept going into a room to work and realizing that I had no headphones/earbuds with me. Commence time-suck to find a pair, which usually ended with me frustratedly grabbing the nice pair I keep in my bag so I can always escape, noise-wise. When I was done, I would invariably leave them in place where I was working, so they would be there when I went back. Only, you know, I'd go somewhere else, or be out of the house and want my earbuds, and find that I didn't have them anymore- I'd left them in the room I was sorting. Finally, while trying to figure out what to do with the growing pile of cheap/free/old but still operable headphones and earbuds I untangled from the corners of the office, I was struck by a flash of genius insight: Why don't I just make regular storage homes for these wherever I might need them? So now I have a pair of headphones in the couch storage compartment, earbuds in my nightstand, the entry table, my desk drawer, the craft room/guest room desk drawer, and in the basement. The cheap little things will do the job they need to in those rooms: they won't get beaten up so bad the way my carry-around ones do, and since they are always there, a set is always on hand while leaving a pair in my bag for when I leave. Like I said, I shouldn't feel so damn proud of this, but I am so pleased with the results, I just had to share. Unfortunately, I'm not sure who to share with-- most NTs don't get it. Either why I have this issue or why I feel good about my solution/insight. Or they think I'm just being adorably strange, it feels like. But hey, maybe it'll be a good idea for someone else out there, too.
