Tupperware Organization {with full disclosure}

Um. I have to admit something to you. 

I have a discipline problem. 

I'm great with intentions and planning and envisioning the perfect _______ . 

(Just fill in the blank.) 

But I'm not very good with follow-through. If it's a short term, projecty, 

boom-and-then-it's-over kind of a thing then I really shine. But the laundry . . .

Coming to this realization has been really helpful. 

Any new attempts to get my life in order are made with more realistic expectations, hoping for modest gains, and once I find a system I can maintain I feel a real sense of achievement.

Enter my tupperware problem. Does this look familiar to you? 

It occurred to me a year and a half ago that the frustrating experience of never being able to find a matching lid and barely being able to close the tupperware drawer could maybe (maybe?) be remedied.

So I took everything out, stacked like shapes, and threw away any lids with out bottoms and vice versa.  I came up with the brilliant plan (via google) to keep lids in a separate container and I found an old plastic crate in the garage to corral the bottoms.

Then I waited to see if I would follow through and keep up the system. 

A week passed. A month. A year. 

And so, it is with great pride that I present to you my tupperware drawer a year and a half later ~

 

Ta da! I have a new and improved green crate and (you may notice) 

my super-organization has resulted in some color-coordinated decorating pride.

{Full disclosure: This is what the other counter looked like when I took this picture.}

And, my little helper . . .

Three cheers for self-awareness, low expectations, and little victories!