Is it just me?

Is anyone else buried in piles of supplies of things that will make your life easier?

I've been planning to make chore charts. I can't tell you how many iterations of chore chart styles I've attempted. They usually work for a little while. Currently I have a bedroom inspection checklist I use which is working pretty well.

But I wanted to make something for around-the-house chores, using a card-and-pocket system. So that I could rotate the chores without re-printing (which, for me, usually entails redoing from scratch) ... something that could list the expectations, and be moved from one pocket to another when done.

A long time ago I requisitioned supplies from The Grand Lunar on an office supply run or general WalMart trip. Being the sweet and helpful man he is, he procured my requested supplies. Which I stored with all the other supplies from past chore chart attempts, like dry erase markers, magnetized white boards, multi-colored sharpies, and too-slippery-to-write-on laminated pages.

Today, I'm working again, or still, on the chore chart pocket idea. But the poster board I have isn't full size. I can't remember if that's because I had some clever idea for smaller ones? One per child? And I have no idea where I put the multi-colored index cards. To find them will entail, I believe, an entire clean-out of the 'school supply armoire' ~ a task that makes my heart sink.

I really shouldn't be entrusted with *stuff* to store. I always put it somewhere "safe" thinking I'll remember where. And it gets buried in other stuff I'm setting aside "for later" in a disorganized and frightening fashion.

So now I'm stumped because I have made a chore chart plan, and I have all of the supplies, but some of them aren't what I thought I needed, anymore, and other pieces are lost.

Maybe I'd be better off dreaming up a new system.