Org porn
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Defcon 5: Org Porn Alert
by Sarah on Monday, December 5th, 2011 | 4 comments
Open your mailbox any day this month and its sure to contain at least a few glossy catalogs or magazines, the pages of which are filled to bursting with gorgeously decorated living rooms, artfully set tables, and gifts wrapped with a flourish. Log on to the Internet and the visual feast continues. Big sites and ... [read more] -
Guilt-free (dis)organization: OK or a cop-out?
by Sarah on Tuesday, September 27th, 2011 | 13 comments
Whenever I give a talk, one of the first questions I always ask the group assembled is: who here considers themselves organized? Usually one or two timid hands go about half-way up; the owners of those hands not quite believing they really are all that organized. When I ask who feels like they’re losing the battle, ... [read more] -
Wednesday’s Dose of Sunshine: Go Ahead, Oogle Over A Little Org Porn
by Sarah on Wednesday, January 27th, 2010 | 2 comments
We like to joke around here about a little something we call org porn. You know, all those dreamy images where everything is serene, pristine and perfectly in order? They're problematic because we tend to compare ourselves and our general state of organization to those (unrealistic) images. If you think ... [read more] -
Are Women Addicted to Org Porn?
by Sarah on Monday, March 23rd, 2009 | 7 comments
Alicia Rockmore and Sarah Welch, the authors of Everything (Almost) In Its Place, a book about how to get realistically organized, warned of the downsides of consuming too much ‘org porn.’ Negative self-image. Fantasy-induced over-spending. Marital tension. A new kind of airbrushed fantasy-land is wreaking havoc on our homes and our psyches: org porn. ... [read more]

















