Sweet Mama!
Will those folks on Snuffy Smith ever get organized? Decades go by and they can’t seem to fix the roof, get the wood chopped, get homework done on time, or have enough food on hand for the preacher or the visiting flat-lander relatives.
Today’s strip gives me the heebie-jeebies.You can see it in the daily paper but not at Snuffy Smith online. The online version runs weeks behind the print version.
Ma and her friend, Elviney, are chatting-it-up in the front porch rockers. The friend says “I hate throwin’ stuff out only to find out later ya coulda used it.” Ma responds with “Me too Elviney. That’s why I don’t throw it very far.” The strip then shows a huge heap of clutter piled outside next to the house.
Art imitates life. A decade old cartoon, about a run-down hillbilly cabin, contains the same clutter that keeps people from putting their car in their garage. There are shoes, boots, ladders, purses, fish bowl, lamp shade, coffee mugs, boxes, buckets, broken pieces and assorted playing cards in the cartoon pile.
Those could be divided into the most popular organizing excuses:
- I don’t have time to deal with this stuff.
- I don’t have a home for this stuff.
- I might need it some day.
Snuffy Smith needs to visit www.napo.net and find a professional organizer from the National Association of Professional Organizers. He can search by zipcode or find one that travels up in them-there hills.
One of us will come out and help Ma and Pa to make good decisions about what they really need to keep, where they need to keep it and slap a label on it so they can find it. Then we’ll help them develop some family routines for homework times, grocery shopping and meal planning and a to-do list to get that cabin in ship-shape.
You might be thinking “horsefeathers,” but if Mr. John Rose would write a flat-lander hotsie-totsie organizer into the strip, it would be a hoot!
By the way “sweet mama,” “horsefeathers,” “heebie-jeebies” and “hotsie-totsie” are all phases that became popular through the Suffy Smith strip, according to their website.
