The lost and found basket
Dec 5th, 2007 by Jill
One of the things that keeps me from feeling overwhelmed by other people’s stuff (and that helps keep me from feeling like a nag at the same time) is our house lost and found. It’s a big basket that we keep on the window seat in the dining room. When I find something laying around that belongs to someone else and I don’t feel like figuring out where it goes, I put it in the basket. Everybody else in the house can do the same thing. It’s the first place we look if something’s lost. When it starts to overflow, we take everything out of it as a group, claim and put away the stuff we want, and throw away what’s left.
