One of the principles of organization of which I frequently have to remind myself is to allot yourself a given volume of space in which to store an item--the amount of your finite space you are willing to cede to having things of that category--and when you exceed that amount of space, prune mercilessly.

I have a large moving box in which I store smaller boxes in which to wrap gifts. I just found myself trying to figure out how to store more than would fit in that box. Now I'm breaking the excess down for the recycling pile.

aroraborealis has an excellent post of advice on How to Apologize.

This strikes me as a good meme--if anyone feels like picking it up, I think it could be very interesting. The idea is to post three things that you've learned that might seem obvious in retrospect, but are clever and generally useful:

- Microwaving ice cream for 10-20 seconds makes it much easier to serve.

- When re-heating mashed potatoes, adding a little more cream/milk makes them much nicer.

- When putting away leftovers, particularly noodles or rice, transferring them from the little box they came in to a plastic container (for example, the one the soup came in) keeps them from drying out in the fridge.