Thoughts on the Ugmonk Valet Tray
A couple posts ago I wrote about the three items that I purchased through Ugmonk.com.
What I would like to do is create separate blog posts about each item describing the feeling it gives me using it every day.
As the weeks and years pass I would like to keep adding more to each post to see how the relationship with each item has changed or stayed the same through time.
I’ve had this valet tray from Ugmonk.com for a week now and it’s already brining me a peace of mind.
There’s a satisfying feeling when you return home from a long day at work or walking up and down D.C. and you take out all your items from your pockets onto this tray.
It feels like a ritual like placing something sacred on an alter.
But the same way a father walks into the house and places his jacket, keys or hat onto the rack, it kind of like that.
Before, I would just throw my items wherever. One day my wallet will be on the dining table, yesterday it was on my bed between sheets, tomorrow it might be on the towel rack in the bathroom. Same with my keys, camera, business cards.
It’s how I’m always losing chap sticks and pens and have to keep going to Walgreens to get a pack.
All my morning essentials that I needed to take with me in the morning were never together in the same place and always at a new location in my home.
Every morning 5-7 minutes were wasted looking in panic for my wallet, phone, charging cable, work lanyard, metro card. And before the day even started I already developed a light sweat and breathing more heavily than a person who did a light morning jog…
It sounds so simple to put all items you leave the house with in one place.
It’s all mind set and the way my mind was working I wasn’t thinking about organization. Was never an organized person and thought some people have the skill to organize and some don’t. But we’re all capable of learning to organize and put structure into our lives.
Staying organized and the concept of creating a peaceful is still very new to me. But as I’m trying to reclaim my time and stop wasting it away, I need to create my personal space as efficient as possible. That means being able to move around freely, finding the things you need without having to turnover stones. It’s decluttering.
And it’s things like this tray that helping me organize my space better.
