True, the planning phase is where I always fool myself into thinking I'm efficient. Like last month, I scanned my closet with an app and it suggested a perfect system, but then I spent three days debating if my socks should be sorted by color or season. Ended up buying divider boxes that didn't fit, so I had to return them and start over. The physical part? I pulled everything out and then just stared at the pile for a weekend, overwhelmed. So yeah, the system saved me maybe an hour of thinking, but cost me a week of second-guessing and manual labor. Sometimes I wonder if I'm just better off with the chaos...

Back when my cousin was fixing up his century home, he pulled up the kitchen linoleum and found newspapers from the 1920s used as underlayment. We spent an hour reading classified ads for Model Ts and local gossip. It was like a time capsule, with stories about bootlegging raids right there in the neighborhood. He ended up framing a few pages and hanging them in the hallway. Makes you wonder what everyday stuff we're burying for future generations to find.