About M5's Wall of Labeled Storage Bins
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Tested member Megadope Animation asked Adam, "What was the deal with Jamie’s wall of labeled storage bins?" Adam happened to be there during their inception, so here's the story! Join this channel to support Tested and get access to perks:
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Oh I have the answer! It is
The name of Jerry Epstein’s ....
Hey Adam, I know you don't speak to Jamie a lot after Mythbusters, but does he still have M5?
Hey Adam, I just found out your Dad made a Anti-war movie protesting the Vietnam war staring Mickey Mouse (without permission) back in the day with a friend, Adam do you know anything about that or have anything you can share about that?
Do you still work with Jamie?
This is why I hate when those “unknown facts of Mythbusters” sites talk about Adam and Jamie hating each other. Everything I’ve heard says that they respect the heck out of each other, but their personalities clash and they are not friends. I have had several work relationships like that myself and I would never say that I hated the other person.
True fact. You don’t have to be friends to be good coworkers. I work well with a lot of people at my job, very few of whom are friends outside of work.
Its not as if they’ve ever tried to hide they arent friends. It was frequently mentioned on the show. I guess the people who write those “untold stories” clearly haven’t seen the show.
A lot of publications will try to find the most dramatic lends to frame a story in order to get the most clicks/ views on their article.
I'm pretty sure that like, Jamie Hyneman is number three or four on Adam Savage's emergency contact list.
If only because an emergency involving Adam Savage is at least 10% likely to involve some kind of elaborate disaster like being stranded on Rockall or something and there's really no better single person on the planet to contact for help in such a weird situation!
@dfss csss yes almost always the best coworker is just that a coworker not family not close friends just a coworker and that's perfectly fine
I’ve never been able to find it again but I know for a fact that I once paused an episode and seen a bin labeled “Jedi Mind Tricks”
Some Jedi probably made you forget when and where you saw it. "This isn't the bin you're looking for."
I saw one labeled "Adam's cookies" once. Which is a callback to the early seasons where Jamie said Adam needed another cookie. (Basically saying he forgot to eat and that's why he was acting up)
I love that Adam tells us this story right in front of the organized chaos of materials, tools, props, Iron Man armour and things that is his shop.
My shop is getting like that. It still looks like chaos, but I'm getting to the point where I know where everything is and can get it in a few seconds. Moving stuff to get to other stuff gets tiring and you forget about the stuff not visible.
But, no lie, having a full Iron Man suit in titanium would be cool.
@@tiacho2893 With Adams Shop Im also totally sure that the Iron Man is at the exact right spot where it doesnt hinder him working. I think visual chaos is something different than functional chaos - but who are we to talk under a video of Adam xD
My shop totally looks like that too, and I honestly love the visual of it
@@jonanas.mp4 Yeah, my lumber rack is ordered but the system is not obvious. To anyone else, it just looks like a bunch of unsorted lumber on a steel rack.
And I think a good example of visual/functional chaos is a bookshelf. I saw an interior designer suggest using coloured paper book jackets on your books for aesthetics (now how the hell do you find anything). Yeah, if only every fiction/nonfiction writer i read/own had decided to use a singular colour/design scheme just for me to have a pretty bookshelf.
BTW, I did some catering work a few years ago to help a friend out. One client had at minimum 4-5 thousand dollars in French copper pots/pans nicely arrayed in his kitchen. And not a single pan showed signs of ever being used. I own two of the pans there but the whole set was being used only for the visual and had zero functional use in that setting. Mine look like hell because they get used.
@@tiacho2893 And he is that way based on all of these questions answered videos. The amount of times he goes off camera for like 5 seconds and comes back with a prop is very high.
@@Mathadar Obviously no offense against Adam, I love him, the videos and his shop! :)
I love that in the later seasons in M7 they had similar boxes labeled with stuff like "Flux Capacitors" and "Kryptonite"
Sadly those were just props instead of having any real use. The later seasons really pushed away from the core that made up MB.
"Raw Meat"
@@WalkerRileyMC Oh really? You mean they didn't actually have real Kryptonite? Damn childhood ruined
@@WalkerRileyMC I never really enjoyed the later seasons, they felt way too over produced. The original seasons and cast felt more 'back yard/garage' style
@@WalkerRileyMC I remember an old tour video Jamie did of M5 and talked about how they added boxes to his wall like Raw Meat. You could tell he was kinda annoyed lol.
As someone with a library sciences education working in the commercial sector I love to see when people come across and understand the value of a good index, which is what Jamie created, a giant Index. So many people get caught up in the ordering of an index that they forget that providing meaningful context to the user is what's important.
Ask any good seamstress what their dream workspace is... and there's a very high probability of an index in one form or another. Any one with a profession or hobby that requires/benefits from a large variety of on hand instruments and items literally drool over Jamie's wall. It was perfectly imperfect.
I really do think that filming Mythbusters and using that storage wall as a background was a fantastic idea for the show. It really showed off how much it was just 2 guys taking ideas online to mess around with and just build some weird contraptions to try and make it work in 2 hours and try and test something weird.
I would love if photos of the topic could be shown in the video instead of just the thumbnail
Yeah, this have been happening a lot. Would love to have some photos of the things Adam talks about show up in frame.
It's likely that the rights to use those images are different and complicated to negotiate.
@@jeremyhellen8234 but if they got it for the thumbnail then they can show it in the video.
@@ColtonSatmary not necessarily. There can be restrictions oh how a image is used even if you have permission to use it.
@@jeremyhellen8234 I doubt it, on youtube "fair use" of anything pretty much covers that. That's why you can see so many reaction videos of entire music videos etc, as long as the "reactor" pauses every now and then and don't show the video in full screen.
The labels on that wall were a game for my family to try to find the funniest one every episode!
That is awesome ☆
Us too!
Same here!
Whats the all time favorite?
Raw meat was always my fav...it seemed to show up a lot though.
This wall is part of what Mythbusters made it, what it is. It's such a cool background.
It's like a Zoom call in front of a full book case. It's visual storytelling.
Also, I think Adam mentioned once that he loves that sort of visual order/organisation and finds it calming. But he admitted that he can't be assed to do it himself.
honestly, i would get so weirdly happy when it actually would be used during the testing/scale build phase
This man's respect for Jamie is always evident in the way he talks about him. Both very hardworking men doing great things. I wonder what Jamie is up to these days...
Perfect backdrop, full of ridiculous possibilities!
My grandfather's shop in 1980 was Jamie's wall of labeled bins in cabinets. If you opened any cabinet, you would see bins and boxes all labeled in red pen on masking tape. It was a testament to his organization skills that outlasted him. For years after his death, I could find 30 grit sandpaper (i guess for buffing Mt Rushmore?), 120 grit sandpaper, 135 grit or 600 grit or 1200. He had showed me how to work my way up the grades so that a piece of fine wood could be butter soft--my words--to the touch. Nails? Dowels? Screwdrivers? Drill bits? It was all perfectly findable at a moment's thought. I aced grade school science projects thanks to his shop's organization. Adam, thank you for helping me remember something I'd forgotten.
I am reminded of Adam's quote that drawers are where things go to die.
I've been redoing the fastener/small parts storage of my shop with Festool sorting cases. Buying a box of screws for a job/project because you can't find the part box that you know you have somewhere, gets really annoying. While organising, I found four part boxes of #8 1 1/4" screws!
"I think we have a picture we can put up here?"
Nope, guess not
Far from the first time they've done this. It's like there's 0 communication between Adam and the editor about each video that at MM:SS there should be a relevant picture (the thumbnail even)
@@aikumaDK I'm guessing it's more a licensing issue. Any image from Mythbusters is presumably owned by Discovery and they can't just be thrown into another company's commercial output.
Adam's covered this before. Most of his prior work, whether with Discovery or ILM, has licensing issues that often can't be cleared before he posts. The other issue is the money. Discovery apparently is more flexible with it than ILM is, but the fee would wipe any revenues generated by the video.
@@chiefsilverback Apparently they *can* use it as a thumbnail...
@@chiefsilverback Then what about the thumbnail? I guess they can use some temporary close-up of Adam until the license goes through, but I'd much prefer they just pushed the video a day or two.
These raw, hardly edited uploads are great. No overcomplicated effects and cuts. Just a story.
When I was a kid I always laughed when I saw the box labeled "Raw Meat", and I still do. I bought some bankers boxes for the first time the other day, and I'm blown away by them despite their simplicity. Instant box, with handles and a lid, with insane stacking capacity, no tape or staples required. It's a work of genius.
Thanks for answering my question! Made my month!
Nice job dude!
Great question!
Cool voice btw.
The problem I always had with large-scale organizing like this is deciding the types of labels to use and where to put items that fall under multiple categories. It's better than having no organization at all, but it's not usually as organized as cleanly as I'd like it to be.
That storage wall always fascinated me and everytime I saw it I tried reading as many labels as I could. Thanks for talking about it, it definitely inspires me to keep my tools more organized.
A small part of me expects to see sawdust come out when he sneezes
My thoughts were: "It's not a tumah!"
@@ElectroDFW But .. is it Lupus?
@@EricScheid it's never Lupus
@@EricScheid what Blue Lantern said. Lol
Great pfp!!!
This reminds me of something my ex said. “Why are you staring at that pile of junk”. I turned to her and said “well, there’s ideas in there.”
Adam said something that my ex used to say as well, " I need it to squirt, I need to spray, I need it in sheets ..."
Nice.
She didn’t get and that’s why she’s your ex...
I think it only works this way when it is your stuff and your organisation.
I love how Adam is physically incapable of quoting Jamie without doing an impression
"Jamie moved into m5 in 98"
wow he's been working out of there for basically my entire life
You know, the early aughts
It’s crazy, because I was born in 98
This whole story explains so much about Adam and his current workshop. About how he builds things, why he keeps so much stuff. During his formative years he learned to keep all the things just in case and to build things fast as he can. Maybe he needs to buy some filing boxes?
it's unreal how much time you lose when you don't have something you need in stock. I dont keep a ton of stuff in my little workshop but i always have some 2x4s, plywood, steel tubing, and fasteners on hand since I use those items regularly. otherwise I'd spend every day at the hardware store.
The holistic approach, to show all you have in one glance, is what I preach everywhere I work with people. Also Adams first order retrieveability has become my mantra in my own home, nothing from the kitchen to the office is more then one layer deep.
You can't undervalue the inspirational factor. I've often been puzzling over a problem when my eye caught on something you might think was completely irrelevant but it sparked the solution I needed!
When I was much younger I was always amazed that my grandfather always had the perfect screw, nail, glue, anchor, rope, string, piece of leather, scrap of aluminum, small widget, or large doohickey for any project that he was working on. I remember thinking "how does he do that? I'll never have a collection this cool." Now, 30 years later I totally understand. After a lifetime of projects, you end up with all those thing. The important part is keeping it all organized in little bins, drawers, and trays. It is possibly the greatest memory I have of my grandfather and that best thing he ever taught me.
I just moved to a new house and don't really know what the doorbell even sounds like. Adam's chimes made me nearly jump out of my seat.
I've never had a doorbell that makes that sound and I still sometimes look outside
I know what my doorbell sounds like and I still looked up like "What? It's nighttime!"
@@rogue3398 It's a HoSmart entrance/driveway alarm, good stuff with a wireless range of a half mile or so.
That shelf inspired the way I organize my own workshop. Lots of labelled bins along the walls, plus stacked boxes, so it's easy to just look them over and find something. And in honor of the "raw meat" bin, the miscellaneous junk boxes are labeled "spare brains" and "fish" 😁
I love seeing how much Adam respects Jamie, despite saying they didn’t get along well on Mythbusters.
I respect my boss, and he does me. but we definitely dont jive well at work. We approach things from disparate perspectives and wind up butting heads
Adam never does any Jamie impressions anymore. 😭😭😭
Thank you so much for answering questions from people. That really meant a lot to me. Keep building and being awesome.
In all my time of watching the show, there was one box that was in shot of the camera quite often and always caught my eye, it was just a big label saying “RAW MEAT”
"once you lost track of where it is, you lost it" - I'll get to work on my inventory!
This was one of the most revelatory videos I've ever watched!
Much as I loved the weird stuff wall as a comedy device, truly understanding it and the reasoning behind it makes me want to reorganize my own space. Keep being awesome, Adam and all friends of the community!
The hyneman method of labeling and storage was my go to when i did props in theater, it was also a long, narrow, high ceiling space, and those labeled boxes were the only thing i was anal about, i spent probably 50 hours reorganizing the prop room and it worked great
I taught myself to weld so I could fabricate shelves like that after an older video where you described the construction, you showed a trick of overlapping the square tubes where they join to make construction easier. My entire workshop is equipped with them now. Many thanks!
I remember an article that said when Alex Tribek from retired for a while he bought all the hardware material from a hardware store that was going out of business. He was household repair fanatic that got tired of having to stop in the middle of a project and go to the store
One of my favorite Adam quotes from myth busters is "would that be filed under "d" for depleted or "u" for uranium?"
I feel the redundancy would be built in and filed under both
My dad was in home construction, later owning his own remodeling business. Over the years he kept extra things from job sites, like nails and screws of all types, tools he bought (mainly was able to buy new tools for himself with the budget from job sites), and even collect items that could be reused. He used storage bins and catalogued every single box, he must of had upwards of 100.
Hey Adam, several years ago you & Jamie did a Q&A at Penn State / Behrend College in Erie PA. Some guy asked how much time you spend arguing with producers about budget for a build. (That guy also literally bumped into you in the hall afterwards - still sorry about that. I had turned the wrong way, realized it, turned around, and bam, shoulder-checked a Mythbyster.) Anyway, your answer was that you & Jamie were long accustomed to having no time and no budget at all, so whether you were given $500 and one day or $5,000 and one week, there was no argument, you just got it done. This video gives a beautiful backstory to how & why you were accustomed to that. Thank you.
In my own way, I've been having storage issues and not knowing how to figure it out and this has been kind of the equivalent of you guys looking at the wall and finding ideas that are better than the original, much thanks and much love. Much much love.
That wall was always a favorite of mine. Also was cool to see how Grant took the idea and utilized it in his own shop for the stuff he built
One of my favorite things about that wall was actually during the Plywood Builder myth. Adam had just dropped a doll with a piece of wood, and somewhere along the calculations he figured the doll would have to be like, 72 pounds to be scaled up. So Adam in his infinite comedy says "Hey Jamie, this thing has to be 72 pounds. Do you have any depleted Uranium?" And so he points to the wall and says "Would that be under 'U' or 'D'?"
And honestly, I wouldnt have been surprised if Jamie did in fact have some depleted radioactive elements just to make things heavier.
I always loved that wall, it truly is iconic :)
My friends: "I'm trying to minimize my lifestyle... I don't want to keep anything that I'm not using all the time."
Me: "Ha. Hahaha, you must not make things."
Our friends like that really suffered in lockdown =')
Most people don't make random things, no. If they do make things it's usually pretty specific. Paintings, woodworking, etc.
2:21 Dude, have you not seen that MythBusters episode about germs? (;
Alone in his own shop? Less relevant.
@@Mathadar He's not alone. He's even talking to others in this video.
@@Mathadar hes not alone most of the time
Adam: coughs
Thats illegal
Fan of the show Mythbusters, my favorite part of the show was watching how you guys would approach the science and engineering to test the myth. I'm a DIY person so anything that involves building things, science, tech and engineering catches my attention. Some of the field improvising you guys did was pretty slick.
I'm sure dozens if not hundreds of people have said this over the years, but seeing the amount of respect you have for Jamie and his skills as a maker/problem solver, even if you may not particularly like him, is very refreshing.
Im glad that even though they didnt see eye to eye there is a mutual respect. You dont see that very often now a days
My room is 12 feet wide and I could NEVER image using that width as a workshop space. That takes serious skill and creativity wow
I would absolutely watch a show that followed a commercial effects shop. Especially if it was Jamie or Adam.
Unfortunately any producer who got hold of that idea would immediately ruin it with imaginary deadlines, fake equipment failures, pretend interpersonal conflict and a couple of fake moonshiners.
this would kind of ruin the illusion of any effects they're getting paid to make though. especially if they were to release around the same time. and that would really hurt business
I have begun doing the same thing at my woodshop. I buy the dollar totes (the ones that could hold approximately 2 cartons of 18 eggs) and label them with post-its that are covered in packing tape. The post-its allow for a colorful background on the clear plastic, and the tape allows me to erase the sharpie marks in the future using a little alcohol. All my weird little side projects, odd materials, and small tool kits go in those totes on a rack above my tools. I think about M5 every time I take something down.
I love the episode where Adam asked Jamie if he had depleted uranium somewhere in those bins.. lol
Is that filed under 'D' or 'U?'
@@14stockfan Probably "U" for "Uranium, Depleted." Or else E for "Element Sample, Uranium, Depleted."
I would not actually have been very surprised if he did have a sample of depleted Uranium. Like, a _little_ surprised, but not _very_ surprised. Like "Oh, huh, we actually have it. Nice." Rather than "you have a _what_ in the shop?!"
I honestly never knew the shop was that narrow, but I guess that is TV and how it makes spaces look bigger
That was a frigging beautiful explanation, Adam! Not just the inventory of knowing what you have, but the potential inspiration behind having a subset of McMaster-Carr's catalog at your fingertips. Rubbermaid isn't going out of business as long as shops need to access stuff.
That wall was, one between many other, so cool! The organization, imagining the process of laveling, the place they achieve in time, if some boxes changes places at some point or they lived forever in that spot. It's like having a very exposed brain.
I remember from an episode of Mythbusters involving the wall of boxes, you had messed up some calculation and thought you needed depleted uranium to make something weigh correctly and looked at Jamie and jokingly asked "so would that be under 'D' or 'U?'"
Thanks Adam for this insight. I am going to think about how I can implement it for my projects.
Being able to find every necessary thing quickly and having direct inspiration for ways to do a project seem like awesome perks!
I don't even know where I would start with that water project, let alone have it done within a day.. remarkable
I always liked the tray labelled 'it goes here if you don't know where it goes' ... ♥
The shelf of boxes was always one of my favorite parts of the show, id try and look what the labels are and guess what could be in the rest
As someone who works in the commercial industry in Europe, I can confirm it's true about the tight schedules. It's kinda crazy...
When I built my shop in my basement, there were already a line a shelves along a wall. Without thinking any different of it, I purchased a bunch of plastic tubs and did the same thing. It just makes sense to have everything organized like that and I totally credit M5. I didn't even think "Mythbusters do it, so I should too!" After watching the show, it was just such a painfully obvious thing to do if I wanted a decent shop.
I grew up as a Kid, in the Sixties.. father master craftsman with wood and steel..
We had an old Wardrobe in the Garage..
Had Hundred Drawers.. with..
Nails, Screws, washers, sandpaper, drill bits, all in their own allotted area, by Size etc..
Complete encyclopaedia, of items..
My Father Designed and built our family home, all the Furniture, Home Made the Stereo Sound System..
And in the Garage created 4 Boats, a Canadian Canoe.. and a Bucket load of toys..
Yes, ethos of the old barn meets the filing system. You don't throw it out. You organize it.
@@mjbe mate. It was so much fun. As kid. Grab crap and build something..
@@mjbe yep. Garage full of stuff we could make things out off..
That's so cool, I remember watching myth busters as a kid long ago and seeing the magnificent clear bins full of things. That inspired me to create my own (tiny) version in my woodshop as I never like to throw away scrap material. Thanks Jamie!
It also gives a clear place for when you have to put something back.
0:44 Oh that was a smooth transition!
Something has changed about that milling machine! It's either a new one or we're getting an episode on cleaning/painting milling machines
Was it green before?
You're right! It's no longer a Bridgeport. It appears to be a brand new Sharp-Industries LMV-49. Good eye. It's definitely new within the last month or so.
Jamie's wall 'o stuff was actually the inspration behind my craft room's wall 'o plastic bins and for much the same reason. When you want to craft something, you need to be able to find the stuff to do so quickly, being it beads, acryllic paints, or fake fur. Sorting things out by what they are makes that much easier. Thanks for the history lesson, though! I *loved* mythbusters and have watched the entire series (well all of it that was availible on DVD, anyway) multiple times. Such a great series! :)
It sounds fun to have a workflow like that just for the satisfaction of being able to make full use of such an elaborate setup.
That wall of bins was one of the most iconic set dressings in all of television, and it's so cool to know they had a purpose.
I have always wanted to know more about the weird food concoction Jamie had in the windows down/AC on myth that looked like dog vomit but he insisted was “quite pleasant.”
I feel the pain of not having time to run to a hardware store. I live in a small town where only recently (2015/16) do we have a car parts store OR hardware store open past 5 o'clock. Your next option was about 20-30 minutes away. It behooved you to have stuff on hand.
4:09 Hmm... I'm starting to pick up a pattern in here...
Love the way Adam gets a delivery in nearly every video.
7:15 "Way-early Oughts." So early, it was pre-Oughts. We call that the Nineties.
Yeah! Inventory and organization the most exciting and satisfying things
I never realized how likable Adam Savage is. Loved myth busters but didn't really like him but now he seems so much better 🙂
I can't adequately express how much I love this. Let me just say that I have my own wall of labeled bins made in honor of this.
Adam, thank you so much for answering all of these questions so long winded. I absolutely love delving into the lore of mythbusters and pre-mythbusters
So basically the Wall is your visual "McMaster-Carr Catalog" of in-house stuff. I totally agree!
I loved this answer. It helped explain the creative process behind the show and made me even more jealous of that opportunity. Also, great book recommendation!
I was blown away by that "wall of stuff" in the earliest days of Mythbusters. I'm an Industrial Design Consultant and a tinkerer so I stole that idea from the show many years ago. I purchased a ton of self-adhesive vinyl pouches in index and business card size, and dozens and dozens of large plastic bins and shoe box bins and have accumulated my own wall of stuff over the years that I go back to all the time.
I loved listening to the answer here. When I heard the question I understood the answer do come on a deep level. To look and find anything you need, and some things you didn't yet realize you needed
As an artist I have pretty similar “wall of crap”-system going on in my studio. I might have tools getting lost, but my materials are always where they should be.
As a huge fan of Mythbusters when I am little, now I work as a freelance electrons design and PCB design engineer , I have build a shelf full of boxes in my workshop, each box will be a type of parts, like SMD bottom, different types of voltage regulator chip etc. and also different project's electrons parts will be in a box for me to easy access if similar project finds me. It never hit me why I will use this system until watching this video, seems when I start watching Mythbusters on TV start from season 3 I think, Jamie’s wall of storage already carved into my mind lol
Hey Adam, and how did Jamie make sure that the boxes labeled with the stuff had the items in stock? Did the labeling system dealt with this too? Did it show also the number or volume of items stored? Cheers! :)
I'll say this about Adam. He doesn't shy away in pointing out that he and Jamie weren't friends However, when Adam ever talks about Jamie...he always talks about him with high praise.
I dont believe that adam and Jamie didnt like each other. All through all the seasons they had so many laughs together when they created something funny and i remember jamie actually praising adam when adam made some great stuff. I see them as ying and yang and that sometimes makes for great television or entertainment.people forget that they were together for 14 years so you can't avoid having heated discussions once in a while no one can
I loved when Jamie went into the smaller wooden drawers and pulled out stuff he had saved from old stuff he's taken apart for reuse. "Well, I know I have (oddball thing) in (1000 sizes) that will work for this build."
Thank you.. it’s hard to explain this to people - especially as a person who humbly attempts creative design!
Even more proof that you do not have to be "friends" with a person to have and enormous amount of respect, look up to, and value them.
ADAM: Just get your finger out, and reboot Mythbusters. We love you, it, and them.
Also, having an item in the same place, everytime, is a big thing. I have things in my shop, in the same place, even if it's in a weird spot. I know where it's at, everytime. It makes it efficient.
Thank you for that awesome explination! As I'm setting up my own shop in my first apartment, I'm always listening for good shop practice. And hearing your note about how inspiring it can be to browse inventory has now inspired me to pursue that kind of accessibility in my own storage.
Seeing those racks in M5 inspired me to have a mini version of this storage system in my "shop", except my boxes are the small 6 qt Sterilite plastic shoe boxes 36 of them. Adam is 100% correct, having stuff you might possibly use on hand is a huge relief. Also ture is that when I'm looking up and down and side to side for what I need, ideas for other projects or problem solving solutions pop in my brain.
I've finally got the answer about the Naked Lunch creature from some early episodes! I saw that creature and recognized it but wondered why it was in the background of the show.
Really love stories like this
i wish i had the patience to organize my things like that
I whish I had the time!
You do. Start small, work from there. The apocryphal story is thus:
Why does France have so many tree-lined streets?
One sunny afternoon, Napoleon saw his men marching under the sun, sweating through a pass-in-review. He turned to his adjutant and said "I wish for my men to march in the shade. Go plant some trees along the roads." The adjutant replied, objecting "But it will take decades for seedlings to become shade trees!"
Napoleon looked at his adjutant nodded once and observed; "Then there is no time to lose. Begin planting immediately."
You ever cleaned up a huge mess? Don't look at the totality of the task; pick a small part of the problem, solve it, then repeat until the whole thing is done and dealt with.
So, get a box, dump all of one type of widget into it, then move on to another box for every other type of widget. Just do it serially (all metric fasteners into the Metric fasteners box, Screws into the screw box. Nails into the nails box...) because being able to say "I've separated out al of the metric fasteners, the only ones left are SAE bolts. Hey, I sorted two things at once!" gives you a sense of progress and lets you track it.
@@bobthecannibal1 Thank you exactly what I needed to hear in my life right now, trying to organize my home after years of collecting stuff, trying to decide what to keep what to sell etc. Overwhelmed by a lack of space and time to go through it all. I will remember this advice and work on one area at a time untill I run out of stuff yo organize and move to the next area and repeat. A problem that took me years to create will not get solved quickly, time to get on it right away......🤔😉😁👍
It's all about the art of the PRE-SORT. I can sort and organize anything, from huge messes with no functional meaning to easy office supplies with clear functional meaning and place. Once you master the ability to pre-sort organizing becomes second nature. Speed comes with experience in the world using and or collecting, knowing what it is and how it's used is when you are a master organizer.
@@bobthecannibal1 always keep the bigger picture in mind, though. Nothing is worse than finishing a major organizational project then turning around and discovering you made 6 tidy little messes to replace one large one because you did the first part one way then the second part another way and so on.
Lmao, his sneeze @2:22 sounds like a compressor drill thing for tires.