Totally unorganized me!
We don't have a place for everything (can we say clutter-bug?) consequently things don't get 'put away'.
We tend to go and find or get what we need - bring it to another room (usually the living room in front of the TV) and when we are done - lay it down. The kitchen is another place for leaving things. Or we leave things on the tables and never put them away. Once a month we get an empty box and go around the tables and sweep everything into a box. The box sits on the floor in another room for a couple of months and if we don't go pawing through it, it gets moved to the garage. Every year we get into the garage and start going through all the boxes and amaze ourselves at when we find! "OH! I wondered where that was" should be tattoed on all of us. If we don't get all the boxes sorted they wait another year or three and by the time we go through them we have purchased whatever we needed that may be a duplicate of what is in the boxes so we through the stuff out or have a garage sale. I probably have a dozen nail clippers scattered throughout boxes in the garage. And lighters, and scissors, and barettes, and lighters, and batteries, and bits of paper with notes or phone numbers on them, and receipts, and jewelry, pens and pencils, and....
I came across a tote bag once with figbars and canned fruit that had to have been five years old. In a box, in the garage.
My whole family is that way. There have been many times we've had to call to find out what our monthly payment was on something -- like the electric bill, phone bill, credit card.... because we lost the original bill. Last year (or maybe it was the year before) I had to have a new W-2 form issued because I lost one.
I never considered myself as bad as my SIL though - she never put the dishes back in the same cupboard twice!
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