Have you ever taken one of those quizzes to find out what type of personality you are or in which state you should live or who your soul mate is? Well, today I’ll have you take a quiz on how organized you truly are. In the process of finding out how organized you are, you will also learn some very funny things about me (Wiebke).
Hi Y’All –
Glad to see you. Come on in, grab a cup and sit a spell and find out what happened in the Papenfus household on the first day of school this year and see how you pass or fail the Organization Back To School quiz.
One of the reasons I decided to take on writing for the blog about our episode on “How to Organize School Supplies in a Handy Homework Caddy”, is because I totally failed the OFBTS Test this past week! And if you don’t know what the OFBTS Test is, you have already lost one point….
Denine and I always look at the calendar ahead and then make a decision on what we should film, based on holidays or other milestone marker moments. So when we decided to film this THHB episode, “How to Organize School Supplies in a Handy Homework Caddy”, we had all the mothers and fathers and kids in mind who would want to be able to complete homework in a stress-free environment.
But first you will have to get past the quiz, to find out if you should attempt to get organized or not.
So here is the quiz:
Organization For Back To School Test
1. The OFBTS in the OFBTS Test stands for:
a. Organization For Back To School Test
b. Obsessive Following Better Trade Skills Test
c. Olaf Fries Blended Tomatoes Slowly Test
d. Orientation For Bulky Time Sensation Test
2. You usually have all your kid(s) supplies for the next school year bought:
a. Before school is out for summer break.
b. In the middle of summer break.
c. Why buy their own if they can borrow from their classmates?
d. After your kid(s) has been back to school for a couple of days.
3. You always have the school’s calendar written into your calendar or entered onto your digital device:
a. For two years in advance.
b. In the week before school starts.
c. What? The school has a calendar?
d. Don’t know that your kid’s school started, until your friend posts a picture of her kid’s first day of school on Facebook.
4. When your kid has orientation at his school you show up with:
a. Your calendar, your husband’s calendar, your digital device, your kid’s digital device, a variety of pens to color code your kid’s classes on your family’s organizational calendar.
b. Your purse with lipstick, your wallet, and a smartphone.
c. Why go to orientation when you could go to Starbucks?
d. Your husband, your sister-in-law visiting from South Africa and your purse filled with receipts from your vacation.
5. The dress code for hair at your kid’s school requires short back and sides haircut for boys. Your reaction:
a. You make sure that your son follows this dress code all the time, even during summer break.
b. You allow your son to have crazy hair during summer break, but make sure it is up to par at least a week before school starts back up.
c. Huh? When did that rule come out?
d. You make a once-in-a-lifetime decision to let your son grow out his lovely locks, and realize that he has to go to school with long out-of-control hair on his first day back to school, after you realize it actually is his first day of school because a friend posted a picture of her kid’s first school day on Facebook.
6. You realize that it’s your son’s first day back at school, only after seeing a friend post a lovely picture of her kids on Facebook. It is 7:50 am, your son’s school starts at 8:15am (and you live 40 minutes away from the school). You realize your son isn’t even awake yet because you, your husband, your sister-in-law and your son were up until 12.30am playing “Sequence” and taking a personality quiz. You also realize that your son has no supplies ready, very long unruly hair and his school clothes need to be ironed. What you do is:
a. Call the school’s attendance line and tell them he’ll be tardy.
b. Start running around like a chicken with its head cut off and throw random school supplies in your son’s backpack, all while making lunch, ironing his clothes and waking him up.
c. Why should he attend school today if you actually planned to go blueberry picking with him and your South African sister-in-law?
d. Tell your son to “zip his lips” while he is eating breakfast and trying to converse with your South African sister-in-law, who is sitting drinking coffee and looking totally confused at all the commotion around her.
Okay, I guess by now you’ve seen a pattern! If you answered mostly “a”, you are too organized to have read this far. If your answers were mostly “b”, you are right on target. If most of your answers were a “c”, you need serious therapy, and if your answers were mostly “d”, your name should be Wiebke! All of the things described in the “d” parts of the quiz happened to our family the first day of the new school year. We are planning to get more organized in the future with our very own amazing Ruth Soukup planner as to NEVER have a repeat of this year’s chaotic first school day (psst..we are not paid for this plug it is just a very pretty and practical planner – see below).
By the way, after my husband and son left via their low-level-flying machine (my husband’s car), I sat and just laughed hysterically for an hour while drinking my very large cup of coffee!
We at The Hard Hat Belles hope that our quick organizing tips will make doing homework easier for you and your kids. Check out all these ideas you can use to make your very own homework caddy.
How To Make Your Very Own Homework Caddy or Station
The first rule is to use your imagination – then gather your supplies. It doesn’t matter if they are new or what you have around your home or office.
2. Think about your needs and those of your student. Several little or big baskets or containers can be made in to one using zip ties. For more information on zip ties check on our Amazingly Simple Zip Tie Hacks video here.
3. Assemble baskets and supplies together.
You are now prepared to conquer your homework struggle of finding supplies!
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Wiebke & Denine
