Cat’s last line makes me suspect that the comic is aimed at the ever-increasing trend of surveillance and compartmentalization in our society.

I could be wrong. If I’m right, I’m not sure that it quite comes off…

At work today I was going to organise the foreign film section by imprint. For some reason the idea got vetoed.

“Twenty tied with twine” is my phrase of the day.

I organise my CDs, books, and manga by the order of when I last played/read them. The ones on the bottom of the pile are the ones I don’t play/read very often.
On my computer, it’s organised in folders by artist, then album. It’s just the default setting. Plus, it makes them easier to find when I need the actual file.

I organize my friends on Facebook by the number of years it has been since I last spoke to them. Most of them are in the 20+ years group.

The “first pepper, then salt” —perfectly hilarious. That’ll make me laugh every time I use them, or reach for anything different. And the tax return panel- just great. Actually, they all add up to a mighty fine strip.
PS, I could never organize C&G strips by my favorite; there would be too many on top.

the tax return organizational pattern is freaking brilliant.

…ah, but what if you have no regrets?

I used to work at a book store where an employee famously re-organized the fiction section by colour on her last day.

Finally, a way to help those people who would always come in and say: “I can’t remember the name of this book, but it had, like, a pink cover.”

Ed: Relatedly, we occasionally have customers who re-order our genre-fiction series alphabetically, instead of by order of publication.

The last panel made me feel sad :(

whenever i set up bookshelves, i arrange my books by genre. i think i have a whole half-case dedicated to my old degree literature novels, which is just another way to show off.

I organize my toothbrushes by how often I use them for purposes other than the brushing of teeth.

@David Thomsen:

At home, I do actually order all my foreign DVDs by publisher. Fortunately, I have less than 1 bookshelf full, so I can see them all at once anyqway.

@jeff

Oh, then you are a liar, or have a very poor memory.

I put all of my books, records and DVDs together and organized them chronologically.

christ, what is wrong with you all? I leave all my discs in various stacks and put books on my shelf in whatever order they fit and I never lose anything.

@idkrash:

As we all know, Elephants never forget. That’s why they drink.

http://www.topatoco.com/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=TO&Product_Code=CG-ELEPHANTS&Category_Code=WON

The cat, he does not know when to use who or whom.

@pedant – while the incorrect use of ‘whom’ when ‘who’ is necessary is awful and worthy of comment, the reverse usage is quite acceptable and commenting on it just makes you a…well, you know. :)

Donald Judd, the minimalist sculptor, arranged his library by author’s country of birth and within country by year of birth, rather than publication.

i organize my change by the likelihood they will be thrown in the wishing well/laundromat.

Anyone with no regrets isn’t thinking hard enough.
Anyway. . .I arrange my books in alphabetical order by authors last name, but my CDs go in order of decreasing funky-ness.

I actually do sort my T-Shirt drawer kind of that way. The ones that look nicest on me go on the right, the ones I look okay in on the left, with a few ones I don’t really like shoved up in the back in case of laundry.

Once a friends came round to my house, got drunk and rearranged my bookd into iambic pentameter.

I wish I could replicate the effect.

me and my ocd love this one so much.

Anyone else notice that cat’s scheme in panel 5 is a completely useless criterion?

Not if you don’t want to be found.