Your Dad loved getting gifts for people.  He had a very large list of people he would buy holiday gifts for, and it even became a point of contention with us because it was so long.  To have a list of nearly 50 people is excessive when you have a house and family to take care of, and also keeping up with such a gift list is also overwhelming.  But he would often try ways to pare down the list (to no avail) and then starting making gifts for friends and family.  One homemade gift that he made for many co-workers and friends was a CD of his favorite music.  He would do that often, and create his own personalized CD label for each CD.  And when it came to this gift list, it was not just an ordinary list.  The list overwhelmed me completely.  It would have the name of the person, the carefully chosen gift, is it purchased, is it wrapped, is it mailed/shipped/delivered.  I had never had a gift list that included “is it wrapped” on it!   But your Dad was very organized when it came to certain things.  The things that mattered to him.  Because in some other areas of his life, he was completely unorganized.  An example of this was our garage.  It was an absolute mess.  And his financial paperwork was also pretty chaotic too.  I let him manage our finances, and after he died, I found important papers thrown into brown paper bags. There were lots of brown bags to go through, and to this day, I still find things.  I tried to get through all the boxes of paperwork, but I eventually just gave up and moved it from house to house.  It really is kind of funny now that I think about it.  You get so busy with life that it is hard to keep up.  I think both your Dad and I used to be more organized pre-children.  And, admittedly, I am now just as disorganized as your Dad in many areas.  But I don’t have to tell you something you and some of my best friends already know.  All they have to do is look at my closet.  I liked to blame your Dad for “disorganized Lisa”.  He was never critical of this weakness of mine.  Just another reason why I loved him so much.