When good organization goes bad

I try to be a pretty organized person. I like containers and bins, which I feel is a very canadian word, and all manner of organizers and sorters. But sometimes, good organization goes bad. When this happens, one has little choice but to dump everything out and start all over. I had this happen to me over the weekend. I got out some bins that I had miscellaneous fabric and other stuff in, and realized that though it looked fairly organized on top, lurking beneath the surface it was a jumbled mess and I honestly didn't really remember what was down there. On the bottom. Where you can't easily see. I also noticed that a similar thing had happened to most of my other craft stuff too. That made me sad, and I started thinking that organization goes bad for 1 of 2 reasons. 1. You dig through the stuff, get things out, and then don't put them back where you found them, or 2. Your method changes, or you begin to do different projects with those items that renders the previous form of organization useless. I devised an upgraded version of my organizational stuff that was fashioned from a curious assortment of things being grouped together that may or may not actually go together. Plastic mini milk crates being strapped together with zip ties and hung on the wall vaguely resemble something you might see in a college dorm. That situation is made worse by the fact that there are toddler shoe boxes (I did at least cover the weird looking one with contact paper) on the "shelves" next to a cookie tin & an empty wipes container. It's not pretty, but it's functional and suits my needs for now. That might be a completely different example of when good organization goes bad, I'm not sure. I do know that displaying such wacky things is most certainly a design faux pas, but sometimes you do the best you can with what you've got. :)