Why Didn't I Think of That? (What's New?)

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* Many people--especially, we're sure, postal workers--regard the morass of catalogues filling America's mailboxes as an annoyance. Others welcome them into their homes with eager anticipation. We admit to falling somewhere in between, often bemoaning the trees that have been felled to supply the tons of paper necessary to churn out this material, but occasionally finding items that, while we'd never really thought about them, suddenly become irresistible. Even better than that, some turn out to make life easier and/or more pleasant.

Take, for instance, the Improvements catalogue. While browsing through a recent issue, we encountered a wooden organizer ($34.97) with vertical …