With a friend flying in from Australia next week, we're attempting to get things in a slightly more functional state (well, perhaps "neat" and "organized" would be better words--we are functional amidst the chaos). With that in mind, I turned my attentions to the mud-room/hall closet yesterday afternoon.
I hauled everything out--shoes, boots, multiple bags of plastic sacks, paper sacks, gloves, and some tools and hardware. I ended up taking all the plastic sacks down to the basement. Savannah and I organized the gloves and boots and stuck them back in neatly on the south side of the closet. I removed the laundry (or most of it; I left the Granddaddy stuff) from the bathroom and put it in the north end of the closet. We have tried this before and it didn't last, but we decided to try it again because the laundry overload mess spilling out from between the washer and drier is both unsightly and clastrophobic.
I rearragned the coats/jackets so that most of them (and definitely all the long ones) are more on the south side of the closet. That will keep them out of the laundry as it mounds up. (Just to explain, with Granddaddy, we have to do at least two loads of laundry a day--but because of the amount of urine he gets on his sheets, blankets, chucks, and clothes [poor guy can't hold it very well], we rinse everything before we wash it so it takes the time of doing twice as many regular loads. We don't necessarily have the time {or soft water} to do our own stuff, so the piles grow.)
I'm not exactly sure where I'm going to focus my endeavors today...I'm kind of sleepy. Maybe I can get Mama to order me around. ;P I am functional and capable of working, just not initiating an organizational idea.
I hauled everything out--shoes, boots, multiple bags of plastic sacks, paper sacks, gloves, and some tools and hardware. I ended up taking all the plastic sacks down to the basement. Savannah and I organized the gloves and boots and stuck them back in neatly on the south side of the closet. I removed the laundry (or most of it; I left the Granddaddy stuff) from the bathroom and put it in the north end of the closet. We have tried this before and it didn't last, but we decided to try it again because the laundry overload mess spilling out from between the washer and drier is both unsightly and clastrophobic.
I rearragned the coats/jackets so that most of them (and definitely all the long ones) are more on the south side of the closet. That will keep them out of the laundry as it mounds up. (Just to explain, with Granddaddy, we have to do at least two loads of laundry a day--but because of the amount of urine he gets on his sheets, blankets, chucks, and clothes [poor guy can't hold it very well], we rinse everything before we wash it so it takes the time of doing twice as many regular loads. We don't necessarily have the time {or soft water} to do our own stuff, so the piles grow.)
I'm not exactly sure where I'm going to focus my endeavors today...I'm kind of sleepy. Maybe I can get Mama to order me around. ;P I am functional and capable of working, just not initiating an organizational idea.
Crank this up and see if it doesn't give you some sort of lift. :) I love it....
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