Hmmm, Maybe you are the type whose closets are always neatly arranged. Nothing ever out of place. Never. ever.
Maybe you are one of the lucky ones who has many decent size closets, an attic, a basement.. everything always stowed away right where it belongs.
And when it comes time to find it you walk right where it is located....pull it right out.. And not even strain a muscle.
Yay for you if you are one of those.
Me, on the other hand, am not.
There is no attic, no basement, no spare rooms in our house....... So the closet does it all. Right now Carter's closet holds...
games
blankets
sheets
wrapping paper
christmas decor
curtis' bass guitar amp
my sewing machine
and whatever else i can squeeze in there.
I only know all this because i just cleaned it out the other day.
Not only is my space lacking.. I am also lacking(in the organized realm of things). :)
The stuff in my closets is always shifting, moving.. ever changing.Stuff falling way down, down in the cracks where i can't find them.
Take for instance this scenario.
We have overnight guests over. Everything is all in place.. i just got to make the bed yet. (i had a busy day people!!) I say let me just go to the closet and pull out the sheets real quick and make your bed so you can rest your weary, tired selves. I say this calmly, but underneath I'm freaking out.. Thinking things like "Lord, please let those sheets be somewhere in that closet!!" I dig, YAY! The fitted sheet is right there in plain sight.... several more feet down i find the top sheet.. Whew.. deeper and deeper i dig.. pillow case number one is found... Finally, after nearly standing on my head.. WAY back in the corner i come across the second pillow case. I emerge from the closet 10 minutes later... looking like I've been through it all .. And the closet looks like its been through even worse....
There has got to be a better way for all of this!
One month ago or so my older sister was bursting with excitement when she was telling me about how she had read about a way to keep sheet sets together. Boy, was i equally as excited!!! She said something to this effect "I just CAN'T wait to get home and do that with all my sheet sets!!!!" Believe me people, time changes things. Ten years ago we would not have been discussing this. Well, maybe her... but i would have got bored with it quickly!!
So anyhow.. I waited about a month.. When one day i got in the mood to organize.. This mood does not come often and when it does show up i have to work fast before it leaves!!
So, yes i went ahead and gathered up my little sheet set from the depths of the closet....
I folded it and stuffed all of it in the one pillow case that it goes with......
Then i stacked it there a top the blankets...
There, there little sheet set.. You may be sitting on top a pile of horribly folded blankets, but you shall never get lost from your set again....(Hey now!- there is more then one reason i never tried applying for a job at a department store... I'm not a good folder!)
Maybe you are one of the lucky ones who has many decent size closets, an attic, a basement.. everything always stowed away right where it belongs.
And when it comes time to find it you walk right where it is located....pull it right out.. And not even strain a muscle.
Yay for you if you are one of those.
Me, on the other hand, am not.
There is no attic, no basement, no spare rooms in our house....... So the closet does it all. Right now Carter's closet holds...
games
blankets
sheets
wrapping paper
christmas decor
curtis' bass guitar amp
my sewing machine
and whatever else i can squeeze in there.
I only know all this because i just cleaned it out the other day.
Not only is my space lacking.. I am also lacking(in the organized realm of things). :)
The stuff in my closets is always shifting, moving.. ever changing.Stuff falling way down, down in the cracks where i can't find them.
Take for instance this scenario.
We have overnight guests over. Everything is all in place.. i just got to make the bed yet. (i had a busy day people!!) I say let me just go to the closet and pull out the sheets real quick and make your bed so you can rest your weary, tired selves. I say this calmly, but underneath I'm freaking out.. Thinking things like "Lord, please let those sheets be somewhere in that closet!!" I dig, YAY! The fitted sheet is right there in plain sight.... several more feet down i find the top sheet.. Whew.. deeper and deeper i dig.. pillow case number one is found... Finally, after nearly standing on my head.. WAY back in the corner i come across the second pillow case. I emerge from the closet 10 minutes later... looking like I've been through it all .. And the closet looks like its been through even worse....
There has got to be a better way for all of this!
One month ago or so my older sister was bursting with excitement when she was telling me about how she had read about a way to keep sheet sets together. Boy, was i equally as excited!!! She said something to this effect "I just CAN'T wait to get home and do that with all my sheet sets!!!!" Believe me people, time changes things. Ten years ago we would not have been discussing this. Well, maybe her... but i would have got bored with it quickly!!
So anyhow.. I waited about a month.. When one day i got in the mood to organize.. This mood does not come often and when it does show up i have to work fast before it leaves!!
So, yes i went ahead and gathered up my little sheet set from the depths of the closet....
I folded it and stuffed all of it in the one pillow case that it goes with......
Then i stacked it there a top the blankets...
There, there little sheet set.. You may be sitting on top a pile of horribly folded blankets, but you shall never get lost from your set again....(Hey now!- there is more then one reason i never tried applying for a job at a department store... I'm not a good folder!)
LOL... I've got the same thing happening here. My blanket and sheet pile is in my open closet and you're right... the second pillow case is always almost a hopeless case to find!! Thanks for the chuckle and "uh-huh" moment. :D
ReplyDeleteI really enjoy your blog Alyssa!
ReplyDeleteI don't lack being organized, but I do lack the space to be MORE organized! The joys of a small house! (: I like the pillow case idea, I would try it except my closets are too full for my sheets, so they are stuffed into dresser drawers! (:
LOVE it :) I have been able to get more organized since we've moved to a bigger house w/ yes, closets in every room and an even bigger YAY...a...wait for it...BASEMENT!!!!! yes, the basement gets wet so I can't leave a lot of stuff on the floor, and it does lack a lot of shelving, but, still...a BASEMENT!!!! I was in the same situation as you in our last place...2 closets in the whole place and NO storage...AT ALL. It's amazing how quickly you realize you don't need what you thought you needed :D
ReplyDeleteGreat idea for the sheets, btw...will def. use that!!