Today was a holiday for the kids and hubby. I was planning (remember that word "planning") to unearth my craft room after the flurry of kit making. So there I was all content having a glass of ice tea and making my plan of attack when I heard this... "Mom there's ants in Dusty dog food again". And that was it for the "plan"... hubby cleaned up the dog food, called the pest control, and got the downstairs under control. I tried to escape upstairs with my ice tea but guess what more ants on my desk and in its neighbor the linen closet. GGGGrrrrrrrrr....
Well... the linen closet needed cleaning so out came everything!
Note this is what I want my linen closet to look like... This is Martha Stewart, not me. I don't have perfectly color coordinated linens and come on I have two kids so nothing will ever be folded this nicely for more than a millisecond.
But I did fill two more huge lawn bags of "stuff" for give away. Really we only are a family of four so I don't think we need that many linens.
I kept 8 good bath towels, 4 car wash towels, 12 hand towels (we go through these like crazy) 12 wash cloths, 1 set of flannel sheets for the girls and some misc. stuff for holidays. Its a pretty barren linen closet. Just like I like it... 1 more thing simplified. Yeah! Laundry room... you've seen what happened here today and you're next!
Now it's 7:46pm and I have come to the conclusion that the craft room did not and is not going to get clean. Unless some fairy shows up in the middle of the night. And in addition to that I have wrote my most boring blog post ever... sorry. Hope you get done what you plan to today or at least you have some fun not doing what you planned.
It was a holiday for us too, so work was closed, but Gary's aunt died this past weekend, so we attended her funeral on Veteran's Day. As far as linen closet goes, this picture is a total fantasy- mine looks like a landmine hit it, and we don't even have kids- so what's my excuse. I guess I am a packrat, so it's only when I open the closet door, and things fall on me, that I get garbage sacks to fill up for a "goodwill" dropoff.
Posted by: cathy somdahl | November 14, 2009 at 06:18 PM
Not boring at all! You have inspired me to purge my linen closet too...although I know I will never have "Martha Stewart" perfection...one can dream!
Posted by: Debra | November 13, 2009 at 03:02 PM
you are NOT boring, and my linen closet doesn't look like this either. so there. smooch!!
Posted by: karlalala | November 12, 2009 at 07:05 PM
You should have said that was my linen closet!!! I wish!
Posted by: steph | November 12, 2009 at 05:17 AM