Just saw a cute banner or TW sketch trying to get me to change my closet. Obviously drawn by or for someone who does not clutter, is tidy, put away her first toy before she could sit up.
It shows a lovely rolling shelf set like a hotel porter uses - that part could be useful if you have a retired film star's Rancho de Closet, perhaps accessed by an elevator.
But on those shelves is trouble for us, the genetically non-tidy. And those of us who would simply rather read Robert Crais and deal with the closet later.
Just getting the clothes back in the closet, nicely aired out, is a victory for some of us. Putting the crackers and purple potatoes on the proper shelf after getting them into the pantry is an olympic victory. If the shelf has a drawer, it's getting to be a chore.
Along comes a jolly closet fluffer who puts everything in darling boxes. Well, except the purple potatoes. With lids. A pile-on-the center island future in the making. And you have to put everything down somewhere if there IS no center island, so you can get the d....lids off the cute boxes and put stuff in.
If the closet fluffer needs photos for her website, she will have a graduated stack of boxes for your things, and will tie the stack with a ribbon. This will cut down on clutter because you will never open the stack. Ever. Unless you need those clothes to go to a wedding. Eventually some of us may replace the stuff we've forgotten in the cute box stack.
When the fluffer is checking her makeup, take your stuff out of the stack of boxes and PUT ALL Boxes with Lids back in her car. If a box has a hinged lid you can just flip up, it may work for you. Or not.
While she is alphabetizing your closet, get on your cell and call a guy who will build you some shelves, many of them with tray drawers. Tray what?
A tray drawer is just a tray on slides. It's not a deep drawer. You can put some sweaters in without even opening it. Not thirty in one tray, perhaps.
Toss the catalog with the picture of darling baskets instead of drawers for towels, etc. You will pull out the cute basket drawer to see what's in the bottom, and it will remain on the bathroom floor until I'm (I mean until you're) too embarrassed to leave it there longer. The only basket my bathroom really needs is one to keep the rotten hair dryer from sliding off on the floor and breaking.
Think of all this as the one-move rule. If it has a door, it definitely does not need drawers inside. One thing to do is always enough for us.
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