I have a few questions: Where do you keep your socks? How about your t-shirts or pajamas?
I'm serious. I want everyone to answer these questions for me. These are the first of a series of questions I plan on asking in order to collect data imperative to my sanity. I want to know how everyone else solves the mundane issues of keeping house.
You think it's a joke. It's not. I will be fascinated by your answers.
As I was moving laundry today (notice the constant theme) I started thinking about the millions of socks I have to deal with (mainly Jared's). I am not kidding when I say that Jared has literally three FULL drawers of socks. I have one, but choose to wear only about 4 or 5 pairs on a regular basis. The thought occurred to me, how many is too many? What is "normal"?
Then I started to fold t-shirts. Not just Jared's, but mine and John's as well. How many t-shirts does one really need? Jared and I are not regular t-shirt wearing people. Jared will put one on as a base layer, and I wear one to clean, or lounge around in. We have two drawers stuffed with various t-shirts. How many do you have?
AND THEN I started folding my pajamas and thought to myself, "Where do these go?" My pj's don't have a designated place and that is a big problem. As I finished stuffing Jared's lounge wear into a misc. drawer I realized that his jammies don't have a designated spot either. This may be the whole crux of the problem. Do pj's need a specific drawer? Maybe some socks need to give way for items of equal importance.
Bear in mind that my closet is from 1978, which means it has accordion doors and is not in the least anything that resembles "walk-in". I will be tackling the closet next, but for now, I need to find a home for everything folded.
So either comment with your answers or let me know somehow. Who knows, I might eventually publish a handbook called, "The Idiot's Housekeeping Companion: Revised and Updated for 2010".
I'm serious. I want everyone to answer these questions for me. These are the first of a series of questions I plan on asking in order to collect data imperative to my sanity. I want to know how everyone else solves the mundane issues of keeping house.
You think it's a joke. It's not. I will be fascinated by your answers.
As I was moving laundry today (notice the constant theme) I started thinking about the millions of socks I have to deal with (mainly Jared's). I am not kidding when I say that Jared has literally three FULL drawers of socks. I have one, but choose to wear only about 4 or 5 pairs on a regular basis. The thought occurred to me, how many is too many? What is "normal"?
Then I started to fold t-shirts. Not just Jared's, but mine and John's as well. How many t-shirts does one really need? Jared and I are not regular t-shirt wearing people. Jared will put one on as a base layer, and I wear one to clean, or lounge around in. We have two drawers stuffed with various t-shirts. How many do you have?
AND THEN I started folding my pajamas and thought to myself, "Where do these go?" My pj's don't have a designated place and that is a big problem. As I finished stuffing Jared's lounge wear into a misc. drawer I realized that his jammies don't have a designated spot either. This may be the whole crux of the problem. Do pj's need a specific drawer? Maybe some socks need to give way for items of equal importance.
Bear in mind that my closet is from 1978, which means it has accordion doors and is not in the least anything that resembles "walk-in". I will be tackling the closet next, but for now, I need to find a home for everything folded.
So either comment with your answers or let me know somehow. Who knows, I might eventually publish a handbook called, "The Idiot's Housekeeping Companion: Revised and Updated for 2010".
8 comments:
AH-HA! So .. you wanna know where I keep my socks? Doesn't everyone have just a drawer specifically for socks? I do and my kids all do. I keep the unmatched socks on top so when they find their way from their hiding places I know where the match is.
I think everyone has like a million tshirts that they don't really wear. Once a year I clean those out. If I haven't worn it for that year .. it goes. But again, my plain tshirts have their own drawer. Same with my kids. Pajamas? You were pajamas? So, okay don't really wear those so don't have a drawer for them!!! My kids keep them with their undies.
That answer wasn't really all that exciting huh?
Oh oh oh and same with socks .. I clean those out once a year too.
I think you just need another dresser!
Good luck my friend. I want to be the firt to read your book...
I can't spell.. WEAR jammies .. not WERE jammies...
and FIRST to read your book, not FIRT. guess I should have proofed before I hit publish. now i got your hopes up that you had like three comments from three DIFFERENT people. Sorry!!
My husband has the same sock problem as your husband. For some reason he feels the need to buy a new package of socks on a monthly basis. Anyway, we have an antique dresser that has 2 very large drawers, and then 3 very small ones on top. Cliff has one big drawer, and I have the other. They are about 4 t-shirt stacks wide (did that make sense?). All of his socks, tshirts, and underthings go in this drawer. they do not all fit. I can only wash half of his things at a time, in order to close this drawer. His pj bottoms/workout pants are stacked in a pile on a shelf in the closet. My drawer has all my t-shirts, pj bottoms/workout pants, and underthings in it. The top 3 drawers house my socks, and more underthings. All unmatched socks go in a small basket in my closet. Someday when we get a new bedroom set, we will have a much bigger dresser to make things easier. Someday. Well, I hope you were fascinated!
i miss you :)
baskets. lots of cute baskets. not yucky plastic ones, but ones made of wood or wicker. they have a way of giving stuff like socks and t-shirts and toys a nice home.
Nathan has a sock basket and I usually just wear his. I toss the few pair I have in there too. I know so getto.
I have so many pears of PJ's they also have there own basket in the closet too.
Humm t-shirts. I just wear Nathans. But there in a big basket.
A few years ago we got rid of our dresser and planed on getting a new one. We never did. So everything is pretty much hung or has it's own basket.
Everyone has a sock drawer in the house. The kids combine their socks and undies in one drawer. I have a drawer for sox with a space in the upper left designated for "singles" so I just have to go in one spot to match the single from the dryer to the one in the drawer and then toss them in. One can dream that there would eventually be a match for them all! Frank is the same, but he has a loooooong drawer in the armoire that covers all his misc. socks, belts, unmentionables, and white undershirts -- its really that big!
Tshirts- now there I can tell you -- I am a T-shirt ho...I covet them. I collect them. I have separte spots for them. My upper closet shelf is for "painting Ts" -- and I'll admit I don't often have the patience to change into one before dirtying another if the project is exciting enough to me! :)
Then I have my work out Ts...and my closet Ts - those are the "hanging" ones that are Ts but can double as an okay hang out shirt in public...they get hangers.
Right -- I have a sickness...you caught me!
And I do have a PJ drawer, b/c I have an obsession with pjs. I love them. Both the kind I bring to girlfriend away weekends and the kind that only Frank needs to see! :) They take up the huge middle bottom drawer in my dresser...each type having their own side.
TMI? I thought so, too!
I have two drawers designated for socks. One is for white socks, the other for dress socks. If I ever got the motivation, I really could collapse it to one drawer. But I feel bad throwing socks in the garbage; I feel like I should be using them for things like washing the car or polishing the silver. But then I don't wash my car and have the Costco village-pack of microfiber cloths if I need a rag. So...they keep on taking up two drawers.
I have maybe 2 pairs of PJs. When they're not on my floor or on top of the dresser, they poach a corner of the dress sock drawer.
I hang all my t-shirts in my closet, and I've been much better about weeding out old ones (which isn't saying much, I guess) because with the closet I'm dealing with a finite space that's in my face. I still can't bring myself to get rid of certain t-shirts, though. Like the one that is so worn you can see through it...but I bought it for like $2 at the thrift store when I was 12!
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