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".
