Today I came across several fun new ideas.
1. The gift Wrap Organizer.
It is a little awesome. I love how the paper hangs there waiting for gifts to be wrapped, and the scissors and tape are in stock below probably with matching bows, and a box of store bought cards with the right humor for every occasion!
Except if I remember to take my kid to the birthday party (I have forgotten 3 in the past year), I am normally scrambling to Walgreens on the way to the party to get whatever gift card comes in the 15.00 range. (invite all 3 triplets, and that amount goes up to 35-ish) If I am really long on time, or happen to be stopping at the grocery store, I might get crazy and go to learning express- and only because they do the wrapping for me... Plus I am cheap. The kids make the cards that are going to get tossed 30 seconds after the gift is opened. In this house scissors and tape tend to live wherever the matches to socks go, so I would just be frustrated and using the scissors that are in my nail kit. Whatever kid friendly stickers we have laying around in the craft cabinet, OR more likely duct tape would secure the paper. Bringing me back to Failure. BTW it's not that I don't think your child's birthday is awesome and important, it's simply that I am too busy knowing where all of mine are to plan ahead.
To be fair, there are some more practical solutions to real problems on pinterest as well. Shoe storage is a common problem here. Many tears are shed in the mornings trying to find PE shoes, more often than not there is frustration on Sundays trying to find matches to dress shoes, and hell hath no fury like a triplet trying to wear her sister's sweater boot.... What if, just maybe there was practical storage that would make my darlings happy to put their shoes where they might have a snowball's chance of finding them again?!
Uh Yeah.... that is NOT it. Might be a fun cat toy though, sort of like a feline hamster wheel? Show me the house where this is not sold at the first garage sale after someone thought this might work. If my kids can't throw their shoes in a rubbermaid by the door, they cannot use this.
If my laundry room looked anything like this, I'd live in there. It would mean giving up the family room, but I think the family should see it as a small sacrifice for clean clothes. Instead it is like a tunnel of hell. It is crowded, and full of dirty clothes, clean clothes, and random crap that Kevin throws in it when he cleans the garage.
OMG, where is mom? Is she doing laundry again?!
Think I can buy kids who will put stuff back into these handy slots? We are often lucky to get the stuff back into the garage.
I absolutely LOVE this one. IF I had more than 1 set of sheets for each bed, and if I had not quit buying flat sheets years ago to make making the beds a single step, I would totally do this!
No, just no. A single drawer for all socks and it is DIY matching around here.
Kevin has at least 10 coats and jackets, you'd never see the ceiling.
I would have to lock the pantry to make this last 24 hours, but I can do this one.
There are some clever ideas on pinterest. I can now make my own dish soap if I want, I know that shower curtain rings make great scarf holders, and that I never, ever have to come up with my own way to do anything again- unless I choose to. What I really accomplished today, however, was realizing that my house will never look like that. BUT.... I had time to phone a friend today, I had time to read with my daughter, and I drove to multiple swim practices- so there is that. Be careful on the boards, it is easy to lose hours in there, and maybe a little pride.
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