I love to clean. I have always loved to clean. No one ever made me do it. No one expected it of me. I was just born with a cleaning gene. My mom even has a picture of me when I was 2 years old running a vacuum! I looked like I knew what I was doing even as a toddler. I also like to organize. Actually, I live to organize. The more disorganized something is the more I like it. And then, I figure out the puzzle of how to organize the mess and make it all good and wonderful and accessible and handy and pretty. Finally, my passion in life is to decorate. I LOVE to decorate! My favorite part about decorating is to use what you have and not have to buy anything or to buy very little. It is amazing what you already have around the house that you can use as decorative items.
I have read the decorating books. I have watched the home improvement shows on television. My favorite show used to be "This Old House" with Bob Villa. But honestly, he got on my nerves. I felt like he talked people into things that they didn't want to do which ended up costing the home owners more money than they wanted to spend. All for the sake of Bob's show. Not a good thing.
My new favorite show is "Clean House". Now, that is a good show! The crew defines the rooms to be improved, cleans out the clutter with the help of the home owners, has a yard sale, matches and uses the money to create a real home improvement budget for the owners, donates certain items for the project such as carpet or furnishings, does all of the work while allowing the home owners to stay and relax at a local hotel and then.... TA DA!!! The crew then shows the new and improved home to the owners and there are a lot of ooohhhss and aaahhhhs and happy tears! It has all of the elements I like... cleaning, organizing and decorating!
Unlike the show, "Hoarders". I don't like "Hoarders". "Hoarders" is like watching a train wreck that makes you sick to your stomach but you can't look away. Luckily, I don't have to watch the channel as I have the power to skip it completely. After seeing the first one or two episodes, I just can't watch it. I don't want to watch it. Those poor people are ill and don't realize it. I hope they get the help they need to stop hoarding.
Anywhooooo, back to my original thought. I love to clean, organize and decorate. Yeah! I like happy clouds and happy trees and happy decorations in my world to paraphrase Bob Ross. So, lately, I have put myself on a real mission to clean, organize and decorate our place. It is a small space that requires much thought on the organizing method. I really have to utilize all of the space very wisely. I drew up a plan initially but the plan has evolved with action and had to be revised. These were good revisions that presented themselves as the project progressed. I am becoming very happy and having FUN, FUN, FUN! Alas, there is still much to do and I am sooooo looking forward to each and every step of the process.
My latest step is how to handle the extra linens without a linen closet and only one little shelf. Now mind you I don't have that many extra linens but there are some sheets, towels, curtains and tablecloths. Since we live in a downstairs apartment, there is a "closet" of sorts under the stairwell, like the one in "Harry Potter" that holds the sump pump. So, that is going to be the one and only closet in the place. So, I went out and bought three space bags (on sale at Kmart!). These are the bags that you put a bunch of stuff in, zip it up like a Ziploc bag, attach your vacuum hose to it, suck out all of the air, compact everything and then store it. It makes your items water tight and bug proof. Bought it, did it and it's done. BUT, here is the problem. The sheets. Those annoying King Size bed sheets. Do you know how hard it is to fold King Size bed sheets when you are only one person and you stand a mere 5'3". My wingspan isn't long enough nor am I tall enough to keep the darn thing off the floor. The flat sheet isn't too bad but I never get it just right. The corners are always off and it ends up lopsided. But, at least it is folded. Now, the fitted sheet is another story altogether. I hate fitted sheets. I can't fold that thing for anything. I have tried. God knows I have tried. I get so unnerved trying to fold the unfoldable that I end up balling the stupid sheet up at the end. Frustrating! Then my space bag looks "off" like it is pregnant with a three month "baby bump". Not to mention that my one little shelf (that holds the one extra set of sheets) cannot look "appointed" because everything else is neat and tidy and then you have this one fitted sheet that jacks up the whole thing. Ugh!
So, as you well know, I hate technology on so many levels. If you have read my blog you know this quite well. But.... the other day.... as I was contemplating the fitted sheet dilemma... a light bulb went off in my head! The internet!!!! I will Google "how to fold a fitted sheet"! If the internet knows when Lindsay Lohan sneezes then surely it will have instructions on "how to fold a fitted sheet"! Do you know what? It is so exciting!!! Not only did the internet have instructions on "how to fold a fitted sheet", there was a VIDEO!!! And not just one video but NUMEROUS videos by different people. It was A M A Z I N G !!!!
So I watched several videos, chose the one I felt comfortable with, re-watched it three times, THEN, put my fitted sheet in the dryer to take out the wrinkles, followed the video instructions and GUESS WHAT!!!???? I folded a DAMN FITTED SHEET!
Until next time,
Anne
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