Look at this I have posted five, count them five blog updates in the past 24 hours! That is definitely a record for me. :) Anyway, I am still reading More Hours in My Day and I am thoroughly enjoying it. I can totally tell that my mom read this as a young mother. There are so many things that she suggests that I think to myself "Well of course you would do it that way!" And then remember the reason I think that is because I was raised that way.
For example, she suggests that you color code everything. Each family member has a color and their possessions are labeled according to that color. My mother took this one to the extreme!! We each had our own color, that just so happened to be our favorite color. Looking back, I wonder if those were really our favorites or if Mom just convinced us that they were, hmmm?
Anyway, my color was pink. My clothes hangers were pink, my clean clothes basket was pink, my dry-erase marker for the family calendar was pink, even my Easter basket most years was filled with pink items. She even labeled our toys, if not with a pink marker at least with our initial. I remember her commenting once that she didn't know how people named their kids names with the same first letter, "How would they keep all of their toys strait?"
It's funny how I took that forgranted. When I got married I remember thinking my husband's side of the closet looked like a warzone! He had all sorts of wire hangers, coat hangers, and all different colors of plastic hangers. I couldn't even imagine such. I won't even mention how he just put the clean clothes in the front of the rack without taking the time to arrange them neatly by color and/or category. Needless to say, I made a Wal-mart trip just to pick up black plastic hangers. It was immediately better! He now at least puts his clothes according to sleeve length and has a whole lower rack for pants. We are still working on color order, but he still doesn't see the point in that. As long as he takes them from the laundry room to the closet I won't complain!
She has so many more tips that I am ready to implement and/or perfect. Hopefully before long my home will be easily organized and stress free.
4 comments:
This is definitely the book that changed my life as a young mother! I am really enjoying reading it again and looking forward to using it to get me back on track! Now back to the book!!!
I'm impressed that Alex even handles his clothes once they are clean! Is he really my husband's brother?? Dale has baskets and bags full of clean clothes that have been sitting in the same place for weeks. I'm not going to touch them because I want to see how long it will take before he does something about them (do you remember the Everybody Loves Raymond episode where Ray left his suitcase on the stairs and it started to smell bc there was cheese in it but Debra refused to move it? That's what this feels like :) Ha!
That is too funny Scarlotte! I have seen that episode.
He will put his clean clothes away, but I'm not saying I don't have to remind him. They do tend to stay in the laundry room way too long! But if I am honest mine do as well. That is all about to change!
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