Well the new layout on the towel shelf in the linen closet seems to be working. It lays out so evenly and well that I could even label the front of the shelf if I wanted to help husband figure out which are the towels he likes and which he hates. (He takes towels and after he starts using them he realizes that they are not the ones he likes.)
I am not sure if I have mentioned that among the other crafts that husband and I work at, husband does weaving. He had always wanted to do this and a few years ago we found a floor standing loom that was small enough to fit in our living room, but large enough for him to weave scarves, shawls, table runners and the like. This past September he bought a second one that is narrower and smaller to bring to events where he is selling his weaving to demonstrate. He also has a much smaller loom that is a reproduction of a type used in earlier centuries that makes fabric tape used in clothing in the period. (Remember Disney's “Snow White? The ties across the front of her clothing would have been this type of tape.) After a piece is woven it has to be washed to “set” it. If he uses the dryer to dry the pieces they end up with folds that we have to iron to try to get out. He uses large white towels to roll the pieces in to take down the wetness of them (similar to wringing something out so it is not dripping wet). He bought a towel to use for drying himself that he hates and it has been in the linen closet taking up space. I took it out when I redid the layout and brought it to the living room (which is the “loom room” mid January to mid December) for him to have it to use when drying pieces he has woven.
With the new layout working and the removal of the above towel and the two large ones mentioned last week – I decided to move the shelf below the one I worked on. The two larger towels had been on that shelf. Currently they are rolled up in a bag and will stored on the top shelf of the closet in a spot we cannot reach without a step ladder.
The shelf below had our bed sheets, our spare mattress pad, and the 2 large towels and was jammed. The sheets are still in a stack (we have 3 sets – one on the bed, one being washed, and the next ones to put on the bed, so the most in the stack in 2 sets of sheets. The pillowcases hang below the shelf in a wire hanging shelf, like those below the first shelf. There is a second wire shelf hanging with pillowcases from old sets of sheets - the sheets wore out, but the pillowcases are still good. In addition to still being usable for sleeping, they are also good for putting needlework or cloth dolls that we have made to protect them when going to an exhibition. The sheets have remained where they were. The mattress pad is folded in thirds the length of them and then rolled up - for some reason this is the best way to store it. Instead of putting it side to side on the shelf, I put it on the end of the shelf from front to back. Fit perfect – okay, it did take a bit of pushing to get it in place.
I then managed to fit a couple of spare shower towels between the sheets and the pad – they are still folded in quarters and are pushed to the back of the shelf. I put our spare bath mat on top of these spare towels. We have 3 “bar towels” that we use in the bathroom to wipe up things when we notice they are wet. Normally two of them are in use and I will rotate the three of them to laundry one while two are in use. I put the third one of same in front of the spare bath towels/bat mat.
Again, a shelf that seems to work great!
Next I have to go through things on the wire hanging shelves on the inside of the closet door to get rid of stuff. Husband tends to buy shampoos when he is not happy with the one he is using, not like them, and stick on these shelves – and they are not sample bottles. I will toss out about 4 or 5 bottles of shampoo. There are a variety of other items that have accumulated on these shelves that I will also get rid of. Anything of his, of course, I ask before I toss. I hope to have enough room on these shelves so boxes of bandaids do not have to be stacked on each other and fall down on our heads, as well as fit washcloths and guest hand towels on the shelves – or else they will have to be fit on one of the two shelves. I might even be able to put the box of “ear swabs” right side up on a shelf – right now it is sideways and sometimes swabs fall out.
THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK -
Little by little this is being accomplished. If I tried to do it all at once it would not get done. Try doing small bits of organizing when you can.
This week I hope to defrost a small spare freezer in our basement – there is years of ice in it. We have not really used it in awhile, but the freezer in the new refrigerator seems smaller than the one in the old one – and I am not allowed to put anything against the back wall of it as, apparently, that stops the air from moving correctly.
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