It’s Friday of the first week of 31 Days of Details.
Here’s my detail for today:
It kind of makes me giggle.
My kids have recently been re-motivated to keep up with their daily checklists. Thankfully, I have one who is particularly motivated to motivate the others. (Born leader, desire to boss others around, concern for his siblings . . . whatever the reason, I’ll take it.)
Anyway, one of the easiest checks they earn is putting their dirty clothes in the hamper. So, my Reminding Child makes sure everyone does that. And, after losing the opportunity for a check last week because his undie-toss didn’t actually hit the hamper, he makes sure all-things-dirty get in the hamper.
No matter where that hamper may be.
I just noticed yesterday . . . which was THURSDAY . . . . that the hamper was in the kitchen. Near the laundry room where the laundry was sorted . . . . on MONDAY . . . . but in the kitchen.
Obviously, since they’ve been putting dirty clothes into it, they noticed that it was there.
But they didn’t notice that it being there was anything strange.
Such are the lives of the children of a slob.
My detail for the day? Move the laundry hamper back to their bathroom.
Funny. Thanks for the laugh.
At least the clothes were in the hamper and not on the floor. 🙂
My thoughts exactly, Dori!
I have been reading your blog for a while now, and feel a kinship with you. Only, I’m *not* on my way to de-slobification. lol My children are used to the hamper in the kitchen. In fact, I have two there right now. One for dirty, one for clean.
What can I say? It’s midway between the bedrooms and the laundry room.
Actually, another great blog I follow with some great organization advice (so great that I put an index to her organizational series on my blog: http://wacomom.blogspot.com/2011/10/reasonably-clean-house.html) suggests having a pretty, permanant hamper in your kitchen for kitchen stuff (towels, aprons, tablecloths, etc). I think this is a great idea! So, maybe it should stay there…but there should be another hamper where the old one was. 🙂
By the way, is your laundry room off of your kitchen? Mine is…only it’s not a room. It’s a NOOK between our kitchen and garage…it fits and washer and dryer and that’s it. I swore we weren’t going to get a house with a nook…but we loved this house otherwise and took it.
At least yours in in the hamper! Our dirty laundry often lays at the top of the basement stairs (off the kitchen) due to the washer and dryer being in the basement. Drives my husband nutty! He’s always telling me to put a hamper on the basement landing. Maybe that’ll be my detail for today!!! 🙂 🙂 Thanks for the motivation!!
Hehe, that’s too funny! My son likes to use his laundry basket as a toy so I will find it in random places around the house, sometimes full of clothes and sometimes the clothes will be all over the house too. Once, I found his laundry basket in my bed!
I love this! We don’t actually use a hamper. We have two but they currently hold piles of clothing that have not found their way out since we moved here 4 years ago. I do have a plan for that…. Anyways, All the clothes go in a big pile in front of the laundry room as the back side is reserved for the clean ones. Sigh… And don’t get me started on the trashcans. It is NEVER in the kitchen and I’m the only one who can put a bag in it.