I’ve been focusing on my daily checklist this week in an attempt to get back into routine and get the house into shape after the loosi-goosiness of summer.

On the checklist?  Check the bathrooms for clutter.

Mmm-hmmm.  This has been a non-negotiable task for me since the first month or so of my deslobification process.

Not that I don’t ever negotiate it away. 

So as I was checking this task off my list on Monday, I was forced to solve the mystery of what in the world that thing in the picture was.  I’d been seeing-but-not-seeing it all summer, but didn’t do anything with it because it looked kind of important.

Once I looked more closely, I realized that it was a piece of my iron.

Evidently, this piece is my iron’s appendix, important enough to be included in the design, surely helpful in some not-immediately-obvious way, but ultimately something that the iron can live without.

Thank you, Daily Checklist for helping me focus so I can be free of one more surely-it’s-important-but-I’m-not-sure-why-so-I-should-probably-keep-it item.