Hi, the other day I read on a site somewhere about the all the little annoyances in our homes that we put up with simply because they are little things. It said that for a day or a week just to jot down all these things as they happen, and then find a solution. I was amazed how many things I had just not stopped to think about, and it was actually fun.
Eg: DH loves his cups of tea, but it was always a pain to carry a drippy used tea bag from our "tea and coffee making nook" to the trash bin: Aha, we found an itty bitty bin that hides in the nook and is just for his tea bags.
I was always annoyed about losing the potato peeler among the bigger utensils in the drawer. Aha. I hung it on a nail under the sink which is the only place I use it anyway.
My recipe books kept slipping down in the cupboard I keep them in. It took DH about 5 minutes to screw a metal bar in there to act as a book end and now they stay up.
We have a king size bed, and the sheets are almost a square but not quite. For years we would put the fitted sheet half on, only to have it the wrong way round, until last year, DH said, "I'm sick of this, can't you just mark the sheets, "Side" "bottom" "top" ? Just two minutes with a black marker, and we've saved ourselves hours of wasted little moments of frustration.
There are still things I haven't found an answer for:
Teenage DS simply CANNOT remember to hang up the wet bath mat, no matter what, it just doesn't register. I've thought of elastic to make it bounce back, a whoopy cushion sewn under it so when he steps on it, it reminds him, a sign sewn in the middle of it!!!?? It makes for interesting sleepless night mind games.
I'd really love to hear if other people are like me...if you've put up with stuff that could have been overcome easily for the sake of a few minutes time and effort and thought. Could we find solutions for each others pet peeves? It's fun to think outside the box sometimes. And sometimes the answer is just staring us in the face, but because it's the way we've always "done it", we just keep on putting up with things.
Eg: DH loves his cups of tea, but it was always a pain to carry a drippy used tea bag from our "tea and coffee making nook" to the trash bin: Aha, we found an itty bitty bin that hides in the nook and is just for his tea bags.
I was always annoyed about losing the potato peeler among the bigger utensils in the drawer. Aha. I hung it on a nail under the sink which is the only place I use it anyway.
My recipe books kept slipping down in the cupboard I keep them in. It took DH about 5 minutes to screw a metal bar in there to act as a book end and now they stay up.
We have a king size bed, and the sheets are almost a square but not quite. For years we would put the fitted sheet half on, only to have it the wrong way round, until last year, DH said, "I'm sick of this, can't you just mark the sheets, "Side" "bottom" "top" ? Just two minutes with a black marker, and we've saved ourselves hours of wasted little moments of frustration.
There are still things I haven't found an answer for:
Teenage DS simply CANNOT remember to hang up the wet bath mat, no matter what, it just doesn't register. I've thought of elastic to make it bounce back, a whoopy cushion sewn under it so when he steps on it, it reminds him, a sign sewn in the middle of it!!!?? It makes for interesting sleepless night mind games.
I'd really love to hear if other people are like me...if you've put up with stuff that could have been overcome easily for the sake of a few minutes time and effort and thought. Could we find solutions for each others pet peeves? It's fun to think outside the box sometimes. And sometimes the answer is just staring us in the face, but because it's the way we've always "done it", we just keep on putting up with things.
wait now I know how to handle it if I get scary sheets like that some day!
s
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