Get Organized for Fall, Y"all!
In my column last month I talked about cleaning out your closets and finding good, inexpensive Halloween costumes.
This month, I am looking at the laundry room in a whole new light! I will try to draw a picture here for you of mine.
I have pictures of my children and cute boxes up on the shelf that most people store laundry detergents, fabric softeners, and stain removers.
I was going to be spending an hour a day down there and I want to be surrounded by things I love while I am paring up socks.
So there are broad stripes on the walls in a peacock blue over white and a Botacelli print of The Primavera.
I have a Sterilite 3 drawer storage unit that holds the iron and vinegar, (to wash the formaldehyde out of new clothes and the fabric softener out of the adored hand me downs from thoughtful friends and family.
) Now I don't have to see my ugly bottles of soaps, but instead a clean, organized room.
It also holds the OxyClean spot remover, because I refuse to use anything with more chemicals.
I have it in liquid, for those little stains and in powder, when the whole load just needs some extra help.
And I have my All Free and Clear because who needs more chemically scented junk in their lives? That is it.
No liquid or cloth fabric softener, because they are horrible.
Look it up.
It is full of oils, to keep the static down.
But 100% cotton (which is best for our skin to breathe) does not get staticy! And the oils make clothes dingier and easier to attract more dirt.
Plus our skin is our biggest organ.
Would you want your children to breathe in the chemicals that are in these fabric softeners? Read on the back of some of the bottles; they don't LIST the ingredients but give a website, hoping that most people don't have the time to check.
Well I did.
And then I had to look up each chemical online.
Some of the chemicals are even neurotoxins.
None are good for our bodies or our water supply, which is where they end up.
ANYWAY.
What I meant to say was that you only need a few things in your laundry room; even if it also serves as a storage area for extra paper products.
Wouldn't you enjoy having all your rooms to your liking? To your standard? You can be proud of each room in your home and unapologetic if things are stored in out of the way places.
NO room should be a headache.
Go online and look up 'Pottery Barn Laundry Room' or 'Martha Stewart - Laundry Rooms.
' You'll find something that catches your eye.
Laundry is depressing enough.
Must the room be also?
This month, I am looking at the laundry room in a whole new light! I will try to draw a picture here for you of mine.
I have pictures of my children and cute boxes up on the shelf that most people store laundry detergents, fabric softeners, and stain removers.
I was going to be spending an hour a day down there and I want to be surrounded by things I love while I am paring up socks.
So there are broad stripes on the walls in a peacock blue over white and a Botacelli print of The Primavera.
I have a Sterilite 3 drawer storage unit that holds the iron and vinegar, (to wash the formaldehyde out of new clothes and the fabric softener out of the adored hand me downs from thoughtful friends and family.
) Now I don't have to see my ugly bottles of soaps, but instead a clean, organized room.
It also holds the OxyClean spot remover, because I refuse to use anything with more chemicals.
I have it in liquid, for those little stains and in powder, when the whole load just needs some extra help.
And I have my All Free and Clear because who needs more chemically scented junk in their lives? That is it.
No liquid or cloth fabric softener, because they are horrible.
Look it up.
It is full of oils, to keep the static down.
But 100% cotton (which is best for our skin to breathe) does not get staticy! And the oils make clothes dingier and easier to attract more dirt.
Plus our skin is our biggest organ.
Would you want your children to breathe in the chemicals that are in these fabric softeners? Read on the back of some of the bottles; they don't LIST the ingredients but give a website, hoping that most people don't have the time to check.
Well I did.
And then I had to look up each chemical online.
Some of the chemicals are even neurotoxins.
None are good for our bodies or our water supply, which is where they end up.
ANYWAY.
What I meant to say was that you only need a few things in your laundry room; even if it also serves as a storage area for extra paper products.
Wouldn't you enjoy having all your rooms to your liking? To your standard? You can be proud of each room in your home and unapologetic if things are stored in out of the way places.
NO room should be a headache.
Go online and look up 'Pottery Barn Laundry Room' or 'Martha Stewart - Laundry Rooms.
' You'll find something that catches your eye.
Laundry is depressing enough.
Must the room be also?
