Yes, yes... It's true. I like things to be in its place. I feel unsettled when things are undone, unfixed, unorganized. Is it part of being a control freak? I want everybody to be happy whether they want to be or not.
Good grief! Where was I going with this post? I was really wanting to write about my kitchen drawer.
Art noticed that the drawer organizers were getting cracked. It's something about the salt air in Hawaii that makes plastic crack.
When we renovated the kitchen 7 years ago, I threw together these old drawer organizers to store our utensils. It was a mishmosh, but it worked out OK.
We went to Bed, Bath and Beyond with our 20% off coupon (and gift card from my brother and sister-in-law) and bought kitchen drawer organizers.
I like it a whole lot better, but I suspect nobody will notice.
Mom looked at it and said, "I like it the other way better."
Sigh... "Why?" I asked.
"I need the chopsticks for cooking and all kinds of stuff," she insisted.
Sigh...
"OK" she agreed. "Now it's better."
And now there's just the rest of the house to organize.
Good grief! Where was I going with this post? I was really wanting to write about my kitchen drawer.
Art noticed that the drawer organizers were getting cracked. It's something about the salt air in Hawaii that makes plastic crack.
When we renovated the kitchen 7 years ago, I threw together these old drawer organizers to store our utensils. It was a mishmosh, but it worked out OK.
We went to Bed, Bath and Beyond with our 20% off coupon (and gift card from my brother and sister-in-law) and bought kitchen drawer organizers.
I like it a whole lot better, but I suspect nobody will notice.
Mom looked at it and said, "I like it the other way better."
Sigh... "Why?" I asked.
"I need the chopsticks for cooking and all kinds of stuff," she insisted.
Sigh...
"OK" she agreed. "Now it's better."
And now there's just the rest of the house to organize.
maybe we both have a bit of spring pushing our cleaning and organizing buttons! we have had so little winter that i think i am in a sort of spring mode. i am an organizing freak too. i need everything to be in it's place!
ReplyDeleteI like the new way better, but really you WERE missing the chopsticks. :-)
ReplyDeleteLove this post and I need you at my house, my kitchen drawer looks like your first photo
ReplyDeleteMy organizing will take over in the Spring when I get a really big case of Spring fever. I also like things very well organized and put away. I'm not too big on a bit of dust, but I don't like clutter. Nice job!
ReplyDeleteI never have seen two women organize their kitchens in the same way.
ReplyDeleteDoesn't look like a fetish to me...looks perfectly normal, now that the chopsticks are in their place.
ReplyDeleteOh, delightful. Now you have pleased everybody too. :)
ReplyDeleteIt's never ending because we are always adding more stuff to our lives daily!!!
ReplyDeleteYour first few lines of this post
ReplyDeletedescribe me perfectly...
I am working on giving much away
and living simpler.
But
still too much stuff..
I worked with a neat freak once. All the books on her office shelves were perfectly lined up. One day an imp got into me and when I was walking by her office and she wasn't there, I pulled out one book halfway so it was really obviously out of line. When I walked past her office the next time, that book had been pushed back and all was carefully neat again.
ReplyDeleteI'm with you. I can't stand a jumble. It's good you could work out a happy solution for knives, forks, and chopsticks. :-)
ReplyDeleteI couldn't help noticing how many of those tong things you have! Are you collecting them? Obviously your style of cooking must call for using them frequently, but why so many? There would be more room for chopsticks! :-)
ReplyDeleteWe use the tongs every night for serving assorted dinner dishes. Then we need a lot for our pot lucks. And we need different sizes for different types of food and barbecuing.
DeleteYou're too funny. I need new drawers period. Some day...some day.
ReplyDeleteGot to go with your Mom on this . First think I thought of was 'where are the chopsticks'? Well done, both of you.
ReplyDeleteToo funny! You are very observant. We do have chopsticks in other places, but she felt it was necessary to have them here as well.
DeleteAt least she didn't ask for the plastic cutlery to stay in the drawer.
ReplyDeleteDoes make one feel better to be organized
ReplyDeleteALOHA from Honolulu-side
ComfortSpiral
<3
I wouldn't use the fetish word but maybe you are particular.
ReplyDeleteIt looks very nice. I never buy anything without a coupon at Bed, Bath, and Beyond.
ReplyDeleteLOL....both ways stuill looks much better than my "organised" mess
ReplyDeleteI feel better looking at those nice tidy drawers. I have just been in my own. Now I know what I am going to do with my 20 percent off coupon.
ReplyDeleteI too struggle with that.... I love your Mom... I wanted to thank you so much for your comment about the baby. I struggle with the fact that we won't be the grandparents who live across the street, but I see how you manage long distance and it cheers me up.... Ps... My daughter is getting married Friday... Not the order of events that I would have preferred, but my Father told me I was being too old fashioned... Ha ha....
ReplyDeleteTomorrow? Oh wow! How exciting, Michelle. Have a wonderful time! Actually, I know quite a few young people who don't even believe in marriage at all. Sigh.
DeleteThat is an interesting opening to a post.
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