Saturday, April 02, 2011

More Neurotic Behavior?

The dishtowels. Dishtowels are my "one weakness" as Miss Lane says in Lark Rise to Candleford. I wash them a lot. Pretty much any time I feel they've been there for more than a few days, or after they start to get even remotely scummy, they hit the laundry. I own a lot of dishtowels, many of which are starting to look more like rags than dishtowels from lots of use and even more washing. You can imagine my distress when I opened the drawer and saw this:



GASP!! It's like living a nightmare: No clean dishtowels (it feels strangely like my childhood). True there are clean ones downstairs on the couch waiting to be folded, but still, this is a near tragedy for this dishtowel fanatic who had a refrigerator emergency this week.


But I digress... where was I? Oh yes, neurotic behavior. As you now know, I have a fair number of dishtowels, and most are in sets that match each other. I was recently mocked when someone I live with caught me putting away the dishtowels in sets: the leaf ones together, the matching flower ones together, etc. This isn't crazy right?It's just practical. I want the matching ones out at the same time. Why wouldn't I put them away together?? Right??


There, that's better. Clean and sorted. Not neurotic at all.

3 comments:

Barbara said...

Haha. I would probably care more about my towels except that they have long since been relegated to the "kiddie cupboard" and so they are constantly being thrown on the floor and then shoved haphazardly back inside. Sigh. At least Henry knows where to find a towel when he has a mess to clean up.

Kate said...

I do laundry daily (about a load or two a day) and I always throw in the previous days dishtowels. I like them to be fresh, and with two kids they are always winding up on the floor. :-P I'm also particular about how they are folded.

Andrea said...

Hmmm...that towel drawer looks a lot like ours...I'll give you one guess who organizes it...