As previously mentioned, I'm a bit anal. In the comments of that story, my friend Michael eluded to the fact that I'm a big fan of the tri-fold on every towel in my townhome, which he has personally witnessed when staying at my home while in Denver. I think the tri-fold looks so much better when towels are hanging on the rack and it leaves more room on the rack for air to flow around the towels so they don't get that musty smell. People that discount my tri-fold say that the towels dry faster when folded in half but I say if your towel isn't dry from the last shower, you probably live in the most humid place on Earth (which I believe is Hilo, Hawaii) or you take too many showers.While semi-shacking up in Boulder at my boyfriend's house (most of my clothes, shoes, purses are here and my hockey stuff), I've overtaken the folding of the towels in the place into the tri-fold, with little resistance from the beau, who now folds his own towels in threes. There's two fingertip towels in the master bath that I let remain in half-fold as a peace-keeping offer.
On a related note, we had a maid come and do a deep cleaning of the house yesterday. I was anxious about having a maid come in and clean because of the aforementioned personality trait that lends me to believe that I can clean anything better than a maid and want it done a certain way anyway, but faced with the fact that I work all day, play hockey all night, and ski on the weekends, I realized I don't have time to deep clean. So run-on sentence or not, I thought I'd chain up my anxiety and give it a go.
When I got back to the house after work, the first thing I noticed is that the house smelled like a mixed bouquet of cleaners, and then I noticed the living room rug was out of place. Then I noticed that there were many things out of place. The maid cleaned the refrigerator, which is awesome, and generally got things back to the right shelf. But beyond that, I had to rearrange everything back to an order that clearly made sense. I started to re-think the whole maid thing. Is this going to drive me crazy so much that I will turn down the services of someone to do all that dusting and crap I don't want to do?
My doubting face went to the bathrooms to inspect some more. They were both sparkling clean and aside from the shampoo and conditioner bottles being in the wrong spot on one shower, and a dust ball from a rag sitting on the drain in the other, I was pleased. Then I noticed - there in the master bath, the two hand towels were folded not as they had been left, but in threes. I stared at the tri-folded tips and felt so vindicated. A-ha!
I now know that I can live with having a maid.
13 players in the box:
Resistance is futile!!
Do you fold the end of the toilet paper into that little fan? ;^)
Is this a picture of you? my woman likes the tri-fold technique as well, and I always get yelled at for not doing it.
Here's what I learned on the housekeeper front, which was confirmed by a good friend of mine - who lives in your vacinity BTW. Housekeepers do their very, very best work on the first visit. It sort of slacks off from their. My theory: just like we think in our own homes, "didn't I just clean that?"
Some friends of mine shared a housekeeper they loved because she folded the toilet paper end in a triangle!
should be from *there*, not their! Grrrr. I do enough stupid stuff because of stuff I don't know, I don't need to do stupid stuff with stuff I *do* know!!
It must be love, because all that fussy stuff you have to do just makes me smile.
And besides, I never load the dishwasher and I always execute the tri-fold. Now where's my biscuit?
MJ: Well, yes.
Skydad: I can make a hat, a brooch, or a pterodactyl...
dave: Your woman is very wise.
anon: I've heard that too. Time will tell, I guess.
michael: Always? Are you sure about that big boy?
Little did I know the hand towels were a peace offering. They're so small though--I always thought they looked too narrow with more than one fold, and they aren't wide enough for my face in the folded state. But I must defer to the artist for all things aesthetic. I must admit the living room rug looks much better on the diagonal...
I aspire to your eye for detail.
My husband and I are selling our house and I have had to keep the place really really clean in case people want to come look at it. With two young children it is an exercise in futility some days. It's been hard, but it has also made me realize that I want my house to look like this forever.
I am so excited to move into a new house and "start fresh". I actually daydream about closet organizers and storage bins.
But how do you fold socks?
I'm slighty put off by what I glean as you are gradually taking over this poor guy's domicile with your freakish idiosyncracies. I wonder if your making "cutsie" about your insane mannerisms isn't just some ploy to move the focus from your really BIG analocity that's going to cause him to snap.
Binky: Big analocity? There is no such thing.
Oh My God! You are Gran right now.
But, I totally understand!
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