My Idea

I have been having a horrible time being motivated to get the laundry done and put away lately because there just hasn't been room to put it away. And we don't even have very many clothes each. All of our laundry is in two dressers and one closet for the whole family. Coats are in a separate closet. I did this because the children would inevitably throw the clean in with the dirty in their rooms and I kept having to wash everything all over again, not fun. So all the laundry had been moved into the school room closet and the dressers put in there. But we had grown out of the closet. I had given up and felt hopeless, my poor husband was feeling the same way. When I realized his despair I began to pray for a solution. Not having any money to buy anything limits the options, but I knew there had to be one.

So when David was gone yesterday and I was making a half-hearted attempt to put away the clean laundry it came to me. I took one of the closet rods from the kids room and some extra clothesline I had bought for a craft project earlier this year. The rod in the school room closet is extremely high because we had raised it for storage purposes. So, now I took everything out of the closet and measured down the right length of clothesline. I doubled it so that it is a double strength and tied it around each end of the rod. Next I took my staple gun and secured the clothes line to the rod so that it couldn't slide off the end. Then I tied the clothesline to the upper rod, which doubled the clothing storage space.

David's clothes are on the upper-left rod, mine are on the upper-right rod. The children's clothes are on the lower bar with the boys on the left and the girls on the right. This holds all of our in season clothes! God is so good to show me how to solve this problem with things we already have.

Next I want to tackle the dressers. They are cheapies and they are falling apart. When you pull a drawer out it slides out onto the floor or my foot, ouch. I think I will buy some of those stacking plastic drawers. Not the really wide ones, because they get to heavy and the drawers don't open or shut right. I can try to buy one set at a time each grocery shopping trip until that problem is solved.

I am just so encouraged. I was starting to feel like we really are growing out of our house, which is a bad way to feel. Now I have hope that with creativity and lots of prayer, our home can be a pleasant place.