Somebody, please, put me away.
Do you ever feel like you’re the only one in your house that puts things away?
From the clean laundry to the old photographs you looked at six months ago to the screwdriver that was used to pry a penny out of the washing machine.
You know what I’m talking about. I know you do.
A few weeks ago, my husband brought home a pack of 30 rolls of toilet paper from Costco. We go through a pack this size every few months.
I don’t know if that’s a lot but there are a couple of teens in my house and a husband who may or may not have an overactive sphincter.
Having a lot of toilet paper in the house alleviates one of my leftover fears from living in Manhattan for 11 years. That I would run out of toilet paper mid-squat. And have to opt for paper towels a reasonable facsimile until I could get to the corner Duane Reade.
And even though I live in South Florida now, having extra toilet paper in the house (or paper towels or tampons) makes me feel good.
But this most recent pack of toilet paper, leaning against the wall near our downstairs bathroom, stayed in our entryway for a few weeks.
I take the blame for not putting it away. Honestly, it is one of my “jobs” to put stuff like this away. Break up the pack and distribute it to the three bathrooms we have in the house. But in the three weeks the toilet paper sat there, nobody even mentioned it. Even though we all walked by it multiple times a day.
The other day, like a bolt of lightning had hit me, I realized it was still there. It had become part of our decor, like that stack of books I haven’t read in over a year. Which got me to thinking, maybe there were other ways a big pack of toilet paper could be used. At least while we’re waiting for our supply to run out.
I think that I may be on to something.
A Coffee Table
A Body Pillow
HOV Lane Companion (Complete with Brooklyn Nets hat.)
Outdoor Sculpture
Installation Art
And, of course, if none of these ideas works for you, you can always store your toilet paper the conventional way.
The Linen Closet
On The Roll
Now if I could just figure out what to do with that giant gallon size jar of Hellman’s Light mayonnaise. Other than buy a four pound can of tuna.
Credit for all photos except tuna: Julia D. Cullen
3 comments
Hotly Spiced says:
Mar 11, 2013
The people in my family have the same disease. No one sees the mess or the things that need to be put away. If all that toilet paper was at my house and it was left in the hall by the front door, they would all just step over it. I have to put everything away. Alfie went on a scouts weekend. My husband picked him up and when they walked in through the front door, Carl put his overnight bag across the entrance to the dining room – just so I could trip over it in the dark. It’s been there two whole days. Is anyone going to move it or unpack it? I think they all think we live in Downton Abbey with 30 servants hiding out on a lower level, all waiting to pick up after them. It has never occurred to them that there’s just one person doing EVERYTHING. xx
Leslie says:
Mar 11, 2013
That’s hysterical. Our large package of toilet paper (and we use more than you do, although maybe that’s because I buy the cheapie brand) often sits right outside the downstairs bathroom door till most of it’s gone. No one puts it away unless I do, or tell someone else to.
Jen says:
Mar 11, 2013
Well at least it’s in a convenient spot. I love it when someone will scream from inside the bathroom, “There’s no toilet paper.” When in fact, if they looked under the cabinet, there would be at least a few rolls.