Today I did something I should have done a long time ago.
I bought a bunch of these babies:
I am throwing away [in my garbage can] EVERY.SINGLE.ONE.OF.MY.OLD.DISH.CLOTHS.
I have had the same stained, ugly, mismatched, holey, disgusting dish rags since we got married. Only, they weren’t that disgusting when we got married. It’s been the years of frequent use that ruined them. There is no redeeming them; they are being tossed. They are not even worthy enough for dust rags – of which I have plenty.
It is funny how long I’ve put up with the old ones, hating them every time I washed them. It only occurred to me a week or so ago that I could replace them all. I had that power. I could make those kind of decisions for myself and my household. I didn’t have to wait for someone else to do it for me.
I’m pretty sure this epiphany is what the folks behind the women’s lib movement had in mind.
So today at Wal-Mart, I picked out the choicest (not cheapest) dish cloths I could find and I bought 15 of ‘em. I am woman.
I can already tell you that the joy these new dish cloths will bring into my life will be embarrassingly significant.
How many other little nagging things do we put up with in our daily lives & routines that we could change easily and inexpensively? I remember when we were first listing our house to sell, we did a bunch of little fixes that we’d put off for months or years, only to realize that the actual fix took minutes and was very simple.
What is your dirty dish rag? Beautify your life today!
How utterly correct you are, Jessie. I have thought the exact thing, putting off something that would take moments to fix. I have a particular one right now that is really beginning to “bug” me. It is the light over the sink in the bathroom. the light is too low, every time I open the vanity door, the top of the door hits the bottom of the light. It drives me mad. All it takes is to move the light fixture up just a tad, an inch. I think I will get off the computer and do that right now!!
As for clean dishcloths, I am my mother’s daughter, someplace I think i could save the old for future use. Remind me to dump ‘em!!
The bathroom light is now raised, I can get the vanity doors opened. All it took was a trip to Menards, turning off the electricity, agonizing about how to raise it, calling Jamie, him coming over after dark, with no lights in the bathroom. and voila, it is fixed.
I can hardly bear to think of the next project.
You are an inspiration!!
I carry on without purchasing toilet paper probably too long.
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You ARE an inspiration. After reading this, I took a good, long, hard look at…my dishtowel drawer. And decided just like you that it was time to throw in the towel, so to speak, and let go of the 13 year old dishtowels we’d gotten as wedding presents that just weren’t pretty, not to mention sanitary anymore. And then because you are my hero and I aspire to be you, I bought a bunch of new ones, Clorox ones even. I’m such a copycat. And I understand your joy completely. Thanks for enlightening us. Good stuff.