Let's Talk About Your Textiles

Today, in assisting you with your 40 Bags in 40 Days project, we will focus on your dirty little secret: the Linen Closet.  I understand you may not have an actual closet; it may be a few shelves in your bathroom,  your clothes closet, or under your sink.  I would wager that wherever it is, it's replete with extra linen-y type stuff.  

How many towels you use on a daily basis is up to you.  You may have toddlers who bathe daily and make messes that you need a time machine to keep up with.  Or perhaps the teenage girls in your home who need a towel for hair, a towel for body, and a towel for feet make the laundry a prison-job type chore.  Regardless of populace, you likely have more towels in that closet than your family uses.  Go through and dispose of all but one or two extra.  Most households keep what we refer to here at the ranch as "dog towels".  They are for pups' muddy feet as well as unplanned spills of epic proportions like washing machine regurgitation.  If they become irrevocably stained, they go in the trash.  Have a Bed Bath and Beyond coupon? Use it.  Replace towels as needed.  Unnecessary to keep enough for the Grand Budapest Hotel.

This applies to bed sheets as well.  If you have a potty-trainer bunking at your home, an extra change or two of that toddler bed is necessary for sanity.  The rest of us need perhaps one set of sheets to live folded in the closet, if that.  Take them off your bed on Saturday morning, wash, and return to the bed. Who wants to fold a fitted sheet, anyway? Who even knows HOW?  This whole towel/sheet rotation concept to ensure even wear and tear is cluttery, wasteful and mentally strenuous.  Use and enjoy what you own. How can you love 600 thread count sheets if they're in the closet? 

Keep your linens neat and uncluttered.  More joy will come to you when you open your closet and gaze into your crisp and orderly folded towels and sheets.

Happy DeTextile-ing, friends!

Master bathroom linen closet