Has your kids’ bathroom ever looked like this?
I hope you’re saying yes. I’m really hoping I’m not the only one in the world who deals with this. They claim they hang their towels on the the hooks provided, but somehow the towels ALWAYS end up on the floor. Always. And I actually believe that the kids do try to hang them up – I’ve seen those towels slip themselves right off of the hooks onto the floor. Even when the kids make the effort to hang them up, the towels just don’t like to stay on hooks. But every time I glance in their bathroom and see the towels on the floor (again!) I feel a little of my sanity slipping away.
Now, the obvious thing would be to do something about this. Probably something that doesn’t involve yelling or threats or guilt trips or anything like that, right? You certainly wouldn’t spend an entire year (or two), alternately between freaking out and just hanging their towels up for them (again) every single day, right?
Well unfortunately, I would. Until this week. I finally decided I’d had it, and it was time to do something, anything, to save my sanity.
Turns out that “something” only took fifteen minutes. I rummaged through my ribbon scraps and found some twill ribbon (anything really sturdy would work). I cut four pieces, each about six inches long (cut at an angle so the ribbon doesn’t fray). And then I sewed each piece into a loop, right in the middle of the towel’s long side. I sewed across each ribbon loop four or five times, using a short stitch, to make sure it was on there securely.
And here’s what the bathroom looks like now:
Four towels, all hung up on hooks, all unable to slip themselves onto the floor. Ahhh – serenity now!
That’s right, serenity now! (Name the show! I mean it, someone name the show in the comments – you’ll make my day.)
Fifteen minutes, and I can finally stop loosing my mind over towels on the floor, every single day. Why didn’t I do this two years ago?
Beth says
Seinfeld!!!!!
Brilliant idea, I love it
CleanUpKate says
Insanity later 😉
We lived in Japan for a year and a half and some of the bath towels I purchased had hanging loops like this 1/2 way along the long edge of the towel. I thought that was genius – as is your idea to sew your own on. My kids will spend 3 minutes trying to get a balled up towel to sit on a hook rather than just hang the bloody thing over the hook. Tell me there is hope for them yet.
Claire says
I wish I could post a pic but I did a magnet (i’m an artist) with an image of an open mouth and inside the mouth it says “serenity now!” Lol… i don’t think people get it, so I was thrilled to hear you say that (well I saw you say that I didn’t actually HEAR you)
I make towels and I’m researching loops, thanks for your tips!!