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I am not a huge fan of cleaning. I like when my house is clean, but I have no interest in actually doing the cleaning. I am, however, an organizer. Baskets, bins, shelves, cabinets—all these things do I love.
Right now I’m on the lookout for… drumroll please… a dresser for kids’ clothes. Dresser, bureau, chest of drawers, what have you. Something tall with drawers to keep the kids’ clothes in. Right now they each have closet space, plus baskets for pajamas, socks, underthings, tights, gloves, scarves, hats, and other assorted necessities.
But I’d like a dresser that would hold all the basket miscellany, plus all the tees and shorts and stretchy pants that don’t really need hanging. For all four kids. And I want to find it reasonably priced, and probably at the consignment store, or maybe from a furniture-maker that uses, you know, real wood (not particle board, not wood glue…). And it would be great if this potential dresser both fit in the space we have, and also kind of in some way coordinated with the rest of the room.
You see how it is that I have not yet found this mystical piece of furniture. I think basically what I want is an attractive and neatly organized black hole (or other interdimensional space) in which to store far more clothing than can reasonably fit in one house. But as long as I believe it’s out there, I can hold onto the dream of one day living in an organized household.
I’m just going to keep looking.
Perhaps a wardrobe, a la Narnia? You’d have a whole other country to store things.
Yes. THAT is what I need.
I was going to say something else, but I’m going with Kate’s suggestion.
And one you find one, will you duplicate it and let me know? I know I only have two kids, but somehow I STILL have the same problem!
Oh, you’ll find it. Right after you settle for something else. So just make sure the first something is very returnable.
Maybe I could sell it back to the consignment store. Whatever it is. But then I’d have to wait for it to sell… this may not be my best strategy.
I’m thinking I need to find a way to manufacture narnian wardrobes. Then I could have one for myself, one for Cindy, one for anybody else…
Yeah, I’m in the same boat. My two older boys share a dresser and the tracks for the drawers are all broken so the drawers are all a-kilter and horrible to put clothes in. And not enough room either.
If you get a tall dresser, please make sure you mount it to the wall. Both my two older boys pulled dressers down on themselves and by the grace of God weren’t hurt (you think I would have learned the first time, but no, it took a second time). The first time the dresser fell and hit the frame of a lodgepole bed and stopped before it hit the oldest; the second time, all the drawers fell open and stopped the dresser from hitting the middle one.
SO learn from my stupidity, ok? And good luck with the myth.
Thank you for thinking of this! I will definitely anchor it to the wall. This is actually why we haven’t had a dresser before now– I’m afraid my little climbers will pull the thing down on themselves. But we’ve got them convinced (mostly) not to climb the bookshelves now (which are also anchored to the walls!), so I’m hoping a dresser would go over okay-ish.