The Dirtiest Place(s) in My House

I’m hoping this is universal.

I searched my soul for the answer to the question, “What spot in your house would you be most horrified for your mother-in-law to see?” And after considering:

a)    My pantry drawer
b)    My closet (it’s better now! I organized it!)
c)    Under my sofa cushions, for Pete’s sake (next time I buy new sofas, I’m getting the kind with no removable cushions)
d)    My produce drawers (rot, rot, rot)

I settled on:

e)    The cabinet space under my kitchen and bathroom sinks.

Why is that area such a dank, unclean place? I know it has something to do with the humidity. Water moves through pipes, the pipes might occasionally burst a vessel and drip a bit, there are cleaning (or bath) products under there. Yuck!

Since we redid the Lodge, I’ve been doing something really strange. After I clean up the kitchen and get ready to head back to my house, I open the cabinet doors under the sink...and I leave them open. I leave them open as much as possible. I figure less chaos can happen with all that air and light circulating through.

So far, it has really done the trick! I’m going to start doing it at my house, since my baby is now about to turn five and I don’t have to worry about him polishing off any of the cleaning supplies.

This is really weird, but when I first started blogging I wrote faux poetry because I used to make fun of my sister when she’d send me Sylvia Plath poetry via email. Don’t get me wrong—I love Sylvia Plath and all. But her stuff is just so tragic.

In that phase of mine, I wrote about abandoned toiletries under the kitchen sink. Here’s my poem:

I’m a vessel of ancient creme rinse
Left for dead far beneath the bathroom sink
So very long ago.
No one knows I’m here
In this dank and humid tomb.
Just throw me away
Today.

I don’t know why I shared that with you just now. It just seemed to fit.

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