I am going to see if I can get an interview with the pantry organizer so we can all learn something. I have been contemplating for years just posting a photo of my Tupperware etc drawer with the caption "help."
Loved this. I’m making notes on the chore thing. I am like the kids in the story: an older brother to a pair of twins. Summer chores used to be terrible in our house. Endless horse trading on a list we were given every day before my parents left for work, and we’d only be given pocket money if they were done.
Please do! I'm a mildly organized person, kitchen and everywhere else -- not obsessive about it by any means, but also not a total mess, just somewhere in the always-clean-but-also-a-little-disheveled middle, and I would be all over this.
I'm about two hours east of Raleigh, NC, but wouldn't mind being looped in with other central/eastern NC witches. (I'd also be down for a witchy Slack group!)
At my house for a long time we had something called the Initiative Bin. Whenever I found their random crap laying around the house I would pick it up and put it in the Initiative Bin and when they wanted that thing back, they'd have to perform an act of initiative to get it back. Usually that just meant cleaning their room or the kitchen without being asked. I still cackle a little on the inside when I think of the time I had picked up so many of my daughter's socks and put them in the initiative bin that she was having to wear sneakers with no socks to school (which she hates) because she had totally run out and couldn't figure out where they all were going.
I would love to connect with Seattle witches. I've been trying out Bumble BFF after realizing how many friends have moved away in the pandemic -- and everyone on BFF seems to want a puppy playdate or a hiking buddy (neither of which is my priority). I want witches to vent with. 🧹
Oops, that was a typo--Im too DENSE to find your email. Will you shoot me a note at clairezulkey@gmail if you'd like to be intro'd to other Seattle witches?
"My kids love screens and I don’t mind because I like to be left alone." Is possibly the most important thing I've ever heard a mother say in my entire 8-year history as a mother. Thanks to your genius friend.
I am going to see if I can get an interview with the pantry organizer so we can all learn something. I have been contemplating for years just posting a photo of my Tupperware etc drawer with the caption "help."
Loved this. I’m making notes on the chore thing. I am like the kids in the story: an older brother to a pair of twins. Summer chores used to be terrible in our house. Endless horse trading on a list we were given every day before my parents left for work, and we’d only be given pocket money if they were done.
Please do! I'm a mildly organized person, kitchen and everywhere else -- not obsessive about it by any means, but also not a total mess, just somewhere in the always-clean-but-also-a-little-disheveled middle, and I would be all over this.
Bravo Alissa Bravo!!! Nobel prize for parenting!!
I'm about two hours east of Raleigh, NC, but wouldn't mind being looped in with other central/eastern NC witches. (I'd also be down for a witchy Slack group!)
Allison, shoot me an email if you haven't already? thanks! clairezulkey @ gmail
At my house for a long time we had something called the Initiative Bin. Whenever I found their random crap laying around the house I would pick it up and put it in the Initiative Bin and when they wanted that thing back, they'd have to perform an act of initiative to get it back. Usually that just meant cleaning their room or the kitchen without being asked. I still cackle a little on the inside when I think of the time I had picked up so many of my daughter's socks and put them in the initiative bin that she was having to wear sneakers with no socks to school (which she hates) because she had totally run out and couldn't figure out where they all were going.
Hello! This is so smart. Initiative Bin > Passive Aggressive Piles (my specialty)
In London and would love to be put in touch with anyone in the UK, if there's anyone else around!
Thanks Samantha--let me see what I can do!
Samantha--will you please shoot me an email if you'd like me to try to put you in touch with witches off Substack? clairezulkey @ gmail
Great read. I laughed out loud multiple times. The cotton candy mishap description was on point!
I would love to connect with Seattle witches. I've been trying out Bumble BFF after realizing how many friends have moved away in the pandemic -- and everyone on BFF seems to want a puppy playdate or a hiking buddy (neither of which is my priority). I want witches to vent with. 🧹
I hear you! Haven't tried Bumble BFF but I'm in Portland (OR) and agree
There are other Portland OR witches (I made a typo--Portland WA??) Stand by!
Oops, that was a typo--Im too DENSE to find your email. Will you shoot me a note at clairezulkey@gmail if you'd like to be intro'd to other Seattle witches?
Thanks!
Amy, I am too tense to find your email address--shoot me an email at clairezulkey@ gmail and I'll add you to the Seattle list!
"My kids love screens and I don’t mind because I like to be left alone." Is possibly the most important thing I've ever heard a mother say in my entire 8-year history as a mother. Thanks to your genius friend.