I Have 3, I Need 5 More

Dale and I bought our house over 5 years ago and when we first moved in, we decided one of the first projects we'd tackle would be the upstairs bathroom. Since I have a very hard working, creative, and motivated husband, he drew up a design (with my input here and there) and the project was underway in no time. I know some women have to beg their husbands to do things around the house, and some husbands will start projects and never finish them, but mine is just the opposite to the extreme. One Friday night during the remodel I got up in the middle of the night and found him working away. "Are you gonna come to bed? It's 5:30 in the morning."

When you walk into the bathroom, to the immediate right is a series of shelves which had been a small linen closet with a laundry chute at the bottom. When we remodeled, we decided to not have doors but instead just open shelves, which sounded like a good idea at the time. I pictured pretty folded towels and plants and other things to make it beautiful.

Then we had kids.

Since that is the bathroom closest to their bedroom, it has officially become their bathroom. The open shelves of pretty towels and decor slowly evolved into a hodge-podge of bright cartoon towels, baby wipes, bath toys, Tinkerbell bath soap for Bella, Thomas the Train bath soap for Rowan, etc. Through time I have grown to hate how cluttered and obnoxious it looks.

So a few weeks ago I was wandering around Target in West Olympia when I spotted these baskets that I knew would be just perfect for the bathroom. They were exactly what I needed to make the shelves look organized and concise. But they only had 2. No biggie, I thought. I bought them, and then headed across town to the Lacey Target to (so I thought) get the rest. When I got there, they only had one. So I bought it. Then I thought...no biggie, I'll just go to Target online and get the rest. So I did, and I could not find them on the website. Once again, I thought, no biggie, I'll just order them through the store.

A few days after that, I went back to Target with the tag from one of the baskets to have the customer service lady order 5 more baskets for me, and I told her how I hadn't been able to find enough of them in the stores and couldn't find them at all online. So she scanned the tag and was like "Oh, no wonder you couldn't find them! Looks like they've been discontinued."

Great. Now my shelves look slightly better, but I still feel back at square one!


I need a wider angle lens for these shots!