Location, location, location
AKA Attitude and Perspective adjustment!
I use a LOT of paper towels.
In an effort to use less paper towels, I bought flour sack towels (cloth).
About 2 years ago.
I’ve since added more of the flour sack towels and also some “bar” towels.
I’m using less paper towels but I do have to wash (pump water, run washer/dryer) the cloth towels.
I am unsure if the exchange of paper making/landfill space taking is negated by the washing/drying/manufacture of cloth towels.
But I proceed.
And for some time I grumbled about the washing/drying/folding part. Particularly the folding part.
And then!!!
One morning I grabbed the dry cloth towels, dumped them on a clean-ish counter top in front of a window and folded there.
It was an awakening… an ah-ha moment.
Folding towels, and looking out my kitchen window … a kind of blissful time, a restful, peaceful time.
And so, it happens that the task of washing/drying/FOLDING towels becomes something/some time to be looked forward to.
I am sure there is a lesson here.
Maybe, just maybe … those tasks, those things in life … those things that we dislike and/or dread … can be made pleasant … by a change in location or a change in attitude or a change in perspective.
3 Responses to “Location, location, location”
I like the idea of the cloth towels. I may give it a try.
Great insight Liz! It is easy to become trapped in unhelpful thoughts and patterns. What better key to unlock the trap than a good dose of nature? Bear, Auggie and the chairs figured it out long ago :)
Steph,
I’ve found there are variations in what is called “flour-sack towels”. My first batch I bought at Walmart and they are very soft and absorbent. 2nd batch from Amazon and they are less soft and absorbent but good for countertop and ESPECIALLY good for touch screens!! I bought some more towels from Williams-Sonoma both “flour-sack” and bar towels. The bar towels are very absorbent – kind of like thin wash cloth kind of material. No complaints about W-S “flour-sack” towels either. Overall, the variety works for me. I also bought several “mini” laundry basket kind of things at my grocery and I have those on a shelf above my washer. I put the towels that are ready for a wash in those little baskets. When I’m down to 3 or 4 clean towels I do a load (medium for my washer). It is a system that has evolved partly based on what I’ve read elsewhere about what the “green” folks do :) and what works for me.
Yes to a good does of nature! Just to prepare … I might have a sad post about the chairs… they are both cracked and unsafe to sit on. I have agonized over what to do but I’m a bit afraid that they have to be replaced. However, in writing this, it occurred to me that I could put them in a nice spot in the woods … not to be sat on, but to enjoy shade and a kind of chair retirement!
Thanks for the towel info–it’s really helpful to know!
Like many things in life, I was in denial about the chairs impermanence, but I sure do like the idea of a retirement area for them! I’ve enjoyed seeing them out in your beautiful wooded land, and if they were able to speak, I imagine they would say they have had the best life a chair could have.
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