I have a love/hate thing with the
whole hidden-in-plain-sight concept.
On the home front, I love the
hidden-away idea because I don’t like visual clutter.
But I hate it when a
hidden object becomes a lost object.
So I am undecided on this
organization tip I just read about. The tip is this: use a bread box as a charging
station for your cell phones/i-pads/kindles etc.
Close the lid and voila! you have
gizmos charging but not cluttering your kitchen.
In theory, this sounds great.
In practice, I wonder how it will work.
Especially for man-lookers. Not
that any of those live at my house.
(Man-looker = an individual
challenged in finding household items, even those directly in front of eyes.
Can be identified by distinctive cry that begins,”Have you seen my…” Gender:
either. Age: any.)
I think the breadbox charging station
would cause less visual clutter at my house but more nervous breakdowns for the
man-lookers unable to find their gadgets.
It’s a trade off. Is it worth it?
I guess it depends how
desperately you want to hide said items. Are you Ryan Gosling/Eva Mendes
let’s-hide-a-pregnancy-for-6-months desperate?
Or do you take a more
confounding approach, a la actress Zoe Saldana, who appeared preggers on the
red carpet but refused to confirm. This drove the talking heads to speculate:
is Saldana expecting a real baby or suffering from a burrito baby?
Personally, I find burrito baby
musings distasteful. Almost as distasteful as kitchen clutter! But to each
their own.
Conquer that clutter any way that
works for you, guru girls & guys (but not by shoving it temporarily in the
oven, a decision that shows poorer judgement than those of us who spend minutes
of our lives opining about burrito babies.)
