We order a lovely Christmas wreath every year from the Boy Scouts. It was delivered this weekend, and I always hang it on our side door. This year, we had just painted the door, so the hook that I had used last year had been removed and I needed to apply a new hook.
No problem.
I used one of these stick on deals. They apply easily and don't damage the paint, which will make my husband happy, since he is the one who painted the door to begin with.
First you have to swab the area with alcohol and let it dry. I had to go upstairs and get the rubbing alcohol. I wanted to use a paper towel, but the kitchen roll was empty, so I went down to the basement to get a new roll and saw this.
An appalling pile of laundry. I have been doing 5 loads a day for a week - and it still looks like this. The boys went camping (lots of smokey smelling clothes and long underwear), we went to Florida over Thanksgiving (bathing suits and tennis clothes), and the dog had a couple of baths (TOWELS).
So I threw in another load, and then went up with the paper towels. On the stairs up I saw this --
Then you have to wait, a full hour, before you can use it. During the time I: did 2 more loads of laundry, dragged piles of clean laundry upstairs to leave them on the beds, went through 3 days of mail, paid the utility bill, packed up a birthday present for shipping, unloaded the dishwasher, talked to my mother on the phone, ate dinner, cleaned up dinner and then ---
OOPS, that was way more than an hour. Just as I was getting ready for bed, I remembered, I can hang the wreath!
But it was dark out by then and I could barely see the stupid hook. So I hung the wreath first thing the next morning.
Holiday decorating is so easy!
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