If you are a gardener like me and you want to extend the season, old sheets and blankets are a necessity.  You can also use the sheets when you paint ceilings like I still have on my frog list.  So what do you do with them when not in use?

I have got to be honest with you, when it comes to the harvesting part of gardening, I haven’t fallen in love with it just yet.  When the vegetables are ready, they are ready and don’t have much consideration for anything else.  But oh is it so worth it when you are eating those vegetables in the dead of winter.

To me, it looks like lots of clutter and I have been on a decluttering way of life since 2005 when I found Flylady.  She is a big believer that you cannot organize clutter.

I have to look at those old sheets and blankets not as clutter.  They sure look like it when laying around.  It is kind of like having laundry laying around waiting to be put away.

Now, back to those old sheets and blankets you have to keep.  Where the heck are you going to keep them when not in use?  I was talking to a flysister about having these sheets and blankets in a pile that I have to continually look at that I was not looking forward to.  She suggested to fold them up and put them under the bed.

This is a great idea as I have NOTHING under my bed and have been very proud of that.  Then I remembered I got on a kick of buying those bags that you can store off season clothes in and use the vacuum to take the air out of and create more space.  Well I have this one I bought and to this day couldn’t figure out why I would ever want a bag this big until today.

I took my flysister’s advice and folded the sheets and blankets up because warmer weather is on the way.  I was able to find this storage bag from a recent session of decluttering.  I rounded them all up and put in the bag.  Then I got my vacuum to use to take all of the air out of it so it was thin enough to place under my bed and sealed at that!

I put all the old sheets and blankets in one of those big ziplock bags I bought a long time ago.

Put them in this giant bag, got my vacuum and took out all the air so it was thin enough to put under my bed!

Now, I wonder where I got the idea of using this bag???  Could it be that I am borrowing my mom’s seal-a-matic for my two heads of cabbage that I will slice up and vacuum seal!!  Amazing when one is not so overwhelmed with clutter, it allows you to come up with solutions and it’s really great when it happens with the help of a flysister!  Thank you Karen!
Keep FLYing!
Marilyn