Order under the sink

It's the middle of the night and your child has an accident in their bed (my children would want me to clarify this has not happened in few years). You wake your husband to help you change your child and their bedding. You go into the bathroom (or wherever you keep your extra kid's bedding) and try to find a new set of matching sheets in your sleepy stupor. There is much weeping and gnashing of teeth as you try to find the fitted sheet. By the time every sheet is pulled out and you don't even care anymore if you find a fitted sheet, you find it.

This scenario has happened to me with my own bed, only there was no bedwetting accident. There was weeping and gnashing of teeth though.

Pinterest to the rescue.

There is not before picture because in my frustration of jamming everything under the kid's sink, trying to keep cabinet doors closed, and then pulling everything out, there was no thought of taking a "before" picture.

I took out all my kid's sheets. Matched the fitted with the flat. Folded them nicely. Put the fitted sheet, the flat sheet and any spare pillowcases into a matching pillowcase and folded the pillowcase. The sheets stack nicely upon each other. There is not more worrying about where the matching sheets are or 6,000 sheets falling over when you find a match underneath all the others.

Here's my "after" picture:
I did this with my sheets too and the officer even comment on how nice it was to not have to search under the cabinet for the right sheets. Trust me the officer doesn't notice things like this so I know it made a difference.

That's my household tip from Pinterest for the day!

P.S. To stop having to make the bed in the middle of the night when there was a bedwetting accident, we made our kids bed twice. We would put down a water proof mat, then a fitted sheet, another waterproof mat and then another fitted sheet. If there was an accident in the middle of the night you pull off the top layer of wet sheet and mat and "viola" their bed is ready. Throw the sheet/mat in the washer to wash the next morning and you're done. Oh yeah, someone will have to change the kid.