"Towels On The Floor" Solution!

When we first moved into our house (can't believe that was 6 years ago!) we gutted everything.  One thing to go was every fixture in the house.  In the bathroom, that meant towel racks and sinks and flooring.  Well, we never replaced the towel racks.  I had grown accustom to throwing the towels over the shower doors.  Here the problem.  My kids couldn't ever do that.  They'd try, sometimes, but most of the time towels littered the floor.

Last week after I had finished a sewing session, I laid in bed trying to think of a solution to our "towels on the floor" problem.  I decided the next day I'd go on a hunt for a towel rack.  But my mind kept processing that thought, and I didn't want to waste the money on a new rack if the kids wouldn't even use it!  So I was trying to come up with a fool proof way that was guaranteed to work.  And then it hit me.  Button holes.  Yes!  I'd sew button holes on my towels, and he kids would know how to exactly hang their towels.

I found a cute rack at TJ Maxx for $20.  It was a little more than I was wanting to spend but I had no luck at the first few stores I had tried before.  We finished our shopping at nap time and as soon as the kids laid down, I hung the rack.  Next I got out my sewing machine and started sewing red button holes (I wanted them to be easy to spot) on my white towels.  [I folded the towel in half lengthwise, determined the center, and let my machine sew the button hole. Easy peasy ]   

I showed the kids the new towel hanging system and they thought it was so cool.  I'm happy to report that in the last week, there's not been a towel left on the floor!  They've been so excited to hang them perfectly all by themselves and I've been so excited to have a towel-less bathroom floor!