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So, I set out this morning to take “honest” pictures throughout my house to upload to the Honest Photography group Jessica started yesterday.

I had already uploaded my pic I took of the contents under the bathroom sink (thanks to all who participated – please keep ‘em coming), but she had gone a step further, walking about her home and snapping off pics.

So, I started walking and taking pics. Then I uploaded them. Then I realized they weren’t so bad, in fact, my house looked pretty decent on camera. And that’s the honest, untouched, truth.

So here’s the question – just because my house wasn’t a wreck, should I still upload the pictures to the group? I mean, it is HONEST, right? Would it help if I talked about my sticky kitchen floor, the pink mold in the shower, the ring around the toilet or the mud smears on the tile by the back door? Will people throw cyber tomatos at me?

Added note: I’ve had a couple of emails and a flickr comment regarding my folded sheets. Seriously, it isn’t hard. So everyone knows just how easy it can be, I have provided a link to Martha Stewart’s “How to Fold a Fitted Sheet” tutorial, complete with pictures. HOWEVER, that said, I should tell you that even though MS thinks she’s coined the whole household decor and care gig, I learned this way back in the day … before her prison time and when I was about 6. MY MOM taught me. I’m pretty sure this wasn’t all MS’s idea.

OH! And speaking of sheets, I need your help. I had a request to check out this answer to folding and storing sheets. The request was for me to post it on my shopping blog if I liked the idea. Jeff and I have watched the video about three times and we have our opinion, but I want yours. What do you think and why? Does this interest you?

Here is your challenge. OPEN the doors of your bathroom cabinet (or cabinets, as the case may be) and take a picture. YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED to move anything out or put anything in. Don’t straighten anything. Don’t tidy up. If a product is backwards, leave it there – if it is tilted, keep it tilted (that was already covered with “Don’t straighten anything”, but just in case you weren’t paying attention).

It may be a mess – maybe not.

This is based on the honor system.

Upload to Flickr (or to your personal server pocket in the sky and send me the direct link or blog link). I’ll link to everyone’s or hey, maybe we’ll start a Flickr group. WHY THE HECK NOT?!

Oh, and if on Flickr – tag it “what’s under your bathroom sink” and make special notes to all of us bathroom cabinet voyeurs to read. Click thru on mine for an example.

This post was inspired by Danny Seo’s Medicine Cabinet. Which, in my opinion, WAS straightened, but nonetheless is way cool and made me look at glass tumblers differently.

About 3 or 4 miles from where we live stews a controversy that likely could have been prevented by better zoning practices (which small towns tend to be horrible at assigning).

Not being one to traverse down the back streets in the not-so-friendly parts of our town … I had missed this street entirely. I’m not even sure how Jeff happened upon it (I think a shortcut off the feeder?), but he took me back there to see what I can only describe as a very ineffective means to express one’s complaints. And at the same time, it gave me an eerie feeling … like I just found a voodoo doll with my name on it stuck full of pins.

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