The Grouchiest Task of All - Laundry!

Hey All,

What do you think of the new laundry hamper?

I'm pretty excited over this!

The other week when I was looking through the linky parties I saw that Danita over at Delightful Order
had been helping her sister organize her sisters sons' room. She had a heap of great ideas, so of course I pinned it, so I could steal borrow some of them when I get to my boys room. One of her ideas, was using a trash can as a laundry hamper. All of a sudden the brain starts ticking, Oscar the Grouch lives in a trash can.

So I started looking for trash cans, but all of them were too big for the babies room. I thought I was going to have to skip it, when I walked into the Reject Shop (similar to the dollar store) and found an Oscar colored green trash can. Last one left and right up the top shelf.

I was so excited I ran around the shop, looking for an available teenager (notice they only hire teens???) to drag away from their usual conversation, you know, "OMG are you going to Joe's party?" as they give you a filthy look for interrupting their conversation. Oh yes people, I hate bad service more than anything!

Anyway, I made her drag the ladder out and get the last can, I literally hugged it all the way to the car.

Grabbed my supplies:

Embarrassingly enough I didn't photograph anything but the bin, because I was so over excited, doh!

Cut the face, as per my draws and stuck it on

Samuel (no.1 son) offered to kick it around so it looked dirty and dented, like Oscar's, I offered to do the same to him if he touched it!

So this was what I was using

Even though it had Elmo on it, it is so flimsy that it often fell over, or Madeleine empties it to put it over her head.

Now I have a sturdy laundry hamper, and I love it. Laundry is making me slightly less grouchy..come on, I had to say it!

DIY Delight or Disaster? Why of course, DELIGHT!!!!!!!!

Now I've just previewed my post to discover, I never took the tag off the bin, told you I was excited!

What do you think?

Mel xo