BLEACH

So I’m most familiar with bleach in my hair at the salon as I achieve that white out blonde. But this past week I experienced bleach on a whole new level, and let me tell you… bleach and I are not friends. So as many of you following my journey of marriage would know, I am learning to live in 650 SQFT of space. I could probably fill a 600 SQFT closet with my clothes (not a brag, I actually wish I didn’t have this issue haha! WORKING ON IT). So, it’s a challenge. And God bless my husbands patience with my clothing collection.

ANYWAY back to bleach.

So I was organizing the laundry room to be a quasi laundry room, closet. I found the perfect home for my husbands baseball bag, and that’s on top of the stacked washer and dryer. Half of the top is washing products and the other half was empty. So up went the bag. But there was something at the back of the top of the dryer that I couldn’t see. And that was the bottle of bleach that my husband uses to keep his white shirts as white as possible (OCD.)… and all I heard was “glug, glug, glug…” Full bottle of bleach spilled in a very confined closet space BEHIND the stacked washer and dryer. UGH.

Not only did this create an impossible stench of a smell, but it was behind tow heavy objects making it hard to clean. And let me tell you, cleaning up a bottle of spilt bleach is hard on the eyes, nose and lungs. As I was cleaning it up I realized that it had spilt on many a clothing item that I had just organized in my quasi-laundry room closet.

When relaying this story to my husband his response was, “God answered my prayers! How man bags of clothes did we get rid off?!”

So other than sharing a humorous learning lesson on avoiding knocking over bottles of bleach… There’s another illustration to my story.

It is CRAZY the affect that bleach has on ANYTHING that it touches. It is powerful and it leaves it’s mark. There was an H&M bag back there and the red logo colour was completely wiped out. And then a pair of new grey sweats now are tie dyed with white speckles, but I’m going to rock it!

It got me thinking, the way we make people feel has a powerful affect on their day to day. Let’s wipe out negativity, self-doubt, stress and anxiety through our interactions with people, and let’s add a surprise splatter of love, faith, hope, comfort, encouragement and positive intentions.

Let’s get out there and bleach the world with love & kindness.

I can still smell the bleach days later, let them smell the love and kindness, days later.

Ash XOXO