Many thanks to a reader who encouraged me to remind Eileen that wire hangers are a no-no. In my recent post “How Many Hangers Do You Need in a College Dorm Room?” Scout and I purchased every imaginable kind of hanger only to find out from Eileen that wire hangers from the dry cleaners would do just fine.
I do try to avoid any comparisons between my skills as a mother and those of Joan Crawford in Mommie Dearest, but in this case, I can’t resist.
No… wire… hangers. What’s wire hangers doing in this closet when I told you: no wire hangers EVER? I work and work ’till I’m half-dead, and I hear people saying, “She’s getting old.” And what do I get? A daughter… who cares as much about the beautiful dresses I give her… as she cares about me. What’s wire hangers doing in this closet? Answer me. I buy you beautiful dresses, and you treat them like they were some dishrag. You do. Three hundred dollar dress on a wire hanger. We’ll see how many you’ve got if they’re hidden somewhere. We’ll see… we’ll see. Get out of that bed. All of this is coming out. Out. Out. Out. Out. Out. Out. You’ve got any more? We’re gonna see how many wire hangers you’ve got in your closet. Wire hangers, why? Why? Christina, get out of that bed. Get out of that bed. You live in the most beautiful house in Brentwood and you don’t care if your clothes are stretched out from wire hangers. And your room looks like some two-dollar-a-week furnished room in some two-bit back street town in Okalahoma. Get up. Get up. Clean up this mess.. No wire hangers, ever!
Of course, one look in Scout’s room and you would wonder why she needed hangers at all. My own mother (no comparisons with Mommie Dearest here) sent me a cartoon recently showing a teenager who had moved her bed into her closet and was using her bedroom floor as the closet. Scout thought this was brilliant.
Have I mentioned how small that dorm room is going to seem? T minus 11.
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