I Need Soap on a Rope November 7
When you live or retire in Mexico, I hope for your sake that you can build your own house. The inconveniences of our little cottage we are renting are getting me down. Our bathroom has no cupboards and had no shelves until my husband devised two little triangle corner shelves. The sink is lower than U.S. standard height and it’s literally hanging off of the wall, making a permanent puddle in the front of it. The soap slides off of the little soap divots in the rim of the sink and we have to make it stick in there by jamming a bottle cap on the bottom of it or squishing it onto a suction cup stolen from our son’s baby bowl set.
Our son can now reach the puddle in the sink and the lower of the two tiny shelves. He can even reach the window sill by climbing on the toilette. There is no safe place for my stuff! He’s broken my glasses twice! He’s lost my contact lens disinfection container. I’m afraid he’ll get some chemical in his eye. The lid to the gel is on so tight I have to have my hands dry to open it. I’ve had to put the Q-tips in the top drawer of the dresser in an effort to protect his tiny ear drums.
I was handling this all pretty well until he started to get into the soap. He squishes it in his fingers and then I have to wash his hands, which gets him wet — which is bad because it’s so cold in our house I have to change is clothes…. I’m going nuts. I was trying to figure out how to stick my soap to the wall above the sink. I need soap on a rope.
That’s funny. What to Pack When You Move to Mexico: Item number 245: soap on a rope.