Literally EVERYWHERE
If a house has bobby pins, hair pins, and hair elastics in unexpected places, it MIGHT belong to a dancer! Even after all of these years, I’m still amazed by the random places I find discarded bobby and hair pins. Of course, there are the usual suspects (the floor, random drawers, etc.). There are slightly more surprising places (in between couch cushions, the driveway, bathroom sinks, medicine cabinets, closet floors, etc.). But some of the locations in which I have found them have left me absolutely gobsmacked. Imagine my surprise when I came across one in the bread box, a few in the backyard (this was before the virtual recital), my bed (my girls NEVER sleep in my bed), in the bin where we keep old DVD’s (which was in the basement and had a cover on it); there was even one in the dog’s crate (I don’t even want to KNOW how it got in there).
Occasionally, my family spends the night at my friend’s house (he lives closer to New York City, as well as some of our competition venues, than we do). Several days after we left, he will tell me of all the places he found some errant hair pins (under rugs and couches, under the bathroom sink, and wrapped within blankets). I make the usual apologies; since he has no daughters of his own, it took him a while to get used to “girl things” strewn about his house. But the volume of hair and bobby pins we leave behind in his house is nothing compared to what can be found in ours.
And now that we’ve set up a dance space in our basement, the pins have begun to migrate down there. I don’t vacuum the basement nearly as much as I do to the main floors, so I put my foot down with my girls about leaving them down there. But I have realistic expectations, so I’ve pretty much accepted that I’ll have to do a run-through every now and again.
I swear, the person that invents a Roomba capable of finding and picking up hair and bobby pins stands to make a fortune.
Work hard, have fun! – Danielle
