If your wife or mother or mother-in-law are like mine then they all share this strange belief that TV remote controls are hideous looking devices that should be kept hidden from plain view at all times. I say that is weird.

My mom hides them in the couch end table drawer. My mom-in-law hides them in a little wicker basket next to pops chair. And my wife tries to get me to put ours away in this black box on our end table. It drives me nuts!

For starters, why hide the remotes at all when your just going to turn around and dig them back out everyday? Of course I have made the same argument for why we don’t need to make the bed every morning - we’re just going to ‘unmake’ it again at night. But, I digress…

My second beef to pick is IF we are going to be forced/guilted/coerced into hiding our remote controls PLEASE please please don’t make it overly difficult to get to the hiding spot. As you can see from the picture above - getting to our remote control hiding place is almost always booby trapped with an assortment of decor trinkets.

And Kristin wonders why I never put the TV remotes back in their storage spot?!