TRAYS - PUT YOUR MONEY IN TRAYS!

You gotta love a good tray!

I have several trays.  I just love trays!  I have small ones and big ones and cute ones and some are color coordinated!  You can carry stuff all over your house if you have a good tray!  How impressed are your guests if you say to them…”I’ll be right back…I’m going to bring us a little treat!”  Then…moments later when you walk into the room carrying a tray…you know they are thinking something wonderful is coming their way because it’s being brought to you on a TRAY!  Right?  They are thinking éclairs, Neapolitans, ice cream, sorbet, chocolate dipped strawberries!  Even when you set that tray down and they see it’s just a bag of Doritos sitting on it, they will still think…”Wow! Impressive presentation!”  I’m telling you…a tray changes everything! 

I have trays on top of all my end tables…Why?  Because you can spill anything on a tray and just carry the spilt debris off to your kitchen sink and wipe it off and you will be good to go again!  If your end tables are already full of rings, burns and fingernail polish…PUT A NEW TRAY ON TOP OF IT!  Friends will say…”WOW COOL TRAY!”… They will no longer notice the travesty of a coffee table top you have been living with.

Granted, if you have pets, if the cat jumps up on the tray…well sometimes there’s a hysterical tip-over (Random laugh-out-loud moments in your day are good for the soul!) and if you have a dog and its tail connects with a featured tray full of stuff…again…could be iffy.  I just tape notes to the trays on my tables for any visiting animals …”Please be kind and do not connect these trays with your paws, tail or behind.” Pets don’t come to my apartment to visit so the signs are working out well and make good conversations starters if I have dull people visiting.  If I had a pet lizard I’d carry him around the house like royalty on a tray that matched its lizard skin.

Hate putting away the groceries?  Does your live-in companion feel like it’s YOUR job to put away the groceries? Wanna yank their chain?  Here’s what you do… next time you go grocery shopping with your friend…bring the bags into the house and set them down just by the door you just came through.  Then… go get your favorite tray (the one with the high sides) and bring it to where you have set down the bags.  Set the tray on the floor and pile one or two of your purchases onto the tray.  Now pick the tray up and carry it regally into the kitchen and set it down. (Make sure they are watching you.)  Put away the couple things you have on the tray.  Then…go back to the hallway and put a couple more items of purchased stuff on the tray and again…carry it proudly into the kitchen and put it away!  Do this a couple more times and as you are carefully putting away the couple things on your tray, at this point your friend/lover/companion/spouse SHOULD say…”OH FOR THE LOVE OF GOD … ARE YOU KIDDING ME?  HERE…LET ME DO IT!”

When this happens, you go into your pantry and put your beverage of choice on maybe a pretty floral tray along with a bar of chocolate and carry it out to the porch and plop it down on your chaise lounge, along with your butt!  Lift your beverage up and offer a silent toast to your favorite tray! 

I don’t now about you but I get a special lift when I hear people whispering when I walk by…”There’s that whack job tray lady!”  I just smile at them and whip out my fully collapsible tray and set it on the sidewalk and then start tap-dancing on it!

I think the whole world could be changed with the use of trays!  Why just the other day I had my car repaired at a car maintenance shop…just think about how much lighter the atmosphere in an auto repair shop would be if the maintenance guys brought replacement car part tools and oil changing gizmos to each other on festive fiesta ware colored trays!  

I took this photo. Drop in the bucket of my assortment of trays. I have to go now. There’s just so much to talk about and quirky photos I have taken to look at…but unfortunately, like I said, I have to go now…I have to go rent a nail gun…I wonder how many different sizes and colors and patterns of trays it will take to cover every single wall in my apartment!  It doesn’t specifically SAY in an apartment LEASE that you CAN’T nail trays to the wall!  Right?

Jeanasina