I have been wandering around my house lately, trying to find ways to make it more user friendly. We have moved furniture three times in the living room in the last couple of months, and I am mentally shuffling things around here in the computer room. I only do that mentally mind you because if I ever DO decide to move things, that would include this computer desk which is an old government surplus desk with a side piece that has a cabinet at the end of it... so it is an L shaped monster of enormous bulk and equally enormous weight. We don't move it anywhere without good reason.
Maybe it is the change of season. Knowing that I will be indoors more than usual and will have to look at this stuff up close and personal day in and day out. Maybe it is just plain restlessness. But I do know that I could use a change of perspective.
You know how things sort of disappear when you have had them in the same place for a long time? That's what has happened in here. This is supposed to be my creative place. But it is just a room with furniture lined up all around the perimeter. Too much furniture I am thinking.
A friend of mine was telling me the other day that she wanted to do some major scaling down of her possessions. She said that she felt like a lot of the things she had 'owned' a piece of her. They were calling to her. Like books on how to do upholstery, or books on decorating. Or leftover supplies bought for a project that is now complete. Too many chotches that were important at one time but now they are looking much more like clutter. She wants to divest herself of these burdensome things, so she can think in new directions.
I think she is onto something.
You know, the Salvation Army store is only a few miles from here.....
They have this nice man at the back entrance who will gladly accept almost anything you might like to give him.
I think I might have to pay him a visit.
Maybe it is the change of season. Knowing that I will be indoors more than usual and will have to look at this stuff up close and personal day in and day out. Maybe it is just plain restlessness. But I do know that I could use a change of perspective.
You know how things sort of disappear when you have had them in the same place for a long time? That's what has happened in here. This is supposed to be my creative place. But it is just a room with furniture lined up all around the perimeter. Too much furniture I am thinking.
A friend of mine was telling me the other day that she wanted to do some major scaling down of her possessions. She said that she felt like a lot of the things she had 'owned' a piece of her. They were calling to her. Like books on how to do upholstery, or books on decorating. Or leftover supplies bought for a project that is now complete. Too many chotches that were important at one time but now they are looking much more like clutter. She wants to divest herself of these burdensome things, so she can think in new directions.
I think she is onto something.
You know, the Salvation Army store is only a few miles from here.....
They have this nice man at the back entrance who will gladly accept almost anything you might like to give him.
I think I might have to pay him a visit.