Need to know why this picture makes me joyful?
These items do not belong in there.
And but . . . they match.
Life occurred and we wanted new flooring. Getting new flooring meant shifting my china cupboard. Transferring my china cupboard meant getting my china out of it.
Final summer season, I used to be leaving the nation on the time when the primary flooring had been going to be put in, so I wasn’t going to be there to supervise china-cupboard-shifting. I most likely wouldn’t have risked shifting it with the china inside anyway, however I positively wasn’t going to threat different folks shifting it with out my supervision.
I mixed my on a regular basis dishes into two mismatched stacks, and moved my fancy stuff into these secure, unmovable cupboards.
And that was it.
I didn’t have to field something up.
And when that room ended up being the final one to be re-floored in an extended drawwwwnnnn out course of, we had been simply high-quality with the non permanent state of affairs.
All that doesn’t make a really thrilling story. BUT, if the place I used to be years in the past, why I used to be so excited.
I as soon as had cupboards stuffed filled with on a regular basis dishes. And counters piled with soiled dishes. On the identical time.
And if, again then, I used to be on this identical state of affairs (if . . . since I might keep away from this ground-changing state of affairs), I might not have had a spot for my fancy stuff.
I might have moved the plates and cups and gravy boats round or stacked them on the counter and thought imply ideas concerning the dishes and myself each time I had to transfer them. Or I might have had to shove them someplace the place one or three or seven would seemingly have damaged.
So I celebrated. In my coronary heart, and now within the presence of the Web.
Having room to do what I wanted to do after I wanted to do it in a means that saved the whole lot secure and everybody sane was a really large deal.
For reference, right here’s a photograph of all the stuff I moved out of the china cupboard and positioned in my kitchen cupboards.
I’m happy with me and jazzed about all of the decluttering I’ve accomplished and the way it makes life simpler.
Go me.
–Nony
