#furniture declutter

On the topic of tables, today I surprised myself by removing anonther one from our home. It was a bedside table with wheels - the sort used for the comfort of bedridden people - but over time it became less and less suited to our life. Furniture didn't have a high enough space to tuck the rolling legs underneath, the table started to droop a bit to one side, and now Son was starting to climb on it (and he did nearly topple the thing on himself once). I was a bit sad to see it go, but again, we have folding tables now that we didn't have when we bought it.

I left it outside; maybe one of the neighbors will find use for it.

Last night the stools we've had in our living room for ten years became too worn out to support us, and so we tossed them out. Straight into the trash, so nobody would try to sit on them and risk injury. My initial instinct was to look for replacements, but then I realized we had more folding stools lying around in a drawer, so we could bring them out for now. This morning, my partner's belt buckle broke just as he was ready to get to work. He only had one belt, but I had two and he had lost a lot of weight recently, so I offered him one of mine. He can keep it, or use it temporarily until he finds a new belt/buckle for himself, I don't care either way.

Another thing we threw out recently was a table we had kept around with the plan to "eventually" put new legs on it. It only took us a few months to realize it wasn't going to happen and that we already had two folding tables in storage and ready to be used as needed.

I must say, having folding furniture that you can set up and put away as needed is a blessing in a small apartment!

Now to find the motivation to look under the beds for all the toys Son poofed out of existence.

After the last gathering we held at our place, I realized we have no need to buy disposable utensils again. Why is that? Well, I finally went through all the things in the "camping supplies" drawer and discovered we have 2 'picnic sets' (reusable plastic utensils). The sets together serve 12. Real d'oh moment, but this is definitely a 'better late than never' kind of deal.

And today, an unexpected thing happened; the kneeling chair broke. Although I had originally bought it for myself, my partner ended up using it a lot more, so I asked him if he wanted to replace it, and he said - "no need. Hand me one of the folding chairs instead." (We host a lot, so we have 6 folding chairs and 4 stools lying around.) This happened only a few days after I let go of my gaming chair with its broken pneumatics, and I too decided the folding chairs were a good enough replacement.

I also got a new toilet cleaning brush and oven mitts to replace worn-out equipment. Tidied the bathroom while i was at it. Came across the plunger. I forgot we had a plunger (but rest assured that my handy partner didn't forget).

Still struggling with redundant cosmetics, but I think it's less of a struggle than it used to be. I'm better at choosing products that are useful, but more importantly, I'm getting better at not buying new things to solve imaginary problems with my grooming routine.