my materialistic little plan for harmony and happiness
See, what I want to eventually do (like within a year) is replace all the crappy stuff in my house with good stuff. Bit by bit, until my house (okay – apartment) rules.
Action plan:
1. Replace couch.
I got this old, super synthetic blue couch from this pregnant woman I worked for two insurance companies ago. I suspected it had been flood damaged because of the way she kept pressuring me to take it off her hands. But then my cousins and I finally hauled a pick-up truck to her house and took it away with us, and the pregnant woman gave me two coffee tables, too. The coffee tables are nice. I’ll keep those for a while.
I would like to replace this scratchy blue free couch with a nice soft neutral colored one from IKEA. I will give the blue one to someone who needs free furniture real bad.
2. Replace kitchen trash can.
I already replaced it once. The old one was a $7 job from MacFrugal’s. Now we have a $22 white Target can with spring-loaded lid.
I don’t know what I want yet. The stainless steel ones are too shiny. I wish they made invisible trash cans. That would be bad ass.
3. Replace cosmetics container.
Because I’m too old to have a big-ass Hello Kitty hat box on my bathroom counter anymore. Well, okay, no I’m not, but that thing was getting dirty. I put it in the Goodwill bag and now all my makeup is sitting on the counter, looking a little scared.
4. Replace clothes hamper.
Buy a nice pretty clothes hamper, probably from IKEA, to replace the current hamper, a/k/a the space under the little coffee table, a/k/a my bedroom floor.
5. Replace blanket.
I would like to get rid of the holy, light purple thermal blanket that currently serves as my bedspread. Actually, no, I won’t get rid of it because I never throw out blankets, even though I’m really good about throwing out everything else. You have to keep old blankets because you always need them for the beach or camping or picnics or some crap. Okay, well, only for the beach then. I’m not gonna lie and pretend I do that other stuff.
I wanted the Bella Wisteria bed set from Target, but they ran out of full size bedskirts the day I finally went over there with money to buy it all. I could order it online, but I figure that if God had really wanted me to purchase that set, he would have put it, in its entirety, on clearance at the Target on San Felipe. So now I know that God wants me to have something else. Something that’s not at Linens ‘N’ Things or Bed, Bath & Beyond. Something that’s not at IKEA or Kohl’s. Nothing from Marshall’s, Ross, or TJ Maxx.
I await Thy heavenly guidance, Father. As far as comforter sets are concerned, I am a vessel for Thy will.
