Sprucing Up

I've done a fair bit of sprucing up my apartment this year and I think it's mainly due to being stuck at home so much and unable to follow my main vice of going to the casino.  For whatever reason, sprucing up is quite pleasurable.

I had new window blinds installed in the bedrooms, new drapes in my bedroom, a new t.v. and stand, and now a new area rug for the livingroom...pale turquoise and I love it!  Oh yes, I also bought 2 new pots and 1 frying pan...love them all, especially the turquoise pots!

I'm not a big spender so none of these items were high end, much closer to low, low end but it doesn't matter.  They're a nice change and please my eye.  You don't need to spend a lot of money to make a change that pleases you.  Sometimes it might only be the addition of a new plant.

When you get to my age and have moved from a house to an apartment, you really need very little new stuff.  You mostly need to pare down what you do have and I did that well when I moved but continue to do it, too.  It's shameful how much "stuff" we accumulate over the years and how much of it we don't even use.  I've gotten more ruthless about getting rid of what I've considered my treasures, either giving them to family, selling them on Marketplace, or taking them down to our back door as donations to anyone who can use them.  It hurts sometimes to find out your treasures are not even wanted by anyone for free. 

There is a time and a place for everything but, once that time has passed and won't return, we should downsize and not look back.