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Room to Re-Arrange

May 1, 2012 By Dana White | 5 Comments

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“But I don’t have anywhere else to put it.”

That’s been my excuse for years.

As a child, I loved small spaces.  I would spend hours in the two-foot space behind my dad’s recliner, pretending it was my house.   I used blankets and pillows to create a home in my not-a-walk-in closet.

I’ve known for a very long time that the cabinet in the gameroom would make a perfect little play spot for someone who likes small spaces of her own.

But . . . it was very full of stuff. And the thought of moving all of that stuff overwhelmed me.  Especially since empty spaces for stuff-relocation were a rarity.

About a week ago, I tackled that cabinet and the cabinet above.  I ruthlessly purged, getting rid of most of what was in there.

So last week, when a certain someone’s brother discovered her latest hiding spot in the linen closet and proved that there wasn’t enough room for the both of them, I was able to solve the problem by moving the very small amount of stuff into another practically-empty cabinet.

And that . . . took all of about three minutes.

Go me!

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  1. Alana in Canada says

    May 2, 2012 at 9:54 am

    Yay Nony!

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  2. Mary Stephens says

    May 2, 2012 at 6:16 pm

    Awww. Sweet. 🙂 So happy for you too. It always feels good to be ahead of the game on something like that —- at last. 😉

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  3. Christy says

    May 3, 2012 at 11:20 am

    YES, GO YOU!!! 🙂

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  4. Jennifer says

    May 6, 2012 at 11:57 am

    LOVE LOVE LOVE this! I forgot – whenever we took a trip, the first thing my sister and I did was find a place to be our “house”! If we were camping, it was under some overhanging shrub; in a cabin, some nook or cranny. And now I have a space in our bedroom with my rocking chair (from the former nursery – kids are now teens!) that looks out a picture window.

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  5. Sonja Carroll says

    May 1, 2023 at 6:36 pm

    I used to put a blanket over the dining room table. It was rarely used. I set up a bed and took my books and favorite doll. My mom was wonderful and let me sleep there for a few nights. I wish we would have had spaces like that when my girls were little. My dad did build them a playhouse though (i also had one). Every kid needs a little space to call their own.

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