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new specialty one-off: bohemian home |
It was a landmark day! Friday I made my monthly trip
to B&N to checkout the new magazines. As the dazzling global, eclectic home
tours and editorials were flashing before my eyes, an idea occurred to me:
don’t buy these, go home and buy digital copies from Zinio. And, save for one
title, that is what I did. And, for once, it’s a relief to forego the physical
magazine in favor of digital. Reason being, I’m currently digging my way out
from under a massive stockpile of magazines. That’s right. I’m that lady who
brings ‘em in every month, but rarely takes any back out. Just politely stacks
them in corners and under furniture until there’s no more out-of-sight space to
conceal them.
That’s what finally gave me the will to start putting my old magazines to
the curb…where they belong.
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what was behind a chair: four huge stacks being sorted by title |
Now, we both know, stockpiling magazines is not that
uncommon. Publications celebrate interiors where people have waist-high stacks
wedged under consoles, or whatever. Even in the drive to digital substitutes,
many of us know that no device – no matter how portable – can substitute for
the pleasure of curling up with a magazine. The screen image may be pristine, but
it’s also somehow sterile and at a remove. Not the same at all.
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stacks of catalogs and books, and linens that also have no home |
That said, buying new magazines conflicts with my
mission the same way you can’t pay off a credit card while you're still charging
on it. It just won’t work. So, I’m committed to dropping a (really large)
bundle of magazines on the curb until I’m down to the true keepers (domino, etc). Almost all of the catalogs are gone now, save for the Anthros to be
sold online. It’s really liberating seeing them go, now that I really noticed
how deep the situation had gotten. And it wasn’t just magazines. The books have
gotten out of hand too. Those I give away. And some of the bedding must go.
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it really is all too much once it's all out in the open |
By
summer’s end, I’m really looking forward to reclaiming my storage space and not
having more than fits into them. The going is slow, but steady.
Wish me luck!
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