Køber du pynt? - Do You Buy Knickknacks?

Jeg har en veninde, der klager over manglende plads i skabe og skuffer. Hun siger selv, at hun ikke køber ret meget og aldrig store ting . Hun køber bare lidt 'hygge'. "Det er jo dejligt at pynte op og forny. Ellers bliver det hele så trist."

Det kan hun jo have ret i. Hun vil typisk købe lidt stearinlys, nogle nye lunch servietter eller en lille dug, et par søde lysestager, et par potteplanter i nogle søde zink urtepotteskjulere, og hendes borddækning er altid ny og spændende. Hun er så god til det.

Men uden at tænke på det akkumulerer hun ting, for når man ser på hendes indkøb, er det kun stearinlysene og potteplanterne, der er forgængelige. Bagefter skal der findes plads til lunch servietterne, lysestagerne og urtepotteskjulerne. Sammen med alle de foregående hygge-indkøb.

Tænk over det, når du køber lidt nyt til at friske op med. Tænk på at købe noget, der er forgængeligt. Pynt et frugtfad. Køb stearinlys i en ny farve. Sæt en potteplante i en urtepotteskjuler, som du allerede har. Køb blomster til den vase, der står inderst i skabet allerede.

Brug det, du har. Så sparer du både plads og penge.

I have a girlfriend, who always complains about not having enough space in her closets and cabinets. She claims, that she doesn't buy very much, and she never buys big things. She is just buying a bit of  'hygge'. "It is nice to decorate and get something new. Otherwise everything becomes so boring."

And that is true. She will typically buy some candles, new place mats or a small table cloth, a pair of pretty candle holders, and couple of plants in decorative zinc pots, and her lunch table decorations are always new and beautiful. She is definitely very good at it.

But without thinking about it she is accumulating stuff, because when you look at her purchases, it is only the candles and the plants, which are going to disappear. She will have to find space for the table mats, the candle holders and the pots. On top of all the previous 'hygge'-purchases.

Think about it, when you want to buy something to brighten you home.. Buy something, which will not take space up after use. Make a fruit platter. Buy candles in a new color. Put a new plant in a pot, which you have. Buy flowers for the vase, which is standing in the back of the kitchen cabinet already.

Use what you have. You will save space and money.