Throwing away anything with eyes is difficult, even if it is a stupid cuddly toy or a doll with a dirty dress

WWhat I always find special about houses in interior design magazines: there is never furniture in a room that has nothing to do with that room. Would they temporarily move that kind of furniture out of the picture, or do those people really not have them?

I’m talking about big, ugly furniture that you no longer want, that no longer serves a purpose and that is too complicated to throw away. And where, for example, there are still seven thousand old ones Donald Ducks that have to be stored somewhere. Furniture that you’re too lazy to take apart and take to the dump on that one magical day when you have the time, a car available, the dump open, and the mental and physical strength to do it all. to be present to some extent.

I’m talking about the green-orange-yellow-blue cupboard in our bedroom. That room once belonged to my children, and then that cupboard was introduced, because it was enormously large and, in addition to the above-mentioned seven thousand Donald Ducks could accommodate a lot of clothes and belongings. When we, the parents, took over the room, we left the cupboard in place.

It wasn’t very zen, and probably not feng shui either; In any case, I have not read in any oriental or other interior philosophy book that it would be good for your well-being to leave an immense, falling apart Ikea children’s cupboard in not-quite-primary colors in the master bedroom, full of never-used children’s stuff.

But he was left behind. Including all those comics, children’s boxing gloves, cuddly toys, puppets, tiny mountain boots. It wasn’t all very pretty, not very convenient and probably unhealthy, feng shui wise.

This has now come to an end thanks to a local spring cleaning: the cupboard has been dismantled and I have thrown away half of the things that were in it. Sometimes that was difficult; Throwing away anything with eyes is difficult, even if it is a stupid cuddly toy or a puppet doll with a dirty dress.

I tried to offer all kinds of things to my neighbors, but they responded with little enthusiasm to my cardboard box with free stuffed animals. I understood that: there is nothing parents want to keep outside their homes more than big, dusty stuffed animals.

Now the closet is in pieces ready to be removed, many bags have gone to the clothes bin and I have collected the seven thousand Donald Ducks placed in leaning piles on the windowsill because I find it difficult to put them away and I’m sure my son doesn’t like it either.

Now that the hideous cupboard has been demolished, there is no room for it anywhere in our house Donald Ducks. They will collect dust for a long time, perhaps forever, yellowing and eventually crumbling on the windowsill. You also rarely see that in home design magazines.