Lol. I'm kinda opposite mostly. I tend to go more simple yet elegant or stuff that can be modified if I need to.
Except for actual furniture like chairs. I am not re-uphostering furniture if I like the style, but not the material.
Although if something looks perfect and isn't too expensive, I have been known to occasionally splurge on items. Like my small stone mosaic topped kitchen table with faux leather covered stools (that have been pretty badly punctured/knicked by Shade who likes to lay on and knead them).

I wont lie the nicest thing i ever splurged was a glass coffee table and its a very nice coffee table.

I...actually really want a coffee table. Unfortunately, most don't offer the level of functionality that I require/would like. Because I have a shit ton of yarn and would love something that I could display and store yarn in, but which also is cat-proof because Batty likes to eat my yarns, but also isn't a bitch to get into.
XD
I'm too picky to get a coffee table. XD

Also, I just realized that probably 4 of my 5 storage idea screenshots are basically just different configurations and customizations of the same ikea cabinet.
O.O

I wish i could help, however ours is there b/c it looks good as opposed to being functional.

I mean...how it looks in the room is important too...

Sorry

8D
Was doing a search and found a pretty neat looking terrarium coffee table that (except for a couple little holes (as it is intended for plants) actually would be pretty nice! I could layer yarn cakes in it for a crafty/artsy look! The only downside is that I would have to have it shipped here (which being as it is mostly glass can be pretty risky) and it is around $300, not including shipping costs.
XD

De-cluttering in progress! Have removed 99% of everything from the closet. Everything except for the blinds that I took down when I put my curtains up, although some of them are pretty well destroyed and could be tossed, the 2 tubs of Disney ornaments that I love, but don't have a way to decorate with this year, and the suitcase/luggage bits that don't stink of cat spray from a previous, unpleasant, living arrangement, although tbh, I haven't really used the luggage stuff practically since I was given them, so I probably could just get rid of all of it.

Now to sort and put back only essential items...like clothes that I will be keeping and wearing and yarn projects that are in progress because I need to keep Batty from trying to eat them.

Have you looked into storage that is also furniture, like say a bench-chest combination? A sofa with drawers in the base? Also, if you could find something like the terrarium table that's clear acrylic instead of glass, it might be les risky to have shipped.

Yes, but a lot of that stuff is A) too big ti fit in my teeny tiny apartment or B) Is way out of my price range.
Which at this point is basically in the $0-$30 range. XP
Because 2 jobs does not mean rich bitch unfortunately.

And also the less-obvious reason of....c) It would be too easy to just stash stuff and forget about it, which I already do.

As for the coffee table: if it exists i n a cheaper, less breakable form, that would be cool, but since I spent hours browsing furniture before stumbling across the glass one, I'm already pretty tired of searching up furniture that I can't really afford for now. But having some searh terms that I can use should make it easier to hopefully find something. Unfortunately, the odds of not having to pay shipping are pretty slim, so that will make it more expensive even if I do find a cheaper version. (Also, tbh if I had the money, I'd probably take glass over clear acrylic as acrylic just doesn't quite match the clarity of glass.

Decluttering closets is so hard because that's a lot of going though everything. Also I'm lazy.

Except for the fact that I am relient on someone else to help me get stuff I'm donating to the actual donation places so I have boxes stacked in my kitchen at the moment, the closet is actually coming along nicely so far. Have gotten my tubs of Disney ornaments up onto the top closet shelf, the middle and bottom shelves will be for sheets, blankets, towels and spare toilet paper (until I can buy a small secondary cabinet for the bathroom), and I am able to now stack most of my yarn tubs in the back of the closet, which will free up some floor space in the bedroom. The next task will be working on my laundry mountain so I can sort out clothes to keep and clothes to toss and donate. But I don't have enough quarters to get through all of that right now, which will make that a long, slow process. But I have eliminated around half of the clean clothes I had in the closet.
At this point, my only real goal is to get my bed cleaned off again before it's time to sleep and to get a bunch of the garbage picked up and taken out. And to find a time when my friend is able to help take stuff over to goodwill.

It amazes me just how much crap I had stashed in there though.

Mom's doggo with cancer is in a bad way. I feel all the bad emotions relating to grief and the dog isn't even dead yet. I started a go fund me to try and get money for his surgery but it's not looking good.

In better news I made and sent my Christmas cards I wanted to do, got all the ornament gifts done (and Kaderin's will be in the mail Monday) And I somewhat successfully did another marble glaze cake for my sisters' birthday yesterday.

I feel about the same tbh, i'm so sorry about the dog.

On one hand I'm super depressed he is sick and dying, on the other I'm bitter that he didn't hold on until January at least so mom could maybe not be extremely depressed for Christmas.

We need at least $100 by Monday for the surgery but have only gotten $15 in donations. We are going to the vet Monday to have the jaw tumor looked and and discuss options financially and then we have to make the hard choice of going deeper in debt we can't afford to prolong his life, or having him put down forever. If it weren't for the location of this one fucking tumor he would still be a happy pupper. He'd still have the cancer in his body but the most painful issue is the one tumor in the mouth that he keeps poking with his teeth and causing him pain.

I hope you can reach that goal! Your pupper doesn't deserve all that pain.

Whoo boy am I mad. A scammer tried to use my dog's go fund me to get me to give THEM money. "we'll donate 500 if you can come up with the money for the transfer fee" Like bitch go fund me won't ask for a transfer fee, even paypal doens't do transfer fees, why should you get one? The closest to a transfer fee is the 3.whatever percent processing fee they have to take out because card companies require it. I would tell the scammer to take the fee out of the donation amount but the way they worded their "offer" was essentially "we need you to pay the transfer fee so we know we can trust you are serious" fdhosafhdasf hdsohjkkljfd so mad.

Still only 15 dollars raised so it's looking grim.

*hugs Damies*
Really wish I had more money because I would give the difference if I could! And then some.
T_T

It's bull that someone tried to pull Who DOES THAT? I don't have much to give, I'ms sorry.

Agreed. Sometimes people have no shame, going around pulling stuff like that, jesus!

I went on hiatus by accident again while I got hyperfixated on Don't Starve.

No shame in that! Hyperfixations happen.

i've still no idea if i'm allowed to use the term bc i'm not diagnosed. hell, the whole mental stuff thing could be something else and not ADHD.

this chemical sponge is very very stupid.

in other news, i don't actually have a copy of don't starve -- i have don't starve together, though.

the lore of the game is very fascinating.

Hyperfixation is used for other things, Autism (Something i have) being one of them. I don't think too many people will mind if you use it, at least I personally don't. i don't speak for everyone of course.

TBH I don't have either. I pirated Don't Starve Together at one point but then i felt guilty.

OH I ALSO GOT MY HANGOUT UP!

Really wish I could play the Don't Starve games. They look really fun, but I have no real way to play them. XP

Mom's dog had to be put down at the vet office Monday. The house feels too calm and quiet without him and it's super weird.

I want to do a painting in his memory but I am having issues actually doing it. I think I want to do a pour on wood then let it dry then do a reverse stencil over it with either a phrase or a silhouette. But I don't know what phrase to use. And finding a perfect silhouette will be hard.

i could probably purchase a copy of DST for the both of you if i get a steam card or two, depends on whether or not it's on sale.

also, oof. i'm sorry for your loss, Damies.

Thing is, my only internet access is via my phone. So pretty sure I can't play anyway...

*gives Damies all the hugs*

Sorry for your loss, Damies. A painting in his memory sounds like a wonderful idea. Don't stress yourself if you can't figure out its details or motivate yourself to start right away. I'm sure with some time you will find just the right phrase to remember him by.

My avatar method is overload my screen with everyone in a certain color palette and eventually weedle it down to something presentable

See that's the logical way lol. I have no plan, I just go

I usually start off with a basic concept, but then change my mind half a dozen times depening on what items I find that I want to use.
XD

Some/most of my items are the same, but my initial color scheme was much lighter/pastel.

...and Derpy is holding a knife...
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