Dining Room Table
Although I love my dining room table, it is about to go. I live in a small apartment, and I have found that it collects packages and other things so much that we no longer eat there. I know that it is bad for a family to watch television while they are eating dinner, but right now, this is the best for us. Quite often we sit around the coffee table rather than the dining room table to eat our meals. It's less than ideal, but when you live in a place a small as we do, you have to do what works.
The dining room table I have has been around for quite a while. It was in my father's house for many years, and he gave it to us when he bought a new table. It's not that I don't like the table, it's just that it's not helping my clutter situation at all. If you were to look at my dining room table right now you would see piles of laundry, a stack of bills, tools, drawings, and a big basket of odds and ends. Once in awhile I get motivated and clear off the table, this doesn't happen as often as I wish.
I hope that we will soon be buying our own house, and that we will have a special place for our dining room table. We have a space that is considered the dining room, but this space is very tiny. When the dryer broke on our apartment size washer and dryer unit, our landlord bought a full-sized dryer. Because we had nowhere else to put it, it went in the dining room space. This left little room for the dining room table, or anything else for that matter.
If I were to have my own home, I would never consider getting rid of my dining room table. I do very much want to have a dining room so that we may eat meals together away from the television. I think that that half an hour for mealtime should be a special
time for my husband and our daughter. Because he works so much, they sometimes do not get to spend in a lot of time together. Perhaps having a functional dining room table would change all of this. All I know is that until we have room for everything that we need, my table will serve as a landing place for everything and anything.
