Back when we bought our place, we were very excited to have a second bedroom to use as our home office, because we work from home and in our old place, the office was the dining room, which made it hard to host dinners. This place was advertised as a "two bedroom plus den" but the "den" is the size of a walk-in closet. We affectionately refer to it as The Nook, or, during the holidays when I put up Christmas decorations in there, The Elf Nook.
We had dreams of turning The Nook into a craft room or a reading room as well as a guest room. But we get a lot of deliveries due to Katr's game obsession various reasons and this house has minimal storage and no garage, so it was handy to store empty boxes in The Nook until we got around to taking them to the recycling depot.
Back when Drtr lived with us, The Nook was his room, so we went to the recycle depot a LOT more often. But we haven't had a guest in the room for a few months and this time of year, a lot of boxes arrive and today we realized that Drtr is coming back for a holiday visit soon and the room looks like this:
It's like a hoarder's dream, you guys. Little boxes. Big boxes. Random sheets of paper. Take out bags from various Skip The Dishes orders. Some medical supplies I'm holding for a friend. 500 little padded envelopes. Bags of shredded paper.
My favourite is the cable boxes in the hutch at the back. We just upgraded to Shaw Blue Curve but didn't want to get rid of the old school PVR just in case and it's smart we didn't because Blue Curve sucks VERY HARD and we might have to switch back. Don't talk to Katr about this, she is ready to lose her shit.
Anyway, if you're like me, there's little that's more satisfying than a before and after shot, so today, Katr and I got the shitty scissors and broke down all the boxes and took them to the recycle depot. Here's the "after" shot of the Elf Nook - eat your heart out, Marie Kondo!
After the recycle depot, we went to the Home Depot, where I took a shot of Santa checking out some hot unicorn ass.
