Shopping In Your Own House

Everyone lives somewhere. No matter where you live, or how you live, you are capable of shopping in your own home. Whether you are completely surrounded by stuff, or are the type of person to love clean minimalism, there is always a way to shop for your home in your own home.

The first way is to explore closets and cabinets for what you have, that you like, and that you never use. When you take what you have out of hiding, and begin to use it again, that item will be new to you again. Once it feels fresh, it would become an object that was missed, and it will bring joy whenever you look at it.

When you purchase something, your first thought should always be, ‘Does this bring me joy?’ 

When you purchase something, your second thought should always be, ‘Will I end up kicking myself if I put this back?’

If we ask ourselves these questions when we shop, our repertoire of what we can use, and rediscover, in our own homes will be that much more special. Filling our lives with what we love will be that much easier. Finding what you’ve forgotten you have will become a much more loved pleasant surprise. Shopping in your own home will become an excursion you love, even if you’re only bringing a lamp from another room into your office or sun room, or bringing a dusty armchair from your basement into your living room.

Even moving objects from room to room can feel like ‘shopping’ because you’ll be editing the maps of rooms in your home.

The second way is by saving objects that could be trash, but could also be saved to create treasure.

Glass jars could be saved as drinking vessels, food storage containers, or, depending on the size, places to store cooking utensils. Glass jars can also be saved as vases for flowers, and numerous other objects.

If you can think of ways to use what could be garbage, then it’s no longer garbage. 

What was garbage has now turned into art supplies. Whatever you can turn into art supplies can help ensure that your work is different from most people’s.

We all see what trash, or recycling, can be morphed into differently.

We all have different ideas of what art can be.

Before you have a garage sale, look at what you’re selling beforehand, and try to imagine it as something else. Whatever you can keep, create with. 

Shop in your own home not only for what you already have, but also for what can help you create what you could have.