- buy a dollhouse, and start collecting miniatures again, especially Re-Ment and those ones people actually make)
- shop for stuff on J-List, and fill my house with nice things from Japan
- get useful kitchen items from asian markets--rice cooker, rice paddles, chopping board, pretty bowls and tea cups, a selection of chopsticks, one of those fryer-strainer things...
- find a good thrift store on the edge of a nice area to get furniture and household supplies
- see if WalMart still has those low bookselves for 25$, and if they do, get lots of them and use them for all storage needs, as well as for the books
- arrange the books by color, white-pink-red-orange-yellow-green-blue-purple-black-brown AND the special books by collection, elsewhere
- evenly space the tchotchkes along the top, or gather into little tableau--see which looks better
- get a spice rack or three for my nailpolish collection to live on, organized
- set up a craft area, and put everything away so that I can actually see what I have
- set up a tea corner, where I can display all my tea, my teapots, and my teacups--then get more teapots and teacups
- see if there's a way to put a rack or several shelves on the wall by the door, and line up my shoes on them like on the Piperlime Wall, so I can see them all and know what I have and where they are
- get a coat rack--maybe one of those brightly colored ones from IKEA
- see if those furniture delivery guys will also pick up smaller stuff (non-furniture) and deliver that, too
- look up all the bus lines, and plan out trips
- go through all my old paperwork, shred the oldest and least needed, and use it to start the compost; file the rest in a nice box that I can store somewhere until a repeat
- work on replacing all the crap furniture and storage stuff with nicer versions--the plastic drawers with file boxes and wooden furniture, eg
- always keep the pantry full of things i actually like to eat, and try to shop regularly
- keep flowers on the table
- keep a tray with a butter dish, honey, sugar, italian-spiced oil, sirarcha, soy sauce, chopsticks, napkins, etc on the table at all times
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