21 Days of Downsizing: Day 3
Welcome to my 21 day series of downsizing my NYC shoebox apartment for a move to Australia! Alex + I have already downsized about 70% of our belongings, but I’ve got some “on the fence” items from my closet and I could use a bit of help!
If you know me well, you know that while I’ve come around on downsizing my fashuun, I will *gulp* NEVER downsize my stuffed animals. Cuz #crazystuffedanimallady
So, tune in to help me decide what closet items to keep or not to keep! Simultaneously, I’ll introduce you to one of my stuffed animal friends, cuz I could NEVER downsize them!
Day 3 – Will Camouflage Ever Become Extinct?
Meet Dino.
We didn’t mean for it to happen, but it did. We sappily kept an intended gift.
“Let’s get an adiboo for Max,” Alex and Christina discussed one day while eating breakfast, upon learning that Alex’s sister Lara’s one-year-old son had fallen into obsession with her childhood archnemesis, a huge stuffed gorilla named Bananarama who would hide in her car and scare her at the most unfortunate moments.
While a bemused Alex sighed in laughter at the picture of the large gorilla almost the same size as Max, Christina began the hunt for a super cute adiboo.
“Manhattan Toy, that’s perfect,” gushed Alex, “So nice that the dino will be from NYC. And seriously, how cute is he!”
Dino arrived to Alex and Christina’s Murray Hill apartment in his spaceship capsule, a clear plastic bag within a cardboard box.
“Can we take him out ’til we’ve written the card?”
It was a simple question, but it was one that would unknowingly change the course of future events forever.
Depressurized from his spaceship, Dino was greeted by all the other adiboos in Adibooland. Soon, he befriended a bear, a squirrel, a dog, many bunnies, seals and more. They’d get coffee together, go fishing, find ginkgo leaves, paint and converse all day long. Dino felt at home.
However, home was not meant to be NYC. Dino was to pack his bags and take a flight to Australia, where he’d save Max (but mostly Lara) from the antics of the feared Bananarama.
A week went by. “Alex, are we shipping Dino out?”
Two weeks. “Alex?”
Three weeks.
Four weeks.
By this point, Dino knew the coffee order of his closest friend Grundy. He knew that Sal loved bluefin tuna. He would stand at attention whenever hearing the word “hut!” while Australia seemed but a distant memory.
Five weeks. “Okay, we’re doing it. He’s going,” Alex asserted, while putting Dino into his space capsule.
Three more days.
“Babe, we need to mail Dino!” Christina nudged Alex.
Suddenly, a noise penetrated the atmosphere, a shrill metallic clang paired with a sharp vacuum *thuuunk*…
And as Dino emerged from his spaceship, Alex looked at Christina sheepishly, “I can’t do it. I can’t send him. Dino. He’s staying. I’m ordering another one.”
Dino’s brother now lives in Australia.
Now For Fashuun: To Keep or Not To Keep
On the fence about the below items. To keep or not to keep? Comment below and let me know your thoughts!
- a camo jacket that I bargained for at a night market in Taiwan that I don’t always reach for but has a special place in my heart
- this blue + green camo Valentino purse that I found at a sample sale in the city where the top is now slightly warped from use or haha mishandling…but I’ve taped the inside to salvage it…haha
- a pair of blue-green tights that I rarely wear but I’m such a sucker for the color that I keep them for those once-in-a-blue-moon moments, such as this one where I’ve decided to persist through this series that’s keeping me entertained and sane while downsizing everything in our apartment
- these blue velvet Dries Van Noten boots with amber lucite faceted heels that also don’t get much wear these days…okay, who am I kidding, I can’t get rid of these, can I?
- a punchy green hi lo BCBG dress that I’ve had for AGES but still love…I can’t think of anything I don’t like about it other than not really having a chance to wear it these days!
Stay tuned for day four…