Just after we moved (to our 825 square foot duplex) a friend sent around an email. Someone she knew was giving away their train table. Knowing that our young one loved, loved, loved trains she passed this fabulous news along to me. Oh I so wanted one of these two years ago!!! I had visions of the delight such a place could hold for DS2. But God's timing was impeccable. I had just worked my way away from three-quarters of the things I used to have. I was still in de-acquisition mode, not acquisition mode. As I thought about it, I realized that lacking the table, with it's defined layout for a train track, DS2 had been 'making do' with the floor. He’s done some amazingly complex bridges across his entire bedroom floor. He's run them out of one room and into the next. He's done so much more on the floor than he ever could on a train table. In fact, by the time the opportunity of the train table was offered, I discovered he'd probably feel confined by the table.
A side benefit of no room for stuff – more room for imagination! And without a table taking up space permanently, when the track is put away, the floor is wide open space for other imaginative play.
How many other one purpose possessions are taking up space? Do we really need them?
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