Just as there are shelter magazines like Architectural Digest,
Southern Living, and Better Homes and Gardens, there are what I call shelter
websites. Depending on the frequency of their emails, or perhaps I’ve
bookmarked them, I check at least one every day. My favorite is Houzz, but I
get updates from The Spruce, Real Simple, and others. Every once in a while I
save an interesting picture or idea from one of them. One never knows from
whence inspiration will some, do one?
But lately I’ve been shutting down on these websites. My house is
probably in its last decorating scheme. I’m not going out to get a new shade of
paint for the walls, or to reupholster my couch. I’m not going to rearrange my
living room. So except for being able to admire some beautifully decorated
rooms, genuine eye candy, I really don’t need to take up time at my laptop to view
such shelter sites. Besides which…
I am an organized person, and I don’t need 10 Ideas for
Decluttering Your Kitchen, 10 Tips for Using Leftovers, (I rarely have
leftovers) or 10 Hacks for Paring Down Your Wardrobe. That last one – hacks –
really annoys the heck out of me. A hack is a hackney, a cab. Or it’s what you
do to cut down a tree. Maybe they use hack to cut down a problem, as they do
for cutting into someone’s computer. Anyway…
One of the most annoying things to me is the concept of a “retreat.”
I’ve blogged
about this in years past, and the concept still annoys me. Houzz has oodles
of articles on bathroom retreats. Just search for “retreat” on their website,
and you’ll find over a thousand of them. I usually get a chuckle visualizing
the poor, harried folks who must retreat from their fraught, stressed lives and
beat a hasty retreat from it all.
So that’s my rambling for the morning. I had nothing pithy or
clever to post on today’s blog, so I thought I’d do a minor rant.
Next time, the curmudgeon in me may take on the subject of the
strange hairdos many of the gals are sporting these days. They look like they’ve
been in a high wind, or they wound their curlers wrong. Maybe next time…
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