365 Day Environment Challenge-a-thon

I'm embarking on a personal year long challenge to improve my environment; at least one thing, one day at a time. My rules are that the challenge cannot consist of general picking up and house cleaning.  It has to be something that is different, new, and that I believe will improve my living space.

I know it's common sense that our environment affects our mental health but I'm astonished at how myself and others neglect their environments and then wonder why they are anxious and depressed.

I have a high tolerance for environment chaos.  I just get used to things being inefficient, ugly, dirty, disorganized etc.

This table is my first example and will kick off my Environment Challenge-a-thon.  I'm excited to see how less neurotic I hopefully will become after it's over.

This table was given to us by a previous neighbor who of course was moving and didn't want it anymore.  We were also moving and are chumps for free things (not that that's bad), however, as other free-gans know, it can be dangerous when lines are not drawn.  This table served as our coffee table for a couple of years.  It's big, bulky, and reminds me of the Jetsons.  Futuristic is definitely not my style, at least for now.  However, we needed a coffee table because we didn't have one and so it served as a table for coffee...and trash, and Kleenex, and dirty dishes, and medicine, and gobs of my daughter's "journals", and books, and pens, and magazines, and DVD cases. It was a home for clutter and trash basically.

I made an executive decision that I wanted it gone.  Craigslist didn't want it, despite the price being dropped several times.  I wasn't surprised.  So, Savers inherited it and will probably try to sell it for $25, more than our lowest asking price.

As far as any immediate mental health results? Aesthetically, the TV room looks better, cleaner, freer, and now is not competing with baby's basinet. It helps my brain think more clearly....

My 6 year old keeps reminding me that I have no place to put my cup since I gave away the table...but I just nod, put it on the ground and know that the cup will go back to the kitchen now instead of end up on the table for the next millennium or until the dishes get done again, whichever comes first.

I'm excited to see what tomorrow will bring...or be discarded of...