Get rid of it. They’re a dime a dozen, and if you ever have an irrational urge to have one again, you can easily replace it. (Can you tell I’m trying to unload a lifetime of accumulation?)
In the maybe pile? LOL.
Posted by justme on 01/03/06 at 02:11 PM
Well, the three of you have managed to encapsulate my dilemma. So, do we have a tie-breaker out there?
It’s all by its lonesome in the ‘maybe’ pile. That means the decision has been postponed.
That’s the only thing that I have been ambivalent about so far, so that’s a sign of progress. I’ve filled four huge trash bags and and a couple of large boxes and I’m still weeding.
But I really do like the lava lamp. Maybe I could reserve a space for it in one of the bookcases.
A Mathmos Blimp very nearly found its way into the house last month. I am so weak when it comes to cool gadgets and gizmos. I love those things.
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Have a great big margarita and tell the SVOR to take a hike....then keep the lava lamp. Sure you could always buy another, but that would be silly. It will have a place of honor on the new bookshelves!!
Posted by cyn on 01/03/06 at 09:29 PM
Well, it’s definitely not going downstairs. No foyer and no credenza. 
It’s still in the maybe box where it’ll stay until I have this room put back together again. If I can find the right place for it, the lamp stays. If not, it’ll have to find a new home. I really do like it, though. I think a place on one of the new shelves might be a good spot for it.
Meanwhile, I’m gradually making my way through all the STUFF. The room is still a godawful mess, but at least the mess is showing definite signs of organization. The STUFF that I’m keeping is being piled up on one side of the room as the other side of the room is emptied.
When I am finished with this phase, there will be nothing left to get rid of. The only STUFF remaining in the room will be furniture, lamps, computer equipment and peripherals, and the essentials that I want to keep. The latter is turning into a small pile. The books are piled in the hallway. Stacks taller than I am. But they’ve also been weeded out.
I’m not moving on to the next phase until I’ve pared everything down to the bone.
Then I get to paint, which suddenly seems like an easy task.
No credenza? No foyer? Yikes!
That reminds me that the hallway in our Westwood house (Ca.) had an arched niche in the wall where we kept the phone; that would have been a perfect place for a lava lamp. ‘Course, somebody would have had to invent it a little earlier; we lived there from 1960-1962. 
Dear gawd Linkmeister, don’t be giving her any ideas about putting holes in her walls right now! Yeash.
Posted by justme on 01/04/06 at 05:04 AM
LOL! As if! I’m pretty good at tearing walls out, but not so good at carving niches into them.
My grandmother had one of those arched niches in one of her homes. I must have been around 5 at the time. She had her phone there, too. With a straight-back chair right underneath for her longer telephone conversations.
I don’t suppose she’d have placed a lava lamp in that space, though. I think she’d have liked a lava lamp. Instead, she had an Econolite
Niagara Falls Motion Lamp which she placed on top of their console television set. It fascinated the heck out of me.
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Keep it. A friend bought me a Mathmos Blimp for Christmas. It doesn’t go with anything either. It’s on my night stand. My nightstand is getting full AND the cats like to walk across it, so if I don’t find a better place for it then they will eventually knock it off, and then it will probably break, and then I will be sorry. But if I put it anywhere else then I won’t be able to relax and watch it’s rapidly changing colors light up my bedroom ceiling and then turn it off without getting out of bed. Boo.
