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How Retail Therapy is Getting Me Through the Pandemic
All of the things that I bought during this time will forever be known as my “pandemic purchases”
Before the stay at home order was enforced, my sister was living with me and my fiancé — I had been living with her for nearly four years. She moved out in early March right before things got really bad in New York.
Her room was the biggest room in our entire apartment and for the past month after she had moved out, it kind of felt like untouchable territory.
It was now an empty room that echoed loudly with even the slightest bit of noise. We avoided going in there for a while because we didn’t know exactly what to do with it.
After enough time had passed, I finally made the decision just recently to make it into a home office. Since then, all that has been on my mind is how I should decorate it and what I should buy to put inside of it.
After all, there’s no better way to waste all of this time at home than to figure out how to decorate a room. But I was never much of a shopper, let alone an online shopper looking for home furniture.
When I first moved to New York almost a decade ago, I didn’t own that much furniture — I didn’t own any furniture really. I just had a…
