Susan is good at “nesting” and has done a great job of making our new house feel more like a home. It is a skill that I do not possess. Susan can walk through a room and see where things should go. (“We need a mirror there, a table over there, and some flowers right here.”) Me? Every room I’m in charge of “decorating” looks like a Best Buy delivery van collided with a garbage truck, spilling trash and electronics all over the place. I simply don’t have the ability to look at an empty room and visualize what it “could” be.<\/p>\n

One of my goals at the new house is to unbox my entire Star Wars collection and put it all out on display. It’s pretty simple logic, really; if I have toys sitting in boxes out in the garage, then no one is enjoying them and there’s no point in owning them. My new computer\/server room is going to double as a display room. What doesn’t fit in that room, I’ll be getting rid of. I have no interest in simply storing toys in my garage for another 10+ years. <\/p>\n

Over the weekend I set up three sets of shelves in the room. Formerly used for holding DVDs, the shelves have since been re-appropriated into toy displays: one for vintage (1977-1985) Star Wars figures, a second one for my newer (1996+) figures, with various other Star Wars collectibles on the third. In addition to those shelves I also have a large, black shelving unit that will hold toys, both Star Wars and not. I also have some white shelves that I added above the brown shelves. Sadly, all of these shelves combined will only be enough to display around 20% of my collection. <\/p>\n

Mason’s eyes lit up when we opened the first box of Star Wars toys to put out on display. I forget that he’s never seen my complete Star Wars collection. I had most of it on display in our old house, but never unpacked it all at our last house. Mason was less than a year old when we moved last time, so he doesn’t remember any of it. Morgan’s never even seen any of it.<\/p>\n

Slowly but surely, the shelves are filling up.<\/p>\n

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It’s almost a given that I will run out of wall space before I run out of Star Wars items to display. The only question at this point is, what will stay and what will go?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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