This is another one of the short stories for Children Fiction Books. This story is about recycling and saving the earth. Why buy more when we can recycle and re-use whatever we have? We can save trees by reducing waste and reducing the need to cut down more trees to make furniture.

Jenny wanted to have a closet of her own. She was growing into her teens and wanted her stuff in a space she could call her own. In all of her nine years of life, Jenny had always left her clothes and storage arrangement to her mother.

Now that she was newly acquainted with fashion magazines and pop teen culture, Jenny wanted her own cupboard to store her attire, accessories and whatever else used in dressing up.

“Please, Mommy, may I have a closet of my own?”

Megan, Jenny’s mother, looked at her daughter’s pleading eyes and thought it over. “Yes, you may. Let me see how it can be done.”

The child’s response was a triumphant “Yay!”

“Let’s get our measuring tape and see how much space we have for a new closet.” Megan pondered over whether they should get a new closet for Jenny. Certainly, that would solve the problem immediately but would that be a wise move? Do they need more furniture in a small apartment?

Megan measured the breadth of the room and recorded the measurement in her notebook. They had about 80 inches before the tape ran smack into the closet door. That was all they had to squeeze in a new closet and table.

Megan thought long and hard about it. Do they really need another closet or table? The guest room was small enough as it was with barely enough space for one person to live in, not to mention the additional furniture that was required for basic living needs. What would it look like with more furniture to secret away more junk? That was not a promising thought.

Megan walked over to the built-in closet in the spare bedroom. This room was intended to be the child’s room, only that Jenny wasn’t ready to move into a room of her own.

Jenny shared her parents’ room. She was afraid of the dark and of being alone. That explained why her clothes were in her parents’ room, in a cramped portion of a large closet. There wasn’t room enough to arrange and store clothes and accessories.

Jenny had two large portable chest of drawers which she used to store her fashion accessories like ear rings, ear studs, fashion dangles, bracelets, necklaces, rings, hair clips, hair bands, wrist bands, bangles, and makeup. Jenny had plans to place her portable chests of drawers inside her closet, instead of acting like a traveling gypsy carrying her accessories like luggage, lugging them all over the place.

Megan pondered over the wisdom of buying a new closet. She finally decided to re-use the existing cupboard space and recycle all their junk. Now comes the difficult part of convincing Jenny to settle for the existing closet. Megan said a silent prayer as she prayed for co-operation and understanding.

“Hmm, maybe we can swap closet spaces. I’ll move my stuff into this smaller area and empty out the closet in the spare room. Then you can have the larger space in the other closet? How about that?”

Jenny gave a thumbs–up. She was thrilled. Finally, after months of lugging her storage boxes, they would have a permanent home in her closet. Megan was also happy over the situation. She saved herself a few hundred, and her sanity.

The moral of the story is never to buy more furniture when you can save by re-use whatever you have. Try rearranging your stuff. Create space by making do with whatever you have, instead of buying more junk to mess up your home and life.

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