A Soupçon of Pleasure

Out with the old (left)

Sometimes it's useful to take a break from big, complicated projects and work on something that can be completed in a small amount of time, e.g., clearing the paperwork on a desk, weeding a patch of the flowerbed, etc. And so it was that I finally took care of an irritant that consumed a few minutes every week.

The plastic shoe rack in the garage was old and flimsy. Pulling items out too hastily caused the whole thing to fall over because one of the posts was cracked.

A light-metal $25 rack was ordered from Amazon and put together in an hour. The old rack was trashed and every item transferred.

Completing this trifle rewarded me with a shot of dopamine, and it still gives me a soupçon of pleasure every day when I walk past the new rack.

And after two months it has never tipped over.