The author is considering getting rid of their dining room table because it has become more of a catch-all for clutter in their small apartment rather than a place for the family to eat meals together. The table was passed down from the author's father and holds piles of laundry, bills, tools and other odds and ends instead of being used for its intended purpose. The author hopes to one day buy a house with enough space for a proper dining room so they can have a special place for family meals away from distractions.

1. Dining Room Table
Although I love my dining room table, it is about to go. I live in a small
apartment, and I have found that it collects packages and other things so much
that we no longer eat there. I know that it is bad for a family to watch
television while they are eating dinner, but right now, this is the best for us.
Quite often we sit around the coffee table rather than the dining room table to
eat our meals. It’s less than ideal, but when you live in a place a small as we
do, you have to do what works.
The dining room table I have has been around for quite a while. It was in my
father’s house for many years, and he gave it to us when he bought a new table.
It’s not that I don’t like the table, it’s just that it’s not helping my clutter
situation at all. If you were to look at my dining room table right now you
would see piles of laundry, a stack of bills, tools, drawings, and a big basket
of odds and ends. Once in awhile I get motivated and clear off the table, this
doesn’t happen as often as I wish.
I hope that we will soon be buying our own house, and that we will have a
special place for our dining room table. We have a space that is considered the
dining room, but this space is very tiny. When the dryer broke on our apartment
size washer and dryer unit, our landlord bought a full-sized dryer. Because we
had nowhere else to put it, it went in the dining room space. This left little
room for the dining room table, or anything else for that matter.
If I were to have my own home, I would never consider getting rid of my dining
room table. I do very much want to have a dining room so that we may eat meals
together away from the television. I think that that half an hour for mealtime
should be a special time for my husband and our daughter. Because he works so
much, they sometimes do not get to spend in a lot of time together. Perhaps
having a functional dining room table would change all of this. All I know is
that until we have room for everything that we need, my table will serve as a
landing place for everything and anything.