A New Laundry Basket

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Can I post something “ordinary” once in a while? Back in January, when I was in Helsinki, Boris and I went to IKEA. Since the Schamburg IKEA is non-reachable by public transportation, we often check what’s new in Helsinki (yes, sometimes you need this “look and feel”), and then I take a picture of the label and check the availability in Schamburg, and then order online 🙂

What I love about this laundry basket is that it is tall, looks tidy, and occupies very little floor space. Before I got this basket, I had a laundry bag hanging on the closet door and a regular laundry basket on the closet floor. Both of them had less capacity than this basket, and also, I didn’t necessarily want to see my dirty laundry each time I open the closet :). I tried to squish as much as possible in the bag, and when it was time to bring the laundry to the washing machine, I would move everything to the basket and carry it. Lots of unnecessary moves, and lots of space taken. Now I am looking at this perfectly designed basket and thinking: why didn’t I get it five years ago?!

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My name is Henrietta (Hettie) Dombrovskaya. I was born in Saint-Petersburg, Russian (actually, back then – Leningrad, USSR) in 1963, and immigrated to the United States in 1996. I love Saint Petersburg, the city I was born and raised in, and I think it’s one of the most beautiful places in the world. Similarly (but differently) I love Chicago, and can’t imagine myself moving somewhere else in the observable future. I have three children, Igor, Vlad and Anna, all adults living on their own, and one (so far) granddaughter Nadia. I also believe that my children are the best thing that happened in my life. As for my professional life, I am working in the field of Information Technologies. When I was twenty, I’ve declared that the databases are the coolest thing invented and that I want to do them for the rest of my life. Thirty plus years later, I still believe it’s true, and still, believe that the databases are the best. These two statements together imply that I think a person can have it all, and indeed, I think so! Keep reading my journals to find out how I did it.

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