I replenished my magazine collection and caught up with a good portion of the 2015 editions of Better Homes and Gardens, Country Style and a British magazine I’d never read before, called Ideal Home.

  
15 magazine for $3.  Or 20 cents each.  From the op shop. Excellent value when I’d just purchased the latest issue of Home Beautiful for $7.99.

And look, if you ignore the blue carpet squares, the dining table/chair combo at our holiday house is exactly the same as the one in the February 2015 edition of Ideal Home.

Now we are just waiting for puffy green reclining microfibre lounge suites to become fashionable …