Put The Whole World On Your Desk
2 weeks ago was my husband’s birthday, I tell you what, I had run into a real situation. I couldn’t think of any good ideas and I wanted it to be special. He is just one of these really technical guys. Currently its all on the subject of ipods, laptops, smart phones and devices that I can neither remember nor appreciate. And furthermore, if he actually desires it, he just goes to the store and gets it himself. I make an effort not to think about the amount of cash that goes towards this.
Then, I was downstairs trying to create any type of headway in tidying his office, when I finally realized that the answer had been staring me in the face. To explain this, permit me describe his office first. My husband’s office is the dark, dank pit of everything is unholy. One can find piles of documents all over the place, stacks of books, file folders, paperclips, post-its, you name the office supply and it is scattered in there somewhere. And am I allowed to lay a hand on any of the papers or books? Oh, no! All of it is where it is for a reason, he would be unable to find several hours of work and that would be a travesty for him So I dust them lightly and sanitize on all sides of them, delicately throwing away any litter that clearly does not include notes on it (he just loves to use napkins for his brainwork).
But all this, I’m sure I can cope with. So it looks like a dude works here, okay. At the least, my cleaning abilities cannot be held accountable for that! But the space is 100% undecorated; unless you include the fantastic leather bound encyclopedias here and there, the mini skeleton on his desk, and north american map poster on the south wall. Now, I am mostly certain, knowing my husband, that the inspiration behind the sculpture attached to the desk as well as poster attached to the wall, is that he desired to appear cultured. Of course, we could have enough money better than that crummy poster, except he would in no way spend the time making it happen.
So, clearly a present to him could also be a gift to me! I searched everywhere before I found specifically I sought. To my astonishment, I got the thought of getting him a globe. I in no way would have imagined that this would be the answer, but the more I thought about it, I knew a Replogle Globe will be an easy method to give his administrative center some greatly needed stylishness and atmosphere. Adding an antique world globe to his office may well produce that “old world” look that you could observe in an old library in Scotland or something. I found delightful old world globes, as well as desktop globes, and also floor standing globes from Replogle, that I think look amazingly classy (Definitely many hundreds of times better, compared to that darn map poster attached to the wall!).
I finally ended up deciding on an old world desktoptop globe and snuck it on his cluttered desk while he was at work. What a shocker, ha! It was pretty tough getting all his books and manuscripts back exactly as they were, but we seemed to handle it okay. He loves his gift so much! (As do I!)
Lilian McDonald is a product review specialist at BuyChoice.com. A company specializing in home decor such as desktop world globes, and other high end products like Hunter Ceiling Fan brand products.