Get a thick zip tie and a step stool. Put the step stool next to the lamp you hit your head on, stand on it facing the lamp. If it’s a dangling cord, loop it and use the zip tie to keep it looped (which is why you want a thick zip tie, more friction) where the cord overlaps itself. If it’s like mine, it’s a chain with a cord woven throw the chain, just zip tie 2 links at the appropriate height. Mine has a hook in the ceiling for the chain, easier to adjust.
@Allan, excellent idea! It’s not a chain though. but also, I never hit it hard, and it makes me laugh not only when it happens, but that the tally keeps getting higher (at 16 now).
But yeah. I could somehow tie it to the wall, or put a chair under it, just nothing good enough to do. 🙂
Louise
As someone who has lived in scores of houses and apartments, and now lives on a boat that moves constantly, I agree the concept of home is very hard to describe. Most people think it is a place, but I believe it is 100% a feeling. Sometimes a place invokes that feeling, but mostly it is simply fully formed inside me. You are such a keen observer of people that I suspect you’ll have more of that feeling as you get to know more of the local people.
@Louise, yeah, people/community/love are the things which seem to most make a home for me. but also I’ve told my lizard-brain the narrative (lie) that I will be living here forever so get used to it, and it’s worked surprisingly well. 🙂
Get a thick zip tie and a step stool. Put the step stool next to the lamp you hit your head on, stand on it facing the lamp. If it’s a dangling cord, loop it and use the zip tie to keep it looped (which is why you want a thick zip tie, more friction) where the cord overlaps itself. If it’s like mine, it’s a chain with a cord woven throw the chain, just zip tie 2 links at the appropriate height. Mine has a hook in the ceiling for the chain, easier to adjust.
@Allan, excellent idea! It’s not a chain though. but also, I never hit it hard, and it makes me laugh not only when it happens, but that the tally keeps getting higher (at 16 now).
But yeah. I could somehow tie it to the wall, or put a chair under it, just nothing good enough to do. 🙂
As someone who has lived in scores of houses and apartments, and now lives on a boat that moves constantly, I agree the concept of home is very hard to describe. Most people think it is a place, but I believe it is 100% a feeling. Sometimes a place invokes that feeling, but mostly it is simply fully formed inside me. You are such a keen observer of people that I suspect you’ll have more of that feeling as you get to know more of the local people.
@Louise, yeah, people/community/love are the things which seem to most make a home for me. but also I’ve told my lizard-brain the narrative (lie) that I will be living here forever so get used to it, and it’s worked surprisingly well. 🙂