Back in 2005, when I moved into my prairie double-wide in rural Kansas, I bought a sturdy used desk at the local DAV Thrift Store for $35.
Over the course of the next 20 years, I worked at that desk almost every day, when I wasn’t off traveling the world — and in fact I ended up writing the bulk of four of my five books on it.
Last year, when Kiki and I renovated the main house on the property and moved in, I took this well-loved old desk back to the exact same DAV Thrift Store where I’d bought it two decades earlier.
In a sense, you could say I rented this desk (for roughly $0.15 a month, if the math serves me correctly) for more than 20 years. I hope whoever acquires it from the thrift store next gets as much use out of it as I did!
The photo below features my new desk (handmade out of Kansas hackberry by my nephew Cedar) in my new office, in our newly renovated main house.
