My Pretty Mailbox

I get annoyed to see flyers being slot carelessly on my gate. I didn't buy an expensive gate-cum-door for people to slot ugly papers on my gate to look like my house is some warehouse. But I don't want a cheap looking Daiso basket hanging at my gate just to hold those flyers. So when I chanced upon a pretty country-theme  mailbox on Tao Bao, it got me thinking. 

I had a thousand reasons not to put it up, though:

- it’s not practical. The flyer distributers would find it more convenient to slot the flyers at my grilled gate. They probably won't ever bother to use it.

- it doesn’t fit my theme. My place is anything but country.

- I already have a mailbox at the void deck. This is redundant.

- it’s too small for a normal-sized parcel.

- I can’t drive a screw or a nail into the wall. I don’t have the tool, the skill and strength for it. 

- it’s external wall. I am not supposed to tamper with it.

- the mailbox needs two tiny screws to be put up. It won’t be straight. In fact, I don't even know if I'll ever get two screws to fit the two hanging holes of the mailbox!

But I thought about the mailbox each time I logged into the Tao Bao app.

I trawled through the whole Tao Bao app to make sure it was the loveliest mailbox of all.

Then I spent that $20 to stop myself from thinking so hard over it. If it can make me stop thinking and wondering if I should get it, it's money well-spent.

I bought two 3M wall-sticker screws that were tiny enough to go through the hanging holes. 

The mailbox does look slanted though. Oh well, let's not be 'so perfectionistic' - something I often hear from the people around me.

The clever ones know what the mailbox is for

But you will always have the recalcitrant ones

Besides the mailbox, I bought a cute unit number display. My goodness, there were tonnes of them on Tao Bao. I had a hard time choosing. There were classy ones, simple ones and cute ones. I decided to get something that's cute. The motion-sensor light is actually detachable. It's magnetic. I can just pluck it off the plate and charge it when the battery has run out. 

This is how the front of my flat looks like

That's a circular shoe cabinet. It's not a dustbin. 

The bench is metal, not wooden.

The grass mat is from a Tao Bao seller who supplies synthetic grass to the Beijing's Bird Nest Stadium. It actually only cost $15 which I thought was a steal. What caught me off guard was the shipping fee. $57. I ended up paying more than if I had gotten it off Shopee. Oh well, I told myself I would have an Olympic stadium quality grass mat.