No Room for a Bedside Table

Edited repost:When the HG was in college and still living at home, she slept in an attic garret of strange proportions, and there really wasn't room for a table next to her bed, and she is a late night reader.
Happily, she is only 5'2" tall, so used what she called a bed-top basket instead.  A taller person or a restless sleeper could store the basket on the floor by the bed or under the bed at night.  The HG just left her basket at the foot of the bed because she slept curled up like a kitten and didn't thrash much.

She used her basket to hold current journals, books she was reading, books she wanted to read (only a small selection of those), pens, bookmarks, lotion and chapstick.

*Water froze in that attic bedroom on winter nights so she used a hot water bottle.
* The pink and orange bear is a Nosy Bear. She had one when she was small but lost it somewhere on an international flight.   I found one at a thrift shop shortly before her 19th birthday, however, and she loved it.
*The rabbit was made by my sister-in-law, a very talented lady.

In similar small space situations, I have had offspring use totebags hung on the bedposts as well, and a windowbox planter hung over the headboard or foot-board would also provide extra storage.

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