Woman creates her dream nursery
A 35-year-old woman decided to make herself the perfect girl's room - the one she dreamed of during her difficult childhood.
Destiny Risto grew up in a dysfunctional family: her mother worked in a strip club and often disappeared, and her father could do nothing about it. Her parents were constantly arguing and filed for divorce when the girl was only seven years old. Due to the conflict between adults, Destiny did not receive the attention that a child should have, and did not have any toys at all - for this, she was bullied by other children at school.
In 2017, Destiny studied to be a psychologist, and at the same time her father, who raised the girl after the divorce, died of cancer. The death of her father was followed by the deaths of her mother, grandmother, grandfather and sister, and Risto was left all alone. Then the woman turned to her inner child, thinking: "What would little Destiny want now?" The answer was her own nursery, filled with everything Risto's family couldn't afford when she was a child.
The first purchases Destiny made for her project were an inflatable sofa, a lava lamp, and a VHS tape of The Princess Diaries. Over the course of three years, hundreds of other things were added to this list, found at flea markets and on eBay: dolls, figurines, magazines, posters, tapes, discs, and consoles - all based on the shows of the 90s and 00s.
During this time, Destiny got married, but her husband only supported her initiative, allocating an office in their home for a "nostalgia room." He also advised his wife to start a TikTok and post videos of her finds there - the idea turned out to be very successful, and people who also didn't get enough "childish" things in their childhood began to subscribe to Risto. Subscribers admitted that they see a therapeutic effect in Destiny's content: watching the woman's videos, they catch nostalgia for the ideal childhood that they always imagined in their heads when they were little.
