Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Where do I put all this stuff?
Where do I put all this stuff?
The number one concern when moving into a small apartment (we moved in from a 4 bedroom house with a outdoor shed) is where to store all the things you have accumulated over the years. One suggest is to have a yard sell and sell anything that you just can't live without (or don't want to). The items that didn't sell, take to your local thrift store and donte them; not only did you get rid of unused items, but you can deduct these donatios to charity from your taxes.
How many of your kids toys do they really play with? Give them an empty box and ask them to put all the toys they don't play with or want anymore into the box to donate to charity. When you explain to your kids that other children who need toys will get to play with them, they are usually eager to help. Now your kids will be left with the toys they really treasure and they will have more space in their new bedrooms.
Let's talk about the kitchen. Seriously do I really need all of these kitchen gadgets? My inner child screams, yes! their mine! I need them!! Once I put myself in time-out and think about it, I realize that yes, all those shiny electronic little gadgets are fun (once or twice) but how often do I really use them? Not often enough to make me want to drag them all across town and then have to find a place to keep them in my very tiny kitchen. So I start giving away my precious kitchen gadgets. What my grown girls didn't want, I gave away.
Funny thing is, now that they are gone I don't even miss them.
Books. Boxes of books and magazines. I confess. I love to read. I am really thinking about getting a Kindle reader. My reader friends who have one love the thing. I tell myself that it just wouldn't be the same without being able to hold the book and flip back and forth through the pages, dog earing them as I go. However, having a Kindle would be a storage saver. I still haven't unpacked all of my books. It would be nice to have most of them on one reader and use the space taken up with books to hide more kitchen gadgets! Just kidding. I will have to save up for a reader, not in the budget right now. I am really looking forward to trying one out sometime.
The number one concern when moving into a small apartment (we moved in from a 4 bedroom house with a outdoor shed) is where to store all the things you have accumulated over the years. One suggest is to have a yard sell and sell anything that you just can't live without (or don't want to). The items that didn't sell, take to your local thrift store and donte them; not only did you get rid of unused items, but you can deduct these donatios to charity from your taxes.
How many of your kids toys do they really play with? Give them an empty box and ask them to put all the toys they don't play with or want anymore into the box to donate to charity. When you explain to your kids that other children who need toys will get to play with them, they are usually eager to help. Now your kids will be left with the toys they really treasure and they will have more space in their new bedrooms.
Let's talk about the kitchen. Seriously do I really need all of these kitchen gadgets? My inner child screams, yes! their mine! I need them!! Once I put myself in time-out and think about it, I realize that yes, all those shiny electronic little gadgets are fun (once or twice) but how often do I really use them? Not often enough to make me want to drag them all across town and then have to find a place to keep them in my very tiny kitchen. So I start giving away my precious kitchen gadgets. What my grown girls didn't want, I gave away.
Funny thing is, now that they are gone I don't even miss them.
Books. Boxes of books and magazines. I confess. I love to read. I am really thinking about getting a Kindle reader. My reader friends who have one love the thing. I tell myself that it just wouldn't be the same without being able to hold the book and flip back and forth through the pages, dog earing them as I go. However, having a Kindle would be a storage saver. I still haven't unpacked all of my books. It would be nice to have most of them on one reader and use the space taken up with books to hide more kitchen gadgets! Just kidding. I will have to save up for a reader, not in the budget right now. I am really looking forward to trying one out sometime.
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
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A day at the office
I remember when I was little and would here the phrase, "your father is at the office". What a mysterious place the office seemed to me. I never got to visit my father's office until I was older but I just knew that he must be doing all kinds of fun things there, after all that is where he spent most of his time and why would you, as a grown up, stay there unless it was fun right?
Fast forward thirty years and I am at the office. I wonder if I got the wrong office when I was hired. Where is all the mystery, the fun and excitment that keeps me here from sun-up to sun-down? Is it possible that the office was more fun thirty years ago? And where is my "wife" to take care of the kids, cook dinner, clean house and carpool the kids to their doctor appointments, play dates and after school functions? Just gave away my age there uh? Wonder if I could bring my office home. I will have to work on a plan for that; a journey all in itself.
Where I really want to be is at home, being a mother. It would be nice to be able to plan a meal, volunteer in my child's classroom or maybe try to make some fancy cupcakes.
In this blog I would like to share pieces of my big life (at least I think it is) spent in a small apartment. Apartment dwelling is new for me, so I expect there to be many adjustments. Stay tuned!
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