No process

We haven't made any process since I last updated this blog. Those two ugly plastic towers still grace our living room and all this rain is forcing me to hang up our washing inside. So now I have stuff everywhere and it's doing my head in.

We have our rental inspection this coming Friday, so I've got to tidy this place up. Perhaps while I'm tidying, I'll see what else I can live without and eliminate it. I quite like that idea, now to get the motivation to start...

With work, uni and the kids, it's hard enough keeping on top of getting the clothes and the dishes washed. In this day and age, most people have a dishwasher and a dryer. We have neither and sometimes I like this fact, sometimes I don't.

Downsizing

We have two of these ugly plastic towers of drawers. Forgive the background, it looks pretty messy, hopefully minimising the stuff we have will help with the messiness. The first one was our craft tower, the latter was chock full of technical items such as cables, usb plugs, mouses and who knows what else.




The project is to eliminate stuff from 10 drawers and downsize to 5 drawers. Then it's bye bye one tower of plastic. I hate mess, those pictures should never see the light of day but I had to show you the ugly towers. Mess irritates me and so does that annoying little light flashing on my pc tower just behind my monitor. Grr, I'll have to cover that damned thing with something so I don't have to keep moving my monitor to maintain my sanity.

But flashing lights aside, once this 10 to 5 drawers project is accomplished, it'll be time for the next aim in my quest for the elusive minimalistic home.

A patch of sun

We live in a rental, unfortunately.

It was cheap when we moved in a little over 5years ago and for the area it is still cheap despite the rent increases over 5years which has seen our rent increase by $115 per week. Steep perhaps, I'm actually wondering when they're going to stop jacking our rent up. It seems to me as though the real estate agency makes a game out of it, let's up it $20 this time and see if they stay put or move.
I'm not sure what justifiable reasons they have for upping the rent apart from the reputation of the area. The week we were supposed to move in, the ceiling in the dining room caved. That was okay with me, because it simply meant another week of not paying rent. Two years later, one of the kitchen cupboards (three doors wide and two shelves high) came away from the wall and came crashing down. We'd been standing just inches out of harm's way.
But that's not why I'm writing this post. This post is about the bountiful amount of sunlight we get in our delightful shambles of a rental home.
Because of this glorious amount of sunlight, our rental is consequently very, very cold in winter. Not helped at all by having tiled floors throughout the majority of the house. This is a house that hasn't been well thought out in terms of temperature comfort, methinks anyway.



As you can see from this picture, in order to get this pretty patch of morning sun in an useless part of the house, we have to first open the door. This works most of the time, but our next door neighbour who shares our lounge room wall has a smoking habit that he vehemently denies having. That little wall with the pot plants on it, behind the cat. Those are the steps to his door, so as you can imagine, sometimes we are graced with the wafting smell of filthy smoke. So it becomes a choice that isn't much of one, a patch of sunlight or un-smoke-scented air? Sometimes we get lucky and we get a patch of sunlight and fresh air. Who knows what tomorrow will bring.

Live like a Gypsy

I found this quaint little home on the weekend. Isn't it gorgeous? Methinks if I were a gypsy, this would make the perfect home for me.

There are more of these tiny houses, that actually look like mini houses but on wheels! A portable home, this person is a genius! :) Maybe I should build one myself, the idea's kind of laughable though, I don't think I could build such a cute house. But I wouldn't be opposed to giving it a try if given the chance.

Seeing the tininess of these houses gives me the inspiration and motivation that I need for reducing the amount of 'stuff' I have.

Can I have that in Sydney?

I saw this article the other day and the first thing I thought was, 'if only this was in Sydney not Adelaide'. Though, granted if it had been in Sydney, I doubt it would have made it to the papers still bearing a 'for sale' sign.

The beginning of the chronicles

I've been obsessed with throwing things out. I have a love of throwing things out and I'm constantly saying that we have too much stuff, or that someone has too much stuff. I make suggestions to friends as to how to rearrange their rooms to maximize empty space. Sometimes they take my advice, sometimes they don't. I can't deny that I like space, I like open spaces. In fact I spend a lot of time thinking about how to best arrange rooms using what we have and if it means throwing something out, great! I love rooms that people call minimalistic rooms. Those rooms are so alluring to me, they draw me in with their tidiness and cleanliness.

I do admit I have a long way to go before I only possess stuff that I need and not stuff that I want.

I don't remember when it started - my passion for less.