I write this post because if you follow me on social media you know I have a thousand ideas and more. One day we’re dreaming tiny homes, the next we’re looking at condos downtown. Lately, we’ve been on we should stay put train.
How do you know what to do with your life?
My husband and I are itchy people who like new, and shiny things. We get bored, frustrated and overwhelmed easily. We also get carried away with trends and new technology. A good example would be the electric car we owned for two years, or perhaps the never-ending parade of technology into our house.
We do not like our house.
It’s uncomfortable. The backyard is miserable and the kitchen is closed off from the rest of the house. It’s a 2-storey house that requires 13 stairs from the bottom to the top. The bottom is just laundry and a potential rental suite (kitchen, bathroom, bedroom).
It’s too much poorly planned space. It’s also an older house with many cold rooms. There’s one bedroom over the garage that’s freezing. The kitchen is liveable because we installed heated floors, but the rest of the house struggles with keeping heat it. And trust me, I know the secrets because that was my job, but really the windows just need replacing.
We keep thinking escaping from this place is the answer, but it is not.
Everything Costs Money.
The tiny house dream would be perfect, but we don’t know what to do with our grey water and/or sewage. Some of the options others do aren’t necessarily the most in line with current bylaws. We don’t feel comfortable with a dry well, and the set up for a lagoon, well, and power access on our own piece of land bumps the tiny house cost of living into a ballpark we can’t afford. If we could share these costs with others, this would be more feasible. However, at this time that is outside of our comfort zone. I’m not a go-getter. I follow.
The condo dream would be perfect, but condos cost more than the value of our house. I don’t bring in an income, and therefore, we don’t really want to be spending more on housing. Condo’s cost $360K or more, plus strata. The one building we did like, we didn’t really like the suites. We’re going to hold off and wait for housing prices to be more than condo prices. I would love to live with other people. To potentially see people in the hallways, at the mailbox, or in the parking garage makes me giddy with excitement. I hate the lonely days in my little square box not talking to anyone but deaf children.
What next?
Don’t expect us to stick to any one plan.
We’re leaning towards staying in the house and investing money into making it feel like a better space for us to live and function. Maybe redo the windows and siding, and gut the kitchen?
Downsizing, purging and embracing minimalism has helped a lot. While my clutter game is still strong, the empty shelves and lack of things in rooms have really made an improvement in how we feel about the space we live in.
How do you know what to do with your life?
I feel like I’m in a perpetual state of trying to figure it out, and I just want to be at peace. I have no idea how to find that peace or get to that place. But more on that later this week. Drop me a comment if you have ideas. .
Even if you don’t end up in a tiny home, all of the preparation you’ve done so far like decluttering and getting rid of unnecessary stuff is still making you feel better about your space, so that’s awesome! I really enjoy all of your reviews as well as the little life updates. 🙂
I would love to move to a tiny home when retire! We have a bathroom that needs gutted in our house and we really need to get on doing it this year, first focus is getting some windows replaced as our bedroom windows are so old! I too am trying to focus on major decluttering and purging so we can enjoy the space we have more without so much stuff around in our way!