Sunday, February 13, 2011

Apartment living

Since I have lived in houses that I purchased for well over 20 years, there are pros and cons to living in an apartment that I had forgotten about. Here is the short list I have discovered so far:
Cons: 1. My washer is TINY. I can wash two pairs of jeans at one time, only one sheet at a time, or just my socks and underwear for the week!
2. I don't want to turn the music on at 5:30 in the morning when I get up because I am afraid I will disturb my neighbors.(Not that I would have turned it on at home at that hour either, for similar reasons.) 3. I hear all the car doors closing when my neighbors or their visitors arrive - all of them.
4. There is very little storage space for things like boxes that I want to keep.
5. I have to scrape the ice and snow off my car before I can leave every morning because I don't have a garage.
Pros: 1. I don't have to remember to take the trash cans down to the curb on the appointed day. I just put my trash in the dumpster - I don't even know when it gets emptied.
2. If the pilot light on my furnace goes out, I just call the nice young man in the office and he comes to light it for me.
3. Someone else has to shovel the walk, drive and parking lot.
4. There is very little storage space, so I really can't keep things like boxes.
5. If the furnace goes out, the well runs dry, the roof leaks, the garage door breaks, or any other major calamity occurs, I won't have to shell out the five thousand bucks to get it repaired.
6. It took me all of 45 minutes yesterday to clean the whole house. Dusting, cleaning, vacuuming, mopping - everything - all done in 45 minutes!
A few other pros about my new home:
1. It is 3 miles to work.
2. It is three miles to Target.
3. I couldn't iron anything if I wanted to because I don't have an iron.
4. I can pretty much do anything I want on my time off from work - eg. I can eat what I want when I want, watch what I want, do what I want. Yesterday, after cleaning my house and doing 6 loads of laundry I watched girlie movies, followed by Star Trek and then I had popcorn and yogurt for supper. :)
The cons... should be obvious to anyone who knows me... I miss my friends and family.

1 comment:

  1. We miss you too. Amino Marhta ;) I wish I had time to drive down. I would so watch girlie movies with you.

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