We lugged all of our belongings out on to the front lawn and had yet another downsizing yard sale on saturday. It's exciting to make money on things and see other people finding joy in your old things. However it's exhausting to yard sale all day every weekend. By Saturday evening I was trying to convince Richard we should just give everything else away. Guess what?! We did! And it is feeling oh so great to have less junk to deal with.
Sunday morning we got up and started painting the camper (again. . . The painting never ends!) In an attempt to be green and also frugal we have decided not to turn the power on in the camper until we are living in it. That means the 90 + degree afternoons in Utah often require that we find other ways to work toward our camper life goal. This lovely Sunday led us to Ikea! We needed a couch/bed and quite a few other storage solutions. You guys, we spent 4.5 hours in Ikea. I love me some Ikea but that is an emotional event not many can endure. Half of that was spent testing couch softness and debating space on a couch vs space for storage. There was so much measuring and cursing the Universe for making standard couches 78 inches when we only have 76 inches of space. Then there were the dishes. You gotta have smaller drinking glasses, smaller plates, everything smaller. It was weird and emotional to be buying so many things in attempt to move toward being less consumerist and more minimalist.
I digress. When we got home it was obvious to me that we wouldn't be meeting our timeline goal to finish painting. I was a little bummed to say the least. Do you know what happened? My sweet sweet Richard stayed up until 1 am finishing the painting still that I could check off a stupid box in my dayplanner. He's the best one of the best ones.
Sunday morning we got up and started painting the camper (again. . . The painting never ends!) In an attempt to be green and also frugal we have decided not to turn the power on in the camper until we are living in it. That means the 90 + degree afternoons in Utah often require that we find other ways to work toward our camper life goal. This lovely Sunday led us to Ikea! We needed a couch/bed and quite a few other storage solutions. You guys, we spent 4.5 hours in Ikea. I love me some Ikea but that is an emotional event not many can endure. Half of that was spent testing couch softness and debating space on a couch vs space for storage. There was so much measuring and cursing the Universe for making standard couches 78 inches when we only have 76 inches of space. Then there were the dishes. You gotta have smaller drinking glasses, smaller plates, everything smaller. It was weird and emotional to be buying so many things in attempt to move toward being less consumerist and more minimalist.
I digress. When we got home it was obvious to me that we wouldn't be meeting our timeline goal to finish painting. I was a little bummed to say the least. Do you know what happened? My sweet sweet Richard stayed up until 1 am finishing the painting still that I could check off a stupid box in my dayplanner. He's the best one of the best ones.
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