Ahh The Simple Name
10-19-13, 10:16pm
How It All Began. . .Two years ago, I started on an adventure in living more happily with much less – quite by accident! Since then, I’ve found that simple living has much to recommend it. Here’s my tale:
In September, 2011, my husband Rich and I put our 9-room, 4-1/2-bedroom, 2-1/2-bathroom house in Walpole, Massachusetts on the market because we wanted to downsize. What we really wanted was to not have to take care of so much property, pay to heat it, etc. Our plan was to buy a much smaller house in a neighboring town and remain there, hopefully happily, for the rest of our lives. We had a lot of stuff, especially because we’d been together for about 40 years and because I had been in the antiques business.
In December, we sold our house to a lovely young couple, put almost all of our furnishings and belongings into storage in our moving company’s warehouse, and moved to a very small one-bedroom apartment, also in Walpole. Before moving day, I had to decide exactly what we would need until we moved again into another house because the moving company’s warehouse insurance policy only allows for their own staff to be there.
You might expect that we would feel cramped going from such a large space to such a small one, but we didn’t. For one thing, I discovered I loved having our computer in the same room as our TV. When we lived in our house, we had our computer upstairs (where I spent a lot of time in the evenings) and the TV downstairs (where my husband liked to be) in the family room. It was a lonely arrangement. When we moved to the apartment, we had to have the computer and the TV in the same room. In fact, the main room served as living room, bedroom, dining room, and computer room. Rich and I loved it because we now were spending so much time, happily, in the same room.
Since I love to decorate, I was delighted to decorate our small apartment. Even with just a few of our things, I found I could make it quite comfortable and pleasing. Here’s a photo of our main room:
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In September, 2011, my husband Rich and I put our 9-room, 4-1/2-bedroom, 2-1/2-bathroom house in Walpole, Massachusetts on the market because we wanted to downsize. What we really wanted was to not have to take care of so much property, pay to heat it, etc. Our plan was to buy a much smaller house in a neighboring town and remain there, hopefully happily, for the rest of our lives. We had a lot of stuff, especially because we’d been together for about 40 years and because I had been in the antiques business.
In December, we sold our house to a lovely young couple, put almost all of our furnishings and belongings into storage in our moving company’s warehouse, and moved to a very small one-bedroom apartment, also in Walpole. Before moving day, I had to decide exactly what we would need until we moved again into another house because the moving company’s warehouse insurance policy only allows for their own staff to be there.
You might expect that we would feel cramped going from such a large space to such a small one, but we didn’t. For one thing, I discovered I loved having our computer in the same room as our TV. When we lived in our house, we had our computer upstairs (where I spent a lot of time in the evenings) and the TV downstairs (where my husband liked to be) in the family room. It was a lonely arrangement. When we moved to the apartment, we had to have the computer and the TV in the same room. In fact, the main room served as living room, bedroom, dining room, and computer room. Rich and I loved it because we now were spending so much time, happily, in the same room.
Since I love to decorate, I was delighted to decorate our small apartment. Even with just a few of our things, I found I could make it quite comfortable and pleasing. Here’s a photo of our main room:
Continue reading blog post here:
http://www.ahhthesimplelife.com/living-more-happily-with-much-less/ (http://www.ahhthesimplelife.com/living-more-happily-with-much-less/)