I came off Facebook permanently a while back. Apparently, FB had an outage for several hours recently. That outage received more coverage than anything remotely newsworthy, yet I don’t think that anyone died from the outage.
I enjoyed some things about FB, and I think there are people who do truly good things via FB. Truth be told, I miss it at times. But I also felt like FB manipulated a lot of information and tried to squelch freedom of speech. I’m hoping that some people found relief in the lack of access to FB, perhaps found themselves with some time on their hands to live beyond social media.
I watch one particular person on YouTube regarding the frugal lifestyle and have learned some very good things from her. She and her husband live in France now, but they are from the UK. My introduction to the phrase "aggregation of marginal gains" came from her, and I read the story behind it. It was truly good and helpful. Look it up if you have time, it's really common sense laid out.
Most recently, she talked about some of the things that she and her husband did as they worked toward a debt-free life. Part of that included downsizing their home. I laughed pretty hard when she said that the first home they moved to after downsizing was what Americans call a "tiny house," but what they refer to in England as "a house." She's not wrong! Houses in the US are way too big. They suck up resources unnecessarily and, while I'm glad for anyone's success and for them having a beautiful home, I think excess in lifestyle is basically another type of gluttony.
Our home is very modest and was already 50 years old when we bought it. We had to put some money into it to make it livable, but I don't really spend money re-doing it or getting it refreshed and more 'up to date' aesthetically. There's not really any style or flow to it, but it's home and it feels like home. I do need to re-paint a couple of rooms and replace some tired, old, yucky rugs, but outside of that, it is what it is. If any remaining renovations don't get done before I die, then they didn't matter!
The next installment of the movie franchise "Halloween" comes out this weekend! We can stream it through one of our streaming services, so that is the plan for Saturday, when the cooldown blows in with rain in the forecast. Hazelnut coffee with pumpkin ice cream will do nicely for the viewing event. It's only Wednesday, and I'm beyond ready for the weekend! I've got to start thinking about Christmas presents, I've made zero progress in that area, literally.
Happy hump day to you, I'm headed to the kitchen for a refill of pumpkin spice coffee with butter cookie creamer and some cheese toast. May 5 p.m. roll around quickly so that we can get back to life after work!
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I grew up in a trailer that was 8 ft wide and 45 ft long..that's 360 sq ft. After that it was apartments we lived in. My first house after I got married was a brand new brick ranch 1200 sq feet. It had 3 bedrooms one bathroom and the open floor plan with kitchen living room and dining room in one open space. It had a full basement, but no garage. We had loads of room..I'd love having that home again IF it had another full bath, central air and a garage. I'm spoiled now and love those extras. With a basement 1200 sq feet is plenty of room. And we didn't fill it up with stuff either. Our biggest home has been 1450 sq feet, and it had a full basement with a 2 car garage in the basement and we had 3 full bathrooms in that house.It was almost perfect. The rooms felt spacious b/c of the open floor plan. I never realized the homes I lived in were considered small, LOL. When we were looking at buying 1800 sq feet I thought that was a large home...and 2200 sq feet seemed gigantic. Then I realized people thought of those as small houses...everything in life is relative apparently. I don't like big houses...too much work to clean, too much expense upfront and wasted space b/c it's more than a person needs which all too often is filled to the brim at which point people pack their garage full forcing themselves to park in the driveway. It's ridiculous imo. Any house can function well if a person makes an effort. AND the house is not as important as the location. A bad location is a curse. The most important feature of a home is peace, love and joy within the walls of that home.
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