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I've figured it out. I want to live in an apartment/condo because I hate taking care of a large space and an outdoors area. I don't like gardening, really, and yard work sucks. We have a very nice Yoshino cherry tree, a nice Japanese dwarf maple, and two lovely gardenias, plus the disheveled herb garden. I'd miss the trees and gardenias. Herbs I can grow in pots in the window/on the balcony.
Our HOA is up our noses about our grass all the time, and they sent us a nastygram about our mailbox recently. I've been on Ben about replacing it for a while, but he's always like "no, it can wait; I don't want to replace it until it's completely destroyed" (and the mailbox falls off and lands on my mum or azalea or something and kills it, yay thanks dear). And of course right now isn't a very good time to add yet more expenses.
I just don't want to deal with maintenance and upkeep of the outside of a house, or deal with cleaning a 2100-sq ft (195 m^2) house. Just vacuuming took a little over an hour yesterday, and I didn't touch two of the rooms (my sewing room and the bonus room which, as I mentioned, is piled high with stuff that Needs To Fucking Go NOW). I got up a good bit of cat hair, more than could be generated in a week, which gives me hope that weekly vacuuming is actually going to make a difference in cat hair levels.
I've figured it out. I want to live in an apartment/condo because I hate taking care of a large space and an outdoors area. I don't like gardening, really, and yard work sucks. We have a very nice Yoshino cherry tree, a nice Japanese dwarf maple, and two lovely gardenias, plus the disheveled herb garden. I'd miss the trees and gardenias. Herbs I can grow in pots in the window/on the balcony.
Our HOA is up our noses about our grass all the time, and they sent us a nastygram about our mailbox recently. I've been on Ben about replacing it for a while, but he's always like "no, it can wait; I don't want to replace it until it's completely destroyed" (and the mailbox falls off and lands on my mum or azalea or something and kills it, yay thanks dear). And of course right now isn't a very good time to add yet more expenses.
I just don't want to deal with maintenance and upkeep of the outside of a house, or deal with cleaning a 2100-sq ft (195 m^2) house. Just vacuuming took a little over an hour yesterday, and I didn't touch two of the rooms (my sewing room and the bonus room which, as I mentioned, is piled high with stuff that Needs To Fucking Go NOW). I got up a good bit of cat hair, more than could be generated in a week, which gives me hope that weekly vacuuming is actually going to make a difference in cat hair levels.
