Defenestrating Thoughts from the Bivouac

Crissy’s and my apartment is a mess. Not a mess like with dirt and garbage everywhere, but a mess where all our stuff is ridiculously disorganized. It’s probably because our rooms are over-purposed. Our second bedroom is my office, the guest room, Crissy’s painting studio, Crissy’s office and storage. The dining room is a dining room, library (has half my collection), Crissy’s jewelry business studio, and additional kitchen storage.

And it certainly doesn’t help that we added a bunch more stuff from my little sister (when she moved out of her college apartment) and all of our camping stuff is still out from our Memorial Day trip.

So we decided to reorganize everything and move a lot of the furniture around. Now the dining room will become Crissy’s painting and jewelry studios, Crissy’s office, and part of the library. The second bedroom is the guest room, my office, the storage, and the area we need for the non-creative parts of Crissy’s business (packing, shipping, paperwork).

If you read closely you’ll notice that we no longer have a “dining room”, which sort of stinks. But, it turned out that this was the one function of the room we used the least. We’ve been talking about renting a bigger apartment or a house soon, so it should all work out.

Once all the cleaning is under control I plan to do another round of eBay-ing stuff we don’t need. I call it eBay Cost Recovery, since you are usually just getting a fraction of the original cost back. Last time, I did this I made back $600. I think this time I could pass $750. Hopefully this will free up a bunch of space.

Once this is done, it’ll be time to get Crissy’s jewelry business launched on the web. Up, up and away!