I’m so excited to share my first two guest posts with you!
First, I had my first ever guest post published at Life As Mom last Friday: 5 Reasons Why Home Ownership May Not Be For You.
My husband & I are in the midst of trying to sell our home. In Michigan. We’ve wanted to sell it for years…and we only built it six years ago! Before we built, we were in the cheapest apartments in town. It wasn’t the greatest neighborhood (nothing like a big city, but annoying nonetheless)– the apartment was small and dark with a tub that wasn’t deep enough to cover my thighs. We couldn’t WAIT to get out.
Now we can’t wait to sell! Over the last 6 years, we have learned that home ownership isn’t (and probably shouldn’t be) for everyone.
To to Life as Mom to read the rest.
And I’m also a new contributor to CatholicMom.com and my first post was published today: Make a Simple House in Order to Simply Live.
We live in a huge house. It’s an average house for the current times (about 2200 sq. ft.). But historically speaking and throughout the world, it’s a huge house. Over the years (we only built it 6 years ago), we’ve talked about moving several times. Each time we’ve listed the house, we’ve sold hundreds of dollars worth of stuff on CraigsList and donated & given away just as much, if not more. And we still have more stuff left than I can possibly fit into a 900 sq. ft. apartment.
But I’ve noticed several things in this most frequent purge. We are getting down to the nitty gritty now & tough decisions need to be made. The last three times we’ve only missed 2 things – a book case and a garment bag. And the garment bag barely counts since we haven’t actually replaced it. We’ve been asking ourselves: Do we REALLY need this? Are we ever going to get into this expensive hobby again? What do we REALLY use and love?
Go to CatholicMom.com to read the rest…
I will be writing for Catholic Mom twice a quarter — a post about the home and a book review.
I also have more me…elsewhere fun in the making but will tell you about it when my first post goes live :).
