tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1809582401560791905.post8123831789190336924..comments2024-01-11T01:17:44.605-08:00Comments on So Not Zen: Downsize vs. downgradeShanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09332633230214817022noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1809582401560791905.post-81426799413537780492009-06-08T08:57:13.130-07:002009-06-08T08:57:13.130-07:00Downsizing sounds great - I admire how responsible...Downsizing sounds great - I admire how responsible and all you're being.<br /><br />Change is scary!<br /><br />Aren't I helpful? Next time you need some cliches, just let me know.Keethahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10391755322320140235noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1809582401560791905.post-28119705491813532252009-06-06T05:53:58.998-07:002009-06-06T05:53:58.998-07:00I just moved into my dream house -- the one that w...I just moved into my dream house -- the one that we spent five years planning -- and I've been fantasizing about what kind of retirement home we'll build in 25 years. I am not kidding. I love my new house but I am already thinking about downsizing significantly after the girls grow up.Jen on the Edgehttp://www.jenontheedge.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1809582401560791905.post-59875014339400385702009-06-05T22:07:06.551-07:002009-06-05T22:07:06.551-07:00Yours is the house I long for right now, to entert...Yours is the house I long for right now, to entertain better.<br /><br />But there's always that discussion right?Lisa Wheeler Miltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07386193798727387546noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1809582401560791905.post-19615731534661616562009-06-05T09:26:49.498-07:002009-06-05T09:26:49.498-07:00Well, we ARE downsizing (for now), but it's go...Well, we ARE downsizing (for now), but it's going to cost a mint because it involves moving to another fucking country and having to make life again from scratch. Most of our furniture we will attempt to sell (and buy anew in the proportions appropriate to the size of rooms, etc.), and some STUFF will be coming with us, but I am going to think long and hard about those papers from second grade and the umpteen yearbooks full of people to whom (without Facebook) I would never even give a second thought.<br /><br />But some of the baby stuff will be hard--I can't really choose between the blanket my MIL made and the blanket one of my dad's patients made. Gah. I want to wake up in September when it's all done and see how it turned out--I don't want to do it.OneTiredEmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12786020912408441766noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1809582401560791905.post-15782506549226453452009-06-04T20:30:06.485-07:002009-06-04T20:30:06.485-07:00I need you to keep that house so I can live in it ...I need you to keep that house so I can live in it vicariously, since I do the same bipolar self-talk about our house here on the east side.<br /><br />Sorry I won't be of any help at all...stephaniehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04257126641387033673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1809582401560791905.post-60960432222079385652009-06-04T16:11:22.705-07:002009-06-04T16:11:22.705-07:00I can't freaking spell today! I meant to say y...I can't freaking spell today! I meant to say you'll hate living in a townhouse, not have. oyKathynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1809582401560791905.post-16435073119846370782009-06-04T16:09:34.035-07:002009-06-04T16:09:34.035-07:00Sure you can do it. You can downsize, live a simp...Sure you can do it. You can downsize, live a simpler life yet a very full and exciting one too. And you don't have to get rid of the stuff that's important to you. Look at my little house...and look at the size of parties I throw, yes? I think they're sort of fabulous(although maybe my guests are lying to me and hate coming over, though I doubt it). I think you'll have a townhouse-they are just bigger apartments with people living on top of each other. uckKathynoreply@blogger.com