Kandyce78's Profile

I am Gen X and I garden, but I don't spend much money on it. This year, I spent $60 on my garden. I only have a small raised bed and a handful of pots and I'm only interested in growing edibles right now (okay, okay, I have a lily plant). We rent, and are going to have to tear out our lovely raised bed with soil that makes me proud this fall before we move in the spring. I think the real question in the garden industry should be is how do we capitalize on what Gen X and Y are interested in, container gardening, affordable, easy to care for plants, a little bit of the urban farmer thought, and a little nostalgia (someday, when I have a home, I will plant a peony bush). I must be honest, I garden mainly for nostalgia (I grew up on a farm and we had a half-acre garden and an orchard), and the elusive perfect tomato. I'm not good at gardening, and since I fail a lot, I don't want to sink a lot of money into a venture that doesn't have a fabulous outcome, veggie wise. But my spring salads and fresh thyme always make my kitchen a little happier.

I answer my parents phone when I'm at their home. Every other place on the planet, I absolutely do not answer the phone. I simply hate answering phones, so I avoid it at all costs.

Shipping containers frequently become housing for troops while on deployment. I think anyone who has had to live in one of these in the desert with no insulation would shy away from living in one at home, no matter how nicely appointed.

As soon as I get home, I am barefoot. But I wear Five Fingers 80% of the time I leave the house, so there's that. I hatehatehate having my toes scrunched together and I have boat feet (11 WW), so shoes and I have a problematic relationship.

One of the things I enjoy about Apartment Therapy is that every day I see a new idea or technique. That said, I do also like some of the negative comments. If the paint you used is truly toxic, I would like to keep that in consideration if I think of doing a similar project, also if the paint does leach into the floor, I'd like to know that also. Sometimes I see a DIY project that I think is ugly, and seeing a comment that says so lets me know that my taste is shared with others. I believe in being kind, but posts that aren't all sunshine and rainbows are learning opportunities. We present ourselves in a very whitewashed way online, and it is helpful for your readers to have potential negatives listed.

I'm excited and bummed that rustic farmhouse is becoming so popular. Excited because it's totally my style. Bummed because I'm afraid that when I get my house together it will look like a dated trend.

That would be awesome, except for when my husband and I will be separated we will be separated by around 12 time zones, so we will be sleeping on opposite schedules of each other.

He won me over at MacGyver.

We have a Nook and several bookshelves filled with books, mostly unattractive paperbacks. I like both, but since the Nook is my husbands, I read mostly paper books. And we still don't have enough space for all of the books we bought at Borders going out of business sale. We move semi frequently but we haven't even managed to pare down the double copies of books that both my husband and I bought before we got married. I don't even think I buy books that frequently, recent acquisitions notwithstanding.
Anyway, we use ereaders and will continue to do so, but physical books will never leave our home.

The rich red velvet takes that living room from stark and imposing to lush and inviting! I was just thinking today how I may never get away from white walls and that's okay by me even though I LOVE color!