lisa from rochester's Profile

We have a very small kitchen and struggled with storage until we did 2 important things. First, we divided all of our kitchen tools, dishes, etc into 2 categories, use weekly and don't use weekly. Use weekly lives in the kitchen. Don't use weekly live in inexpensive, but easy to access cabinets in the basement. Second, we paid attention to what kind of food we actually used on a weekly/monthly basis and how much. We were over buying and keeping food forever. Once we started just purchasing what we needed on a weekly basis, keeping only regularly used staples, spices, oils, etc on hand, we had more than enough room.

We got rid of cable about 6 months ago. We kept a basic service to get the local channels, and stream netflix and hulu on a Roku. Taking the cost of those three servcies into account we saved over $120/month. Crazy! We haven't looked back! We do have to be much more thoughtful about our TV viewing. You can spend hours on mindless channel cruising - a very good thing!

lovely! unlike many AT tours, it looked like an actual home!

Switch rooms with your toddler, you on the bottem floor, him on the top, and really work on getting him to stay in his room all night. Take if from a mom who wishes she had put more effort into getting her child to sleep by themselves, in their own room.

I love the outside shower! I normally love white walls, but these look very cold and uninviting.