A Continuation and Some Progress

So we're on week two without internet now. Thankfully we only have to wait until Thursday to watch trashy TV both on our TV's and our laptops. This no TV no internet thing makes us both extremely productive and extremely bored. Mostly it makes R and me very irritable. My only guilty pleasure is in thinking that at least having far less distractions IN the house, will motivate R to find a job ASAP. Does that make me a bad girlfriend?


Anyways.

On a more useful subject, here are somethings you may want to consider to either buy (If this is the first time on your own) or bring with you from your old place to your new place. If you already have these things, I would highly suggest putting them all in one box and having that as the first box you bring over and unpack. Trust me, I know this from personal (and very recent experiance).

1. Toilet paper. Seriously. If you don't live by a 24h store this is especially key. Particularily if you are going to be staying there the first night. Waking up at 4am with a full bladder and not a stitch of the stuff in your house leaves you with very few (and mostly disturbing) options.

2. Pillows! Yes, I did almost forget to bring them.

3. Towels. Because otherwise your morning shower will end with you using a blowdryer for something its not meant for.

4. A PLUNGER. I'm speaking to my fellow 1 bathroom (1 toilet) apartment owners here. Especially if you say, "We've been pretty lucky, I just realized we don't have a plunger, haha! Toilets don't get clogged that much anyways, we won't need one." the night before. Needless to say...we have a plunger now.

5. Wash cloth for dishes, dish soap, dishwasher soap, hand soap, and laundry soap. So pretty much just SOAP in general. Sure you could go a couple days without laundry soap, we did. We even went without hand soap (just using the dish soap). Our new appliances came with 4 uses of very expensive pre-packaged dish soap which we used up before buying more (cheaper) soap. The dish soap is important though if you plan on eating ever. Because your appliances may or may not be hooked up yet, and if you have a small group of people (like me...theres just 2) you will not need the dishwasher for much. You can use it to pre-wash dishes, wipe down counters and even clean your bathroom if it needs it.

6. Dish towel(s). See above. You gots to dry stuff too y'know.

7. Front door mat. This may seem like a frivolous item to put in your "important stuff" box, but in our case it was necessary for our sanity. This is mostly because we opted for hardwood instead of carpet as our standard flooring and they would not let us cut it off and put lino in the entranceway (like they did with the carpet). Moving stuff in and out in the snow and muck would've ruined our floors without the entrance mat. SIDE NOTE: I graduated with a degree in Interior Design and spent one of my summers as a student in a hardwood flooring showroom. Rule one - don't put hardwood anywhere that it will come into prolonged contact with moisture. Obviously most people don't put it in there bathrooms for this reason, it will swell under the moisture and heat, and it will cup, ruining your beautiful floors. Entranceways should be a hearty, moisture resistant, scratch resistant, easy to clean surface because it is a high traffic area where we bring all our outside grime inside. Hardwood may be easier to clean than carpet, but it still not scratch resistant or moisture resistant. NEVER put carpet in an entryway if you can avoid it. Hardwood and laminate being second on the list of don'ts, and tile or lino being top of my list of do's. We also were forced into hardwood in the kitchen which is so not ideal. End rant.

8. Mugs. Now this one is sort of a personal one. Mugs are very important fo Robin and I as we both have a fair bit of family who live within 10 minutes drive, not to mention quite a few friends who not only enjoy, but expect...tea. We forgot our mugs the first day. My friend Krystyn had to drink out of the one Carleton University mug R had brought and his sister Riki had to drink out of a travel cup. We're classy. We have mugs now.

9. "Pancake flipper". Some people call them spatulas, I call spatulas "spatulas". I called flippers pancake flippers. I don't know why. I'd like to see you try to make breakfast in the new frying pan you just bought, without one. P.S. Dollar stores are life savers.

10. A chairs or chairs. If you do not yet have furniture, OR you are moving in in stages and have not brought anything other than your mattress over and plan to stay the night...bring a chair. Where will you sit? I know it sounds stupidly obvious, but you forget about this stuff!!!


Thats about it for now I guess. Enjoy your weekends people :).