making room

I am on a mission.
There is nothing that is a more effective motivator for me than a deadline .. and I have one in May!

I have to look at everything in the house and decide if it really belongs where it is and whether we need it or whether something else could do the job better.

We purchased a second fridge and a freezer for downstairs. The freezer will replace the 30 year old one that we were given by Unis family. Uni remembers looking up at the freezer when he was a little kid.

Hopefully by replacing this freezer we will also get rid of the short circuiting problem that sets off our safety switch and shuts off power in the middle of the night at a frequency of about once a month.

If it doesn't fix the problem I will be going after the heaters in the fish tank as the next probable culprit.

The downstairs fridge and freezer will help us to stock up on food and store it effectively so that we don't have to keep everything upstairs in our current fridge.

At the moment our fridge is full to the brim from Sunday to about Wednesday and then slowly empties from Thurs to Saturday.

I used to get around this problem by market shopping on Sunday and spacing out my other shopping (Aldi and WW) over a couple days, but it started to feel like I was shopping all week and I kind of like having days when I don't have to go out anywhere.

I believe it will be hard and not very desirable for me to go shopping a lot with a new baby in tow ... or an older baby or even a toddler for that matter, so I think I will try to stock up on the days that I do go shopping and reduce the number of shopping trips.

Will take some organization but I think I will get there.

Uni has also suggested we buy a free standing pantry to put downstairs as well with the fridge and freezer ... because quite frankly I have been stocking up on non cold items and our upstairs pantry is a nightmare!!!

Absolutely full at all times and things are impossible to find!

I am loving the idea of an extra pantry ... maybe even two or three ... LOL!!!

I have to clear out the computer room and distribute its contents all over the rest of the house.

The linen cupboard will get an overhaul too because a lot of stuff is just stored in there haphazardly and these days any space upstairs is prime real estate and definitely not to be wasted!

In this vein of thought, I vacuumed the top of my wardrobe and will wrap up my keyboard and its stand and store them up there.

There are a lot of things I do not want to let go of, but having things out on display and ready to use at a moments notice hasn't really worked.

Uni wants me to find a place for the vacuum cleaner (I think he trips over it where it is) and I am thinking that maybe I should put away the ironing board too (at least every now and then).

Sure hope there is room for these things in the cleaned out linen cupboard!

We also have to find places for the computer and mine and uni's desk.

He wants the computer to go downstairs, that really won't suit me at all. He has suggested that we get a laptop for me. I am just not sure. More expense and I am already kind of attached to the current computer.

I don't want it to go downstairs where there is potential for flooding, Bella mischief and where I am unlikely to be able to spend much time using it (especially at night when the rest of the family will be upstairs).

I am not completely averse to the idea of a laptop .... just not sure ...although it seems to be common these days that people each have their own computer not a shared one.

Uni wants to get Kt a laptop of her own too when she is old enough to need it.

Yikes .... more expenses.....