Toy Story

Moving house is supposed to be one of the most stressful experiences in your life.   Perhaps even more stressful if you're moving out of a house that is your significant other's childhood home, which has been in the family for about 50 years.  This also means it's acquired about 50 years worth of stuff.  Stuff on shelves, stuff in closets, stuff sitting in corners, and on the floor.  This stuff seems to be a bit of a point of contention.  We've actually even debated the merits of panda bear refrigerator magnets, which apparently have "sentimental value."

Everything in this house either has this so called sentimental value, or it has ebay value.  Which means we can't just trash anything.  So my job has become official ebay photographer.  I probably find this job a little more entertaining then I should.  I thought maybe you'd enjoy my photos too....

Husband, if you don't throw away this hideous brown vase I'm going to shoot you in the face.  NO it WILL NOT look good in a display case.

Maybe Captain Planet and his mullet can help us dispose of this junk in an environmentally friendly way?

Please pray for us.  Things are getting ugly around here....

Ironing Shirts

I now iron Nick's shirts.  I am becoming such a domestic diva!  I should join a group of dive (plural of diva according to Beyonce) and do diva-ish things with them.  

I started ironing Nick's shirts because I honestly didn't want to carry them to the dry cleaners.  It's like a 15 minute walk and those shirts are heavy.  What am I his woman slave?!  I think not.  So I did what any sensible walking hating American lazy housewife would do.  I ironed them myself.

This is a revelation to me.  I have ironed 16 shirts this week.  Each shirt costs 1.20 to press at the dry cleaners.  That means I have saved 19.2 pounds in total so far.  This is equal to $31.52.  Nick wears a shirt everyday to work so that comes to about 312 pounds a year or $512.33 a year at the current conversion rate.  Why didn't I think of this before?  With all this money I am saving I could go and buy myself a whole new diva wardrobe.  Beyonce will probably invite me to join her own personal dive because I am such a classy female version of a hustler.    

If you are missing my obscure pop-culture references this video might help : Diva by Beyonce.

Also if anyone has any other money saving revelations they would like to share with me by all means I'd love to hear them.