Current Song - Roll With The Changes (REO Speedwagon)
I thought deeper about the rental property.
After talking with my brother Chris about it, he told me that the bills attached with the rent for one of his friends's places wasn't all that substantial. Needless to say, this gave me some more confidence in wanting to make a move on this rental.
Thinking about the rental came only after searching for a clothes dresser during a runaround at rummage sales. All of the area rummage sales yesterday didn't have a clothes dresser, but there was a small antique place in Dixon that had one I sort of liked. Six small drawers and a top that a placemat should fix - $69. The store had a 20% sale to knock this purchase to less than $60 after tax.
I have never shopped for a clothes dresser before, so I don't know what to expect with pricing. The department stores have those put-it-together-yourself pieces that I am really no good at. I think I'll be looking at the paper more for garage sales. Sterling/Rock Falls is supposed to have its second "garage sale days" of the year this coming weekend. It's too bad I'm working from 8-2 on Friday. So hopefully there will be a dresser on Saturday.
Once I get this dresser, I'll be able to work on cleaning my bedroom more. I could only get part of it done before breathing in quite a bit of dust. I moved by bed over to another side of the room, and bought new blinds for my windows.
There's a space that I'd like to put my dresser, and that leaves some wall space for tacking on some stuff (if I find more). Next up is trying to find a place that recycles old stereo systems, as I have two that are no longer in working order. This frees up shelf space for more books that I have lumped in a corner. This takes care of two of the four walls of my room.
Next up is another trip to the Walton Mart, as I completely forgot to get other things when I got the blinds. Plastic storage containers, a special bulb for this desk lamp that hasn't been used in a couple of years, and a white marker for my LED color-changing blackboard.
My old clothes dresser has fallen apart and only two drawers remain. I use these two for storing more stuff; one of them for all of my electronic equipment and its chargers. The other is just a mess.
To pretty much sum it all up, I'd like to transfer about half of my bedroom either into plastic storage containers, or garbage. So if I do wind up moving into the rental, there won't be so much to organize and move around.
Literally, my room could be stretched into a whole house.
Just finding the time to clean the room is a challenge between work and website.
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Off to the rental.
I drove by it last night and it didn't catch me until then that it had a small second-story level. And a deck in the back. I've been in the inside of it a couple of times, but the last time was a few years back.
Now it's just a matter of having the money to maintain all of this. As I mentioned a couple of entries ago, I need to set aside $175/week (24.5 hours/week) just to maintain living quarters. I just have to find a way to stretch the remainder of that, and at the same time add an additional source of income. The beginning necessities would simply come from savings.
When I was investing heavily into my website for a couple of years (until three months ago), much of my paycheck went to that. I'd simply be reverting myself to that kind of life once more.
The more I see it, there are many "wins" for me in this:
1. I don't do a good job with keeping things clean (as you may have noticed with this entry), so this gives me an incentive to start cleaning regularly. As I mentioned thoughout these past few months, I'm trying to fix myself to make it better. This is a start.
2. I rarely mow the lawn at home because either dad, Mike or Chris does it. I'll have to mow my own lawn.
3. Laundry.
4. Fiscal responsibility.
4 1/2. Less use of the car and more walking, riding, etc.
5. Possibly putting myself in a position to feel the pinch to find a second job. Or work harder at my first.
6. I can learn to cook.
7. I can learn about maintenance. Basically saying, this living quarters is a classroom laboratory.
8. (And perhaps most importantly) I will be living by myself, where no one can disturb me, where no one can ask me for computer time, where no one can question what I do and how I do things, and such-and-such. That is, unless I allow company - and company is always welcome (which gives me an incentive to point No. 1).
This is the bachelor pad.
Until she comes into my life.
Which reminds me, I need to fix up my bedroom to something like this:
And add in a champagne bar as well.
With music like this in the background:
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