Mobile Home Goddess

[lesa]

Nice job with the pantry. We converted the hall closet to a pantry as well. I can't imagine how I could use the kitchen without that extra space. You are really going to enjoy that! All your talents are really paying off. What a beautiful home!

 

[Carol Dee]

I was a Daddy's girl and he never told me You can't....... So I grew up thinking I can do anything.

You Go Girl.

 

[ninnymary]

I didn't have a dad so maybe that explains it. Never saw anyone doing handyman type of stuff. But my mom always did encouraged me to go get an education and to be strong. I'm strong in many ways just not handy.

Mary

 

[thistlebloom]

Mary if we were all super handy what would our husbands do?
They NEED us to give them a sense of purpose, and that warm satisfaction that only comes from changing light bulbs.

 

[Carol Dee]

Mary if we were all super handy what would our husbands do?
They NEED us to give them a sense of purpose, and that warm satisfaction that only comes from changing light bulbs.

 

[goatgurl]

I've been gone for a few days and started catching up on your thread. you've come a long way bbgirl and everything is looking great. I'm willing to bet your mom is going to settle in just fine. i moved my mom from her home of 50 years, away from her friends down here to live with me and she did great. i was very careful to let her keep her dignity and didn't try to do everything for her, let her continue to make her own decisions, help with everything and in essence just continue her life the way she wanted to. i was amazed at how quickly i became the child again in her mind, its tuff to be 12 when you're 50+.
well after reading the last 5 or so pages I'm exhausted so I'm going to bed. take care of yourself, you won't be any good to anyone if you fall out from exhaustion

 

[Just-Moxie]

Serious pantry envy here

In all of my adult years...I have learned to "want" the luxuries in life. A pantry. A garage. A basement.
Anything else....is extra

 

[baymule]

We've never had a basement, giving up the 2 car garage (full of stuff, can't get car in it) and going to doublewide set up on 8 acres. Nothing. Else. Have bought and had set up a carport, racing the clock to get a small fence set up, and "invented" a pantry.

Property we sold has a portable building on it that we can't get to, to empty it out, much less move it. It is too muddy. Praying for sunshine.

@moxies_chickienuggets maybe instead of trying to "save" some of your room additions, you would be better to just tear them down. It would reduce your taxes and you can't use those rooms in their present state anyway. Weigh it up between time, energy and money to save them or just rip them down. Keep the rooms you want and need, to heck with the rest. Just a thought.

 

[ninnymary]

Mary if we were all super handy what would our husbands do?
They NEED us to give them a sense of purpose, and that warm satisfaction that only comes from changing light bulbs.

haha

Mary

 

[bobm]

My wife was an only child and daddy's girl as his shaddow... she " helped" him fix cars, change light bulbs, work in their garden, feed and water chickens, etc. . After she graduated from a University with a degree in Animal Science ( she wanted to become a Veterinarian ) we met and got married and lived in 6 seperate homes that I built then on a farm where I built our home, barns and had a horse business. Do you think that she would even change a light bulb or garden or feed and water the chickens and rabbits, sheep or the horses. Nope ! However She is a , a great mother of 3 and now a grandmother of 6, a great cook, a fabulous ( she has a photografic memory ) business auditor, and a book worm.