Mental Health Support

I finally put the living room off limits to hubs. We keep a baby gate up to keep the dog from getting in there (since he ate 3 remote controls last time he was in the room!). But the carpet was really bad when we moved in, and we don't have the money to replace it. So, after being so ashamed of it these 2 years we've lived here, I'm now attempting to pull it up and trash it. Luckily, it looks like we've got decent hardwood floor underneath. But man, what a project!!!! I didn't think it'd be nearly this hard to do. Was I surprised!

I do exactly what you said in your reply to my bedroom. And it's always clean and presentable. The kitchen, too, for the most part. As long as I make it a habit of cleaning up as I'm cooking.

Our problem started when we moved from a 3800 sq ft house down to an 1800 sq ft house. There's just too much "stuff", even with everything I've already either thrown out or donated. And every other day it seems like I find there's something I'm missing that we left behind at one of our moves. If only we had a few thousand dollars I'd pump it into this house to make changes in room size, or whatever. But you end up with what you can afford at the time; never realizing that rehabbing a house is truly a young person's game.