I can’t believe 2 months have gone by so fast. Babci is coming home from Poland this Saturday and we’re all looking forward to her return. She may even come home to a bathroom that doesn’t have rotten+moldy shower walls, a tub that drains and a new non-stained toilet that has a toilet seat without a big crack down the side of it. My friend always said the seat would pinch her in the butt when she sat on it. What a naughty seat that was. It never pinched me or Babci’s rear, so perhaps it only hit on single girls.
I spent most of Sunday cleaning her house. It was dust covered from top to bottom because of the sanding and sheet rocking we’ve been doing. Although the job stunk, it was very interesting going from room to room and seeing her resourcefulness here there and everywhere. Money Crush believes that one of the keys skills to having extra money is follow through. Here are a few examples of where Babci had a need and followed through with a simple yet practical solution to her problem at hand. I meant to take some pictures, but this post would never go out if I did.
- A kitchen chair leg that was screwed back together with a drywall screw
- The kitchen table that was also screwed together.
- An oriental rug from a tag sale that was cut into several smaller area rugs
- A bed that sat too high so she jimmy’d a little platform on out of wood on the floor to lower it down.
- A comforter made from several sewn together blankets from tag sales.
- A bunch of kitty litter and spackle buckets that she uses for cleaning or moving veggies in and out of the garden.
- Duvets sewn together from sheets bought at yard sales.
- A towel that she bolted onto a mop head to use to mop the floor.
- The Ritz Cracker Tin that she uses to store flour.
- The countless recycled glass jars from salsa and pickles and sauces.
- Dishcloths made from cut up old towels
- She also has several sewing projects in mid repair. She often buys stuff that doesn’t fit at yard sales and alters them to fit her 5’2″ frame. I also left her my own pile of holey outfits to fix upon her return.
As an aside, having a family member that sews is like having a cat. There are always little threads that get on and into everything. I don’t know how she can stand it. The house as of now is thread and fabric scrap free. I’m sure that will last about 5 milliseconds.
It’s interesting because I’ve bought her rugs that weren’t ratty in the past and she has replaced them with these scraps and tried giving me back the original rugs. I guess to her rugs are a functional, not a decorative floor covering. She has these scraps in her hallway because she can just chuck it when it gets too ratty and replace it with another hunk of scrap. If something’s too nice, she worries about ruining it and wasting money. I have to just let her use her towel mops and realize she’s happy with the system she devised for herself.
We’ve been fighting over getting her a new bed as well. She claims she loves her mattress. It’s about 14 years old and because she weighs over 250 pounds, it’s really taken a beating. Sometimes I struggle with when I should just buy something for her because she needs it, vs just letting her decorate in her own way. I may have to put my foot down on the bed though.
Does anyone want a picture tour of the inside of Babci’s house?
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