Today, I realized how tiny my apartment is, when I was able to vacuum from bedroom to bathroom through the living room without switching the power outlet from the one in the kitchen. I pay a fortune to live in this shoebox. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, I finally finished vacuuming my downstairs. Instead of finding the wall outlet and unplugging the vacuum, I triumphantly tugged the cord from across the room to release the plug from the wall. It flew at me at top speed and hit me in the face. FML
Today, I walked into my bedroom and realized I really needed to clean it. As I started to pick everything up off of the floor, I tripped over a shoe, slipped on a water bottle, pulled down my shoe rack, and landed in my armoire. My room is now dirtier than it was when I started. FML
Today, I took a good look, and I mean a really good look around the house and I realized that if I simply threw away all my wife’s useless crap she bought and hasn’t used in years, or even unwrapped from the plastic, we could probably move into a smaller, cheaper house. FML
Today, I got round to organizing my apartment, sorting everything into boxes and shelves. However, due to my arbitrary sorting method, I now can't find everyday things because they're not in their usual place (in a clutter on my desk), including the charger cable I used five minutes ago. My place looks organized. My life does not. FML
Today, I saw the blueprints for my family's new house. My room is half the size of the room next to it. The room next to it is my step mom's walk-in closet. FML
Today, I wanted to clean my house. Of course the vacuum cleaner got stuck behind furniture multiple times. After the fifth time or so, I gave it a good pull. Now my vacuum cleaner is broken and the socket is off the wall. FML
Today, after a month of living in a pigsty of an apartment with my roommates, I spent the day cleaning the place out. When everyone returned home, instead of thanking me, all they could do was point out the spots I'd missed. FML
Today, with words of encouragement from my mom, I vacuumed my room. After finishing and admiring my job well done, I went to put the vacuum away. It caught on the plug for my electric razor which was dangling below the dresser and yanked that and everything else that was on top of it off. FML
Today, I finally moved into my own flat - no family, nor messy flatmates. Should be great, except for the fact that I'm so short, I have to climb onto the counter in the kitchen any time I want to reach my shelves. Like a child. I'm going to break my fucking neck. FML
Today, I realized that my flatmate showers so little that the furniture she uses smells like BO. FML
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Pleonasm 36
You're paying for the luxury of not having to switch power outlets. You know how bothersome that is? And how costly it is to provide?
NewYorkMexPR 14
At least you have a place to live in
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Sir_drink_alot 20
Are you close to a train station? I live in a shoebox, but it's in the heart of the city, close to transport and everything I need. I am quite happy with my expensive shoebox. You will miss that shoebox when you have a family and have to travel an hour each day to get to work. Really you will
iluvpeanutbutter 22
That's true. I lived in a pretty small studio apartment while settling into a new city, and its location was awesome! Close to work, a big mall, supermarkets, farmers market, you name it. Only had to walk for about 300m to get a good coffee. Ahh, bliss. Now, I'm in a 2 bedroom house in suburbia and spend all my time cleaning the damn thing.
Kk_Waylen24 21
At least you don't live in the streets!
born_hustla 26
Welcome to NY!
SneezyC 15
Wait, did I read wrong or misinterpret this wrong, cause the way OP makes it seem, is that there is carpet in the bathroom. 0.o Hmm.
Charryboo 11
Some people vacuum the bathroom floor for hair and fine dust, its a lot easier to vacuum then try and sweep. :)
AlexiAwesome 10
Well, you're still living :)
alison98hp 8
NYC?
ozpunker 20
I have a 4 bedroom house. I can do the same with only 1 plug change.
bbpgrs 7
be thankful for having a home
chuckcloninger 12
New York or San Francisco?
paulbrec 11
Major city? Not surprised.