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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Comments (119)
TheCutestLizard 28
Do you want to trade? Having a large place isn't always what it's cracked up to be. The more space you have, the more stuff you accumulate and the more you have to clean!
TheCutestLizard 28
Amen!
Elle_ShellBelle 15
How would you like to live in the same bedroom you've had since you were 7 in a twin size bed with your mother on little mermaid sheets and have more in student loans than your bank account and no professional job growth to show for it? No? Then STFU and quit complaining.
Momo_Moonlight 25
Dude, I know exactly what that is like. Exactly the same situation for me!
SouthernP8nt 2
Since when does that mean your flat is small? I live in a large, four bedroom house, spread over 3 floors, and I can hoover the ground floor and 90% of the first floor from a single power socket. Centrally located socket, right by the staircase, and the hoover has a long cord. Does that somehow mean my place is small? No.
Ebolaconflict 11
I don't understand the Fml, it didn't shrink on you, it shouldn't be a suprise to you.
illegalbeagle69 23
Maybe your vacuum has a really long cord.. hmm?
kristat 14
You knew how small the place was when you signed the lease. Either start saving money for a bigger place (which may require cutting back on other expenses or finding additional employment) or be thankful that the only thing you have to complain about is its size. I once paid what I thought was a fortune for a tiny apartment with no parking, a landlord that spoke a different language than me, mold in the bathroom, paper thin walls and a neighbor who yelled at her cat and television all hours of the night. The week I moved out the carbon monoxide detector started going off so the landlord removed it altogether. Still, it was a good location hence the price.
pogue36 5
Sounds like where I live.
droidlover 14
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