Replacing the much lamented 'On My Mind' profile option, this thread is for musings, jottings, whimsies, preoccupations and the rest of the thesaurus for anyone to jot down anything they please.
I can't remember what the maximum character count was before, can anyone else? But anyway it wasn't very many so let's keep to that.
I agree that it’s crazy! Real estate has skyrocketed. So has the price of cars!
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You mentioned Philly area. I have to ask you what is your favorite place to get a Philly cheesesteak sandwich? Every place has their own special sandwich. Ours is a poboy or a muffaletta.
One bedroom , one bath . She moved out a year ago and moved in her fiancés condo . He charges her much cheaper rent . Lol.
Our kids are paying so much more for everything than we ever did at their age.
How many bedrooms? Two bedrooms are at least $2000 here. My daughter only has one bedroom and one bathroom.
New Orleans is unique. Interesting history, a melting pot of people. Each neighborhood has its own vibe.
Great people, hospitality, food and music. We do have our share of crime just like many other cities.
Shotguns don’t have hallways either. It’s one room right behind each other with a center door.
They were built on narrow lots. Some are single residences. Others are doubles. Some people have converted the doubles into one larger single.
My daughter is in a double so she has a neighbor on the other side of the house.
Your attic sounds adorable! I am so glad my own daughter is out experiencing life in rentals now - great to look back on 😍
I used to live near some 1960s highrise public housing flats (known as the towers). Guess they were modern & nice when built - a solution for mass low income housing at the time.
Now those folk (Housos) have their rent subsided flats, along side the new 'luxury' private owned towers with marble benchtops etc. Same size. Same view. I often wonder if future people will look back & say wow, those 'Housos' had marble kitchens!!
That was a fantastic movie! Love Sidney Poitier! Such an incredible actor.
Hey, one of my favorite rentals when I was single and on a budget was this fabulous converted attic. It was in a great neighborhood! I don’t need a lot of space. I didn’t own much, just my bicycle, stereo system and tons of albums. Those were my free spirit days!
I got a kitten when I lived there. It was perfect for just the two of us! My kitten was an ideal roommate 😊.
Get this, my rental was furnished with gorgeous antique furniture, also including a television set, a comfy claw foot bathtub, all for $75 a month. This was in the 70’s.
My daughter is paying around a $1000 a month which in her neighborhood is very reasonable. She was willing to give up space for location.
She loves being able to walk everywhere. It’s extremely dog friendly. She brings her dog with her to the coffee shop on the corner. She has a Whole Foods grocery right across the street. There’s Audubon park within walking distance. It’s a great section of the city.
One mention of snow in New Orleans and suddenly that image from the cemetary popped to mind. Weird how our brains file things away over the course of our lives, then can instantly pull it right out of wherever it was filed!
Anyway the whole family lived in one of these railway flats.
While our city didn't have these on mass, I believe a few may have existed. My own little 'worker's cottage' inner city rental did have a hallway. This meant every room was very narrow! The bedroom just fit the bed only - used the next room as wardrobe/study/storage.
I can understand your daughter Need! Yet bubs & burbs happened to me.. LOL. Loved that time.
I am not familiar with railroad flat architecture. I will have to look those up online to see the similarities in comparison to the construction of our shotguns here.
It’s called a shotgun house because if you shoot a shotgun in the house the bullet will go through all of the rooms. The houses were built on narrow lots and so the rooms are one behind the other.
Ooooooh, yes! Turn her bedroom into your she shed!
No one uses their formal living rooms as living rooms anymore. I know lots of people who now use them as an office space.
I walk with my daughter when she walks her dog. She walks from where she lives. Magazine St. area to St. Charles Avenue where all the old mansions are and drools over those houses! They are beautiful homes.
Eventually, she is going to move back to Denver. She fell in love with Colorado and she is still going strong in her long distance relationship.
She is flying to Denver to meet his mom for Christmas. His dad lives in Rhode Island. He grew up in Massachusetts but when his parents divorced his mom moved to Colorado.
He has visited New Orleans a lot to see her. We met him and like him.
shot gun house ? Why did they call it that ?
We are burb . Always were. But both DH and my parents grew up in the city .
She is renting a really cute but small home in uptown New Orleans. The house was built in 1930. It is a one bedroom/one bath shotgun house without any closets! So, she had to purchase organizers.
She will not sacrifice location for a larger place to live. I don’t blame her. She’s young and doesn’t want to live in the burbs.
My daughter’s old room needed to be painted. I figured I’ll make it a she shed for me . ( DH has his office that used to be the old formal living room , plus he is in total control of the TV remote in the family room . Lol. ). I was going to totally change up her room then I didn’t have the heart to do it. She still stays overnight sometimes . So I did paint it a similar color , but a darker more teal color . Got new bedding and grown up wall hanging over the bed , but I sort of kept my daughter’s taste in mind . I go in there to read , and her room has the best of of the mountain .
My cat loves it in there , she sits in the afternoon sun in her hammock .
Some are really pretty. My cousin converted an adjoining bedroom into a massive walk in closet. She has a sitting area in it where she sips a glass of wine while figuring out what to wear! LOL 😆
She is a huge clothes horse though. Oh my gosh! She spends a fortune on clothes, shoes and purses. High quality designer brands.
I wouldn’t have converted a bedroom because I think it will hurt resale value of her home. She doesn’t care about that. She loves her massive closet!
I have a walk in closet but mine isn’t fancy either.
Some closets are so pretty now with chandeliers and a place to sit and it all matches !! Mine isn’t big enough for that and nothing matches .
Yes, now we have huge walk in closets for our clothing! We can place furniture inside of the closet to organize items.
My grandmother didn’t have a closet in her bedroom. She had a large cedar wardrobe.
She only had three casual weekday dresses that she rotated throughout the week and three church dresses that she rotated on Sundays. One robe and a couple of nightgowns.
She was perfectly content and never desired to have a ton of clothes.
Grandpa was a carpenter, so he had his work clothes and his dress clothes for church.
My grandmother never owned pants! She only wore dresses. She wore pearls on Sunday. She liked small polka dots and small prints, preferably a floral design.
I loved my grandfather’s derby hats! I wish men still wore those. My husband wears baseball caps and knit hats in the winter. When he dresses up he doesn’t wear a hat. I like the way men dressed up back in the day!
Funny you should say that , I’ve been rearranging my closet for that very reason . I’m tired of taking clothes out of plastic bins and switching . I bought small cheap dresser to put in the closet .
I remember when I was a child our seasons were distinct. They aren’t distinct anymore.
There were no walk in closets when I was a child. We had small closets, so mom would pack away off season clothes in her cedar chest. When the season would change again, she would rotate the clothing again.
Nowadays, it’s hot one day and cold the next! We wear clothes that are suitable for all kinds of weather all year round!
Our parents were frugal with their money. They didn’t spend a fortune on our clothes like parents do now.
I am sure the smaller closets helped with not overspending too. I had my school uniforms, play clothes and church clothes. I had three pairs of shoes, dress shoes for church, tennis shoes for play and saddle oxfords for school.
We had white dress shoes for summer and black dress shoes for winter. I only wore white Ked’s tennis shoes. Black and white saddle oxfords for my school uniform. I did have sandals in the summer to wear with shorts.
Well, we have never had enough snow to shovel it!
One time, when I was a little girl on New Year’s Eve in 1963, we had enough snow for my dad to build a snowman with us. I was 8 years old.
That was so much fun and a rare treat for a kid that lived in New Orleans!
I agree . The best snowfalls are the lighter ones that melt away on its own the next day .
Need, you aren’t missing anything by not shoveling. 🙄. Actually when I was younger I liked raking and shoveling . My back doesn’t like it anymore 😭.
I can’t imagine shoveling snow!