Heck Yes! Absolutely Not. Maybe?
A new weekly post thingy!
Heck Yes - something cool that’s making my week better.
Absolutely Not - Something that can sincerely get fucked.
Maybe? Because grey area is part of life.
Heck Yes!
Y’all I’ve been watching a gem of a show recently added to Netflix - North of North.
It takes place in a tiny arctic town with a modern Inuit population. It’s fascinating! The show’s main focus is the young and newly separated Inuk woman Siaja and her experiences navigating relationships, a new job, and motherhood. It’s funny and lighthearted and the costume design is so good. The parkas and boots! The earrings! So good. There’s only one season but I hope there will be more because it is a delight.
Absolutely Not.
What in the Handmaid hell is this. I mean, I could give them a LOT of ways to actually encourage women to have more babies but it would involve things like “affordable childcare” and “paid family leave” and “giving women control over their reproductive health” and hey, how about straight up “not criminalizing women’s healthcare” but nobody asked me, a useless old childless cat lady. This seems like a very open attempt to control women and get them out of the workforce and back in the kitchen. Get bent, MAGA creeps.
Maybe?
I’m currently getting texts from our realtor who’s busy with a staging person1 asking if any of our furniture can be moved to the garage. Y’all. This is really taking a mountain of restraint from me but we need to sell this house quickly. Does staging actually work? I definitely understand minimizing the clutter (which we spent the entire weekend doing) but does moving the couch to another wall and hiding our ottoman in the garage really make a difference? It seems kind of insane. Also, I am not a control freak exactly but I do get a little Capricorn-twitch about the idea of people in my house just moving shit around without my input. I’m trying to let it go and also hope they don’t hide our TV because I need that.
Update: Turns out it is the ACTUAL GODDAMN WORST to have a stranger come into your house and move all your shit around. It all looks weirdly nice but is completely unlivable. They also suggested we hide our 300lb mid-century credenza. Like, sure, I’ll just tuck it in the corner of the linen closet, no problem. *sob*
Staging our existing furniture, not bringing in weirder stuff.
We are also in the process of selling our house right now! I've been debating staging too and so these comments are helpful to read. Another thing I noticed is that on Redfin, all the comparable houses to ours are clearly staged. So I don't want to not do staging, and then buyers are used to looking at staged houses and they come to mine and it looks "off" compared to the others they've toured.
I had to sell my mom’s house after she died unexpectedly. We did an estate sale and all her furniture was gone, then we had a stager come in and only do some rooms: living, dining, kitchen, and master. It was such different taste than my mom’s and so weird. But the house sold in two days so I’m a fan.
Also meant to comment on your moving announcement post. You’re doing the right thing moving to be near family and help. As hard as it is. As much as they might drive you bananas. Still the right thing.