Brave New Face

I moved into my new place this past weekend.

I like the layout a lot more than my old apartment… the kitchen is bigger and there is an actual living room.  The bathroom is way off away from everywhere else, which, in my mind, is exactly where bathrooms should be.

The front door into the hallway that goes to the two apartment doors is always propped open.  The handle is locked and no one, including the landlord, appears to have a key for it.  So, as a result, the hallway to my apartment door is always accessible from the outside world.  This is causing a lot of anxiety in my brains, especially at night, when I’m trying to tell my brains to go to sleep.

The landlord said he’s going to replace the handle with something that we can all have keys for.  I think that’s a great idea, and I hope he does it very soon.  I’m really tired from the super craptastic sleeps I’ve been having.

Boxes.  Boxes of my stuff.

Man, I’ve got a lot of crap.  Yesterday was a mission to further sort my already sorted clothes and shed some more bulk.  I’m starting a Winter/Fall clothes storage box to put in the basement, and tossing stuff that I was previously on the fence about.

With moving comes expense… actual moving expense, damage deposit, high(er) rent expense, buying shit for the new place that I didn’t have room for at the old place expense.  It’s certainly adding up and causing me more of that anxiety.  The commitment to get rid of the debt is a hard one for me to keep, it seems.

The internet is providing a few sites with some tips on how to get out of debt.  Some of the tips seem pretty straight forward, (don’t get more into debt when you’re already in debt) and some are just hard to imagine in this online shopping-type world we live in (cut up your credit cards, and don’t use credit cards… “you don’t need them”).  Perhaps these people have never bought anything online, tried to book a hotel room or rent a car.  Perhaps reducing debt is like going on a diet and not every method is going to work for every person.  You need to customize your plan.

Just don’t customize it to the point where you’re still sitting at the same negative amount in your bank account (thanks, line of credit) that you were two years ago.