I will never again . . . (Part 4)

[KennethT]

1 hour ago, JoNorvelleWalker said:

 

I'm not the only one who has a freezer in their living room!

 

We also had a 5'x5'x7' grow tent!

[chromedome]

Wood stove, (apartment-sized) chest freezer, multiple plants under a grow light, and last winter a cage with 2 dozen live quail in ours (the latter of which are thankfully outside now, on a permanent basis). Also a "pet latrine" corner near the door, with puppy pads on a tray for the mutts and, on a stand over top of that, the cats' automatic self-cleaning litterbox and dishes. 

it's not a large room, so when you add in the rack for the firewood, and our respective chairs (and subtract the corner with the awkward under-stairway storage space) there isn't a lot left for actual... you know... living. This has been an ongoing complaint, because my sweetheart - despite her many virtues - has an odd compulsion about filling the available space to overflowing. 

I told her once that it was a passive-aggressive thing she'd learned while married to her [expletive deleted] ex. She's tiny (barely 5') but he's 6'5" and well over 300lbs (for the Europeans, that's almost 2 metres tall and roughly 150kg). I told her that her love of closely packed rooms (I tactfully avoided the word "cluttered") was a way of making him feel uncomfortable in "her" space, so he'd be motivated to head back up to the work camp (he was an oilpatch guy) instead of hanging around home. 

She was startled at that, but on reflection thought that I might have been right. 

[chromedome]

10 hours ago, KennethT said:

We also had a 5'x5'x7' grow tent!

Ours was an "indoor greenhouse," so it was smaller than that, and it lived in our laundry area (essentially a hallway). But the space was shared with a table that had an incubator and eggs, plus a 30"X30" grow-out cage for the baby chicks/quail (depending what had just come out of the incubator) as well as the laundry set and two households' worth of ongoing laundry. So yeah, pretty crowded. My nighttime bathroom runs were often rather perilous, or - as I sometimes put it - "had great comedic potential."