Using Different Criteria When Shopping for Future Retirement Home
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Comments (8)My husband had a baby blanket with a very cute lion embroidered on it. It was gauzy and synthetic. His mother got it out around the time we got married, which was ten years ago. We took a photo of him holding it up. I ended up with the blanket, balled up inside a plastic shopping bag. Didn't know what to do with it. Considered framing it. Then decided that it would be best to trace the lion design, and incorporate that into a future quilt. It could be the center of a solid white wholecloth quilt, and the quilting could be done with a contrasting thread color. Still haven't done that, but that allowed me to get rid of the original "blankie." I have the lion design in my sewing room somewhere. Ya know, I could get that out, and it would be only a few weeks to hand quilt that. But what would I do with the finished baby quilt? We don't have any kids. I can only imagine using it as a lap quilt. Maybe that's why it's still just a drawing on a piece of paper. Perhaps you should figure out what you like about the original blanket so much. Is it the color? The fuzziness of the fabric? The mere fact that your mother made it especially for you? Then try to reproduce those characteristics in the new article that will take its place. Then the old one can go to blanket heaven....See MoreWhat About Retirement Homes?
Comments (18)I have in my home many of the things discussed here. I moved to a Continuing Care Retirement Community a year ago. My previous home was a ranch-one story, but garage underneath and long flight of steps to the front door. We had put an elevator chair in the basement stairs for my husband. He found it too much if he had to walk up the stairs repeatedly. In addition care of the house and lawn, etc had really become too much for him at age 80. Here we live in a duplex (neighbor on one side) one story. All the houses here are different and can be (and are) customized to the tenant's desires (at a fee, of course). But all have wide doors, door levers, not knobs, single control faucets, flush in-ground garbage cans to one side of the front door concealed by greenery. I have wood floors except for one bedroom. Roofs have overhangs (we're in WA state--lots of rain) which function nicely for shade in summer. Gutters and gardens are maintained by the organization, but residents can add what they want at their own expense. Any problems w/ the house or appliances are taken care of & ceiling or high fixture bulbs are replaced when needed--no climbing on ladders. This is a rather lage community for a CCRC--about 1200 residents & about 800 homes. the campus is 140 acres and is an arboretum. The one thing many haven't mentioned is when or if you can't live unaided. There is in-home assistance available here (additional charge), and when that isn't sufficient, one can move to assisted living in one of the apartments in assisted living building. After that there is a long-term care facility here as well, which is not what you usually think of. For instance, there's a grand piano in the main reception area which is used by both entertainers brought in and the residents. There is more I could add, but you get the idea. There is more to thinkig long-term than just the physical house. I could have stayed where I was because, fortunately, I have no physical difficulties which I think I keep that way as a result of lifting free weights between 15-35 lbs & bench press 70 lbs. This keeps both bones & muscles strong & lifting groceries and water bottles is not a problem. I encourage everyone to do it. I'm 79 and know whereof I speak. Is it perfect here? No, we live on the perimeter of the campus, and so the regular neighborhood extends behind us. Dogs barking? Check. Motorcycles? check. Do we like all our neighbors? No, but we didn't where we moved from either. But all things considered, its fine....See MorePlease critique our retirement home floor plan
Comments (30)Being retired, I don't want a lot of floor space and rooms to clean. I agree. I HAVE 40' OF 3' deep closets just for 'stuff'. Kitchen. Towels. Sheets. Cleaning. Vacuums. Sewing. Whatever. !! I LOVE LOVE their M. bedroom closet. Hmmm, this makes me want to measure my proposed closet space. I'm not sold on the idea of 3' deep closets though ... too shallow to be walk-in closets, yet they take up square footage and must be heated/cooled. As I am a homebody, and just fully retired I do not need all the 'good' clothes I have. I'm remembering cleaning out my grandmother's house when she moved out /went to live with my uncle at age 99. She was holding on to SO MANY "good clothes". She loved her job and enjoyed dressing professionally; plus she and my grandfather "went out" often and took fancy vacations, so she had piles of evening gowns ... all so tasteful and so "her". At age 99, those days were past, yet her clothing filled the closets of all three bedrooms in her house ... filled them to the point that it was difficult for her to store the comfortable elastic-waist pants and embroidered sweatshirts that became her standard everyday fare in her elderly years. She was NOT open to getting rid of ANY of those clothes, even though she had lost weight from a size 12-14 to a size 6. She had good memories attached to those clothes, but she was never going to wear them again, and no one else wanted her business suits, though they were very stylish (and expensive) in the 1980s. To make her happy, I purchased plastic bins and carefully put all those things away (wrapped in white tissue paper, boxes labeled diligently according to her requests). We all know that this makes NO SENSE. Sometimes having LOTS of closet space just allows you to build up /save clothing that, in all honesty, you know isn't going to be used again....See MoreHow Will the Current Shortages Affect your Future Shopping Behavior
Comments (92)I'm doing limited shopping. Costco twice in 6 months, Target only curbside, food co-op every six weeks, Farmer's Market every 2 weeks and Trader Joes every 2 or 3 weeks. A local high-end grocery every 10 days or so. Haven't found paper products that I prefer, because I used to buy them at Target but they won't deliver or do curbside and I'm not going inside. Someone posted (here?) about Staples having TP, so I looked at they had the Scott 1 ply I need for my septic, but they had their own house brand that looks identical for much less $$, so I bought 2 packs of 20 rolls. Delivered in 1 day for free. They also had some sanitizing wipes (their brand) and a free hand sanitizer if you spent more than $30. I have NEVER been able to make their website work for me, so I ended up in a chat, then a phone convo, but it all worked out. I should be good for many months....See MoreUser
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