An Introduction: Part 2

List after list after list after list. This is what my life felt like the time between being accepted and moving day.

We had booked to move on Saturday 28^th April.

I had lists for kitchen essentials, lists of bathroom/toiletries, lists of bedroom furniture, lists for all other furniture and lists for food and cleaning supplies. Anything you can think of, I had a list for it. Where all these lists have now gone, I will never know! (If you’re needing help and you want to see what I put on my lists, let me know and I will post them!)

My room seemed to get smaller by the day, and all our new home things had started overflowing onto the landing and the dining room of my Mum’s house. Home Bargains had become my favourite shop. They actually sell some lovely home ware for such great prices. I also really got into watch Brummy Mummy on YouTube. Her hauls are the best and I’m obsessed with her sense of humour. Emma, if you read this, please can we be friends? Thanks.

Closer to the time, Dan (my boyfriend) had a look in his Dad’s charity shop and we managed to get a sofa and a dining table with four chairs for under £100. Don’t be pressured into buying everything brand new and getting finance deals where you’ll be paying £2.17 for your sofa until you’re 96 years old. It is not worth it. If you look in the right places, you can find great quality furniture in charity shops, and you can always buy that cool pastel coloured paint and up-cycle it yourself.

My issue with all this at the beginning was that I was seeing all these people on Instagram and Pinterest with such lovely houses and lives and I just wanted mine to be like that too. But you have to realise that all this comes with time. Unless you have an insane wedge of a wage, you can’t do this all in your first home. Take things one step at a time and keep saving and you will have these expensive interiors eventually.

Side note – If you don’t have Pinterest, GET IT. You can find anything on there. I’ve been using it a lot for interior inspiration, but there are up-cycle ideas, food inspiration, and fashion ideas and literally anything else you can think of. I love it!

After we’d spent our final weekend at our parent’s houses, we were getting to nervous and excited, only to have this shattered to pieces being told we couldn’t move on the 28^th. As I said before, things will go wrong.

There’d been some sort of water leak. Plumbers had to come in and dig up the floor and the water had been turned off and it just felt like everything was going tits up.

That night, I cried from the second I got home from work, until the second I fell asleep. You might think this is a bit excessive, but for me, it wasn’t just ‘another week’ until we could move. It was ANOTHER WEEK away from the person I love. It was ANOTHER WEEK sitting in my room doing nothing and feeling lonely. I had also had a few family members in hospital that week and everything just completely overwhelmed me.