Just an OKC Girl...

OK, so I’ve been staying in these AirBnBs over the past four-ish weeks and supposedly I will be able to move home on April 13th! But until then, I am relegated to living in someone else’s 🏡...

FYI: I am paying less $$ to rent these stupid AirBnBs AND take my 🐕🐕🐕 to doggy daycare everyday (yes I’m THAT person) than to lease a place, move all my shit in there and pay for utilities.   

The Village:  Update from the last post, this was the best of the three. 13 days.

Edmond:  11 Days. 2 story Town home with 2 bathrooms and a spiral wrought iron staircase. Literally a “town home village.”  Some place call The Crossing - every time I drove into the place I felt like I was in some post-apocalyptic dystopian 📺 show that wasn’t quite good enough for cable TV, but #FOX would take it. They cheaped out on the flip and either some of the materials in the town home had some funky chemicals or other people’s pets left so much dander that I almost didn’t make it.  I’ve taken more Benadryl and Claritan in the last two weeks than in all of 2018! 

OKC:  Oh GD I am on the downhill slide! I am here for 18 days and so far this place is borderline... Now mind you, I’ve lived in shitholes in my lifetime, but as far as AirBnBs go, this is a little terrible. They bought this house less than a year ago and did literally nothing to it besides install new carpet...y’all, there is wall-to-wall carpeting, EVEN IN THE KITCHEN. Broken utensils, 6 oz. coffee cups from the early 80s and PINK TILE in the ONE bathroom. Wallpaper on every inch of wall and every once in a while there is a funky smell because this house in on a stem wall. Did I mention that It’s a 3 bedroom with access to only 2? Oh, and there is random shit in the garage, presumably from the last owners...this place appears to be last updated in the 80s because all the furniture is from that decade! 

Prepare, prepare & PREPARE! I am 1.5 weeks into complete demo and remodel of my home...but I started prepping over a year ago!  I first had to get into the mindset that my personal space would be invaded, so how would I need to ensure that I didn’t feel like my PRIVACY would be compromised? Yes, you do those things like design, etc (my situation is soooo different, I’m a mortgage loan officer that has been in so many new construction/flip homes that I knew right away what I DIDN’T want - hello, are we over shiplap and barn doors YET?).  But mental prep is just as important!

I have lived in my home for 14+ years and raised two children and managed to get rid of a husband and now here I am single in my home.  I LOVE the layout but I had so much STUFF in my home - and I had all the time to go through everything over the years but I could never bring myself to do it.  I was consumed by the extra BS that I should have gotten rid of years ago...so I sought out the help of a local professional organizer who offered me an NDA (non-disclosure agreement).  Why an NDA? Well, I am out there, very public-ish and TBH, I did not want my personal crap out there in before and after pics!  I needed trust and honesty - I got it and we “Marie Kondo’d” my home BEFORE it became a thing! In the span of 5-ish weeks in October and November 2018 we achieved what I could not do in the last 5-ish years...

WHY a professional organizer?  They have ZERO emotional attachment to your stuff and once you start working with them (in stages to lessen the shock) and it is the most freeing experience...I started to feel so lighter with every session and literally could not wait for Becky or Julie to come help me each time! 

This has been the best money I have spent during this whole process! I managed, along with the help of the organizer, to rid myself of 2/3 of my stuff - the rest of it is in storage. I am also prepared to most likely rid myself of over half of what is left once the remodel is done. The girls will be back to help me move back in and organize those things that really matter in my home life.