Lets say you live in a very small space (like a single hotel room, for example) and you have a choice:
1. have all the "stuff" you need/want to make life easy, but due to that small space you have stacks of that "stuff" everywhere.
or
2. you have the bare minimum of "stuff", but you don't have all of your stuff that you usually have to make your life easier/ comfortable.
What do you pick?
It was a pretty easy choice for us, as too much stuff in a small space gives both Jacob and I a twitch in our eyes. However it has brought some interesting challenges, such as we only have four spoons...
Living with 4 spoons (and 4 mouths) means that when Jacob was making some Mac & Cheese yesterday we realized we didn't even have a big spoon to stir, it means doing a lot more dishes several times a day (or at least whenever we want to eat), and it means we CAN NOT lose a spoon because we are careless and left it in a bowl behind the chair (which yes, happened regularly around our house). But it also means the little spoon does work when we don't have a big one, it means my hands are actually getting softer because of washing so many dishes, and we can keep track of all of our spoons because... well... there are only 4 of them and only 1 chair that it could be hiding behind. We also don't have "stuff" everywhere and we soon realized that it is actually possible to live with 4 spoons. It can be done.
1. have all the "stuff" you need/want to make life easy, but due to that small space you have stacks of that "stuff" everywhere.
or
2. you have the bare minimum of "stuff", but you don't have all of your stuff that you usually have to make your life easier/ comfortable.
What do you pick?
It was a pretty easy choice for us, as too much stuff in a small space gives both Jacob and I a twitch in our eyes. However it has brought some interesting challenges, such as we only have four spoons...
Living with 4 spoons (and 4 mouths) means that when Jacob was making some Mac & Cheese yesterday we realized we didn't even have a big spoon to stir, it means doing a lot more dishes several times a day (or at least whenever we want to eat), and it means we CAN NOT lose a spoon because we are careless and left it in a bowl behind the chair (which yes, happened regularly around our house). But it also means the little spoon does work when we don't have a big one, it means my hands are actually getting softer because of washing so many dishes, and we can keep track of all of our spoons because... well... there are only 4 of them and only 1 chair that it could be hiding behind. We also don't have "stuff" everywhere and we soon realized that it is actually possible to live with 4 spoons. It can be done.
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