Jessica Alfieri

writes everything you see here.

• $$$ / 2br – ELEVATOR/LAUNDRY BLDG CONV2BR GREATLOCATION

  Dec 2, 2009 tagged as apartments, stupid ideas

  We’ve been searching for a new place for about three weeks, and my brain is already so fatigued with the process that I’m now ONLY DREAMING APARTMENTS.  Nothing else.  No pretty parks with green grass and colored balloons or frolicking across the ocean to strange places or revisiting childhood memories in the classroom.  Just layout, windows that look out upon brick walls, ooh, a terrace?!, and what’s the closet space like?

  Square footage-obsessed dream torture is almost worse than event planning dreams just before a big conference or moving dreams about forgetting to pack and the movers breaking the couch in half.

  Here, it’s just constant lists, requirements, moving money for deposits and application fees, climbing stairs that seem to get smaller as we go up and up, padding through uninspired layouts, and evaluating endless pro/con lists.  If we give up this, we could get that, and it’ll be worth it to take that if we can save the money with this.

  Sounds relaxing, right?

  Now if we only had another two thousand per month… Actually, think about that — two thousand extra dollars every month would be life-changing for almost every household.  Perhaps instead of the public option, we could just do that.

  ($2k x 12 = $24k per household per year)

  ($24k x 80,000,000 (75% of total US households) = only another $1.92 TRILLION per year.  Obama’s budget team can handle that for sure.)*

  *Or this is my sleep debt talking.