{"id":22308,"date":"2011-05-29T13:31:16","date_gmt":"2011-05-29T20:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=12418"},"modified":"2016-09-17T14:17:15","modified_gmt":"2016-09-17T11:17:15","slug":"is-that-the-best-place-for-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/is-that-the-best-place-for-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Is That the Best Place For It?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still working hard at perfecting my home&#8217;s organization. I had it nearly down pat before I started the renos, but it&#8217;s been a bit of a struggle since. I think it&#8217;s because I&#8217;m much more fussy this time around since these are systems I will be living with for many years. I really want to get it right and not just a case of putting something somewhere just because it fits there.<\/p>\n<p>Today, I&#8217;ve started on a massive spring clean with the main objective being to find the perfect home for things that haven&#8217;t exactly been in the way, but which have been absolutely unsightly. One major bone of contention was in the study. It was the bright yellow, 25&#8242;, ten gauge, 15 amp extension cord I bought in Eugene to reach the power pole a million miles away. I coiled it like a snake and stuck it in a corner. Yeah, it was out of the way, but every time I walked into the room I&#8217;d chide myself for not putting it away properly.<\/p>\n<p>I was at a loss as to what to do with it. I didn&#8217;t want it in the basement since the humidity down there led to my losing the three extension cords I first brought with me on the road. I don&#8217;t want to use the cab as a storage room. The kitchen, library, dressing room, and toilet room didn&#8217;t have space for something like that. The loft, then? No, I try to keep as little as possible up there to keep the dust down. Okay, so it had to be the study. Perhaps in a tote in an overhead cabinet? Nope, that extension cord is HUGE.<\/p>\n<p>And then it hit me:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_12419\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IMGP2115.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12419\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12419\" title=\"IMGP2115\" src=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/IMGP2115.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12419\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">large gauge extension cord hidden in the study mattress bed base<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/travelswithmiranda.uskeba.ca\/?p=5770\">bed base in the study<\/a> isn&#8217;t very high, so there&#8217;s not much room to store stuff under there (thank goodness), but it is a dry and accessible location that is the perfect home for ALL my extension cords!<\/p>\n<p>Next challenge: where to store my &#8216;in progress&#8217; stuff like the Poliglow kit. I&#8217;ve already figured that out, having come to the conclusion that I&#8217;m missing some furniture in the library. So, until I get a furniture budget, I&#8217;ll just need to be patient.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A good house is never done.<\/em> &#8212; Sarah Susanka<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still working hard at perfecting my home&#8217;s organization. I had it nearly down pat before I started the renos, but it&#8217;s been a bit of a struggle since. I think it&#8217;s because I&#8217;m much more fussy this time around since these are systems I will be living with for many years. I really want [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1041,632,6,1226,635,5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alberta","category-canada","category-homemaking","category-lethbridge","category-north-america","category-rving","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}