Tip #37: Keep perspective. I’ll be the first one to admit that the events of the past few days have brought a slightly different meaning to the term survival tip. When you’re busy filling your…
Tip #36: Winter clothes. {Part II in a two part series about winter clothes and tiny apartments. Part I here.}. Put ’em away, take ’em back out again. Maybe you’ve always put away your…
Tip #35: Tackle what you can. Don’t doubt yourself. Living in rental apartments generally means living with a lot of things that you’re not one hundred percent pleased with. (Take the fan saga, for…
Tip #34: Outerwear.{Part I in a two part series about winter clothes and tiny apartments}. Let me start by acknowledging that the blog world–and perhaps all the world–appears to be utterly and totally obsessed with…
Tip #33: Leave the dirt somewhere else. Here’s the thing with tiny apartment tips: most of them are the same tips you need for life in roomier apartments, the impact just gets magnified by…
Tip #32: Get a magnetic thingy for your knives. This is a very specific tip. Usually my tips are more general. Like this one. But I really love this stupid magnetic strip,…
Tip #31: Don’t worry too much about cooking odors. When people find out that we live in a tiny apartment, a common question is whether or not we cook. The question often stems from people…
Tip # 30: Two tips for one: 1. ask and ye shall receive. 2. never look a gift horse in the mouth. or try not to. neither tip is particularly easy to do. but…
Tip #29: Keep your surfaces clear. mostly. now i should start off by saying that i know this one is a real matter of preference. and i’m not advocating the wholesale removal of every…
Tip #28: Books. well, that’s not a tip. it’s more of a sigh. books. in our tiny apartment my relationship with books goes something along the lines of can’t live with them, can’t live…