{"id":244,"date":"2008-02-09T08:30:09","date_gmt":"2008-02-09T15:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=244"},"modified":"2008-02-09T08:30:09","modified_gmt":"2008-02-09T15:30:09","slug":"living-in-a-small-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=244","title":{"rendered":"Living in a small space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/couch-computer.jpg\" title=\"couch-computer.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/couch-computer.jpg\" alt=\"couch-computer.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m learning that there&#8217;s a certain Zen to living in a small space. I&#8217;d better get used to it &#8212; I&#8217;ll probably need to live in the travel trailer for about a year until the house is done. Clutter-control needs to be a constant discipline. If you don&#8217;t need it, don&#8217;t bring it into the trailer. Everything must have a place, and the storage areas must be used efficiently. Don&#8217;t let dishes collect. Wash them right away. This is all much easier when you don&#8217;t have to go to work every day. When you&#8217;re rushing around to keep a schedule, chores have to be postponed. When you&#8217;re on your own clock, you can take the time to do things as needed.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s always room for a computer! I lasted five days before i went to ComputerTree in Winston-Salem and got an iMac.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/kitchen.jpg\" title=\"kitchen.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/kitchen.jpg\" alt=\"kitchen.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/bedroom.jpg\" title=\"bedroom.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/bedroom.jpg\" alt=\"bedroom.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m learning that there&#8217;s a certain Zen to living in a small space. I&#8217;d better get used to it &#8212; I&#8217;ll probably need to live in the travel trailer for about a year until the house is done. Clutter-control needs to be a constant discipline. If you don&#8217;t need it, don&#8217;t bring it into the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=244\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Living in a small space&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainable-living"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}