#9 of the Top 10 Sanity Savers When Remodeling

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There are some things you are going have to leave undone.

Say it now, while you are just beginning and it will not sound like abandon when you reach the tipping point.

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For six long months we lived in a tiny house, with no washer and dryer, next to criminals with booming stereos that filled the air with words my children had never heard before. The shower could only shower one person (we had 12) before it would start to fill up and threaten to breach the 2 inch lip. The power box fried out on the last week, the kids got lice. Our manager severely burned herself and our cook we hired to replace Doug was shot in a burglary before we broke ground. He was working from 4 am to 11 pm with a 2 hour commute. We were homeschooling in a new town and were twice stalked by DHS cars while at the park. All I wanted so desperately was to go home.

It was the closest I hope to ever get to the apocalypse.

For me tipping point was carpet for the basement stairs. I don’t know how the conversation got started but the bottom line was I was decisioned out. Somehow we ended up driving to a carpet store 2 hours out of our way because there was a guy who could get a good price on a remnant. Doug casually told me about the guy so I found a time to go, but standing there, all I could think was how much I hated the idea of carpet. Like it was insane to think that carpet was a good idea in any place in a house with 12 people, let alone the entry way. I looked and wandered and finally broke down and told Doug I hated the idea of carpet.

“Why are we even here?” was the response of my sweet exasperated husband. I am not proud, but that response sent me over. We packed up in the car and I cried all the way home. My poor confused husband. There was not another decision left in me. It wasn’t the carpet, it was me tapping out. I was done and conveniently, our budget was too.

I embraced my financial and grey matter deficits and accepted the fact that some things were just going to have to wait until phase 3 or 7.

The basement stairs are still plywood, and honestly no one has ever even commented. The basement bathroom floor is unfinished concrete. Some day I hope to tile it, but the point to all of this is that somethings are just going to have to wait.

The line has to be drawn at some point. Nothing is worth going in way over your head or the value of the project for. Making good solid choices throughout your project will give you plenty to be proud of.

Did you have something that you had to wait on in your project?

Let me know of post a picture of your finished project and give a reader some encouragement.