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Robin LaVoie's avatar

Oh yes, this sounds very familiar! We live within our son’s routines and have to be strategic when anything needs to shift. Good luck and hope the new dryer (eventually) will be welcomed!!

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Linda Cobourn's avatar

It's a process, isn't it? Often longer than I would like it to be. Allen is now content with helping me take the laundry to the dryer at the laundramat, although he insists I take him home and then come back to get it myself. He does carry it into the house for me. So progress. Sort of?

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Debra Szymanski's avatar

When I was younger, and until I moved into the house I would live in for 28 years, I would often rearrange the furniture in the bedroom. It felt like something fresh and new, seeing the room from a different perspective. I think it might just have been my ADHD, but I like new a stimulating things.

The house we live in now and the one for 28 year stint, I could not arrange the furniture any differently than it is. It is the only way it will fit! So, I often just sit and think about if there are other ways to do it, or what other rooms I would rearrange.

I would love to rearrange my livingroom. It is a large room and often sounds like an echo on one side. But, with the invention of cable and needing that wire to reach to the TV limits where I can put furniture. But, I am thinking of switching to YouTube TV and if I do there will be no cable, so look out living room, we just might be shaking things up then!

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Linda Cobourn's avatar

I used to rearrange things just so someone would notice. If I cleaned the room and polished the furniture, no one would say anything. But if I moved a chair or a pillow, someone would say, "Oh, you changed things!" My living room is quite small so there aren't a lot of ways to move stuff around since we put the TV on a wall bracket. I content myself with changing the seasonal decorations on the mantel. Allen never notices at all, but I like it!

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