Yes, and it’s break resistant so we use it with our (innately rule following) 4 year old.
PSA though that they used to use lead based pigments so it’s best to buy new and not from a thrift store where you don’t know the age of the product.
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I completely want Corelle. Because I want to buy everything new. It’s ridiculous. I’m fighting my desire to buy everything. I mean, is that just part of divorce? I want new everything? Trying to slow myself down!
I’ve never had a counter height table, but I just looked at some chest freezers and I realized a small one, say 5 cu’ is 25”x25”x33”. For $145. I have a folding black plastic table that is 36”x29” when folded and 72”x29” when extended. I would take the legs off, and make some kind of box on the bottom of the table top so it wouldn’t be wobbly if I leaned on it, but it could easily be a table for 1 with 11” of overhang (to fit your knees under)”. And when necessary I could open the tabletop. The area for your legs wouldn’t be optimal, but I probably wouldn’t use it that way all that often.
Is that too weird? The advantage is I already have that table. And if I hate it I can just find somewhere else to stick the freezer.
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I eventually replaced 99.5% of everything I took from the marital home. But not all at once.
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I totally get wanting a clean slate /new stuff.
Also, at this time of year I often suffer from ‘buyeritis’, maybe wait till after the holidays and see if the desire is still strong.
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OneDay, It’s weird. I just want a new start. But, like Star says, I also want to buy everything every Christmas season. It’s a mess!
My wife has already bought new dishes for herself.
I do have this enormous dresser I could potentially put against the back wall of the dining room. It’s 72x 19 so would take up most of the 24” side wall.
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this is literally my kitchen table. I keep one side folded down 99.9% of the time.
I also use a wide 6-drawer ikea dresser down one wall to expand my storage space, since my kitchen has almost none, and I like drawers more than cabinet doors. I keep my tupperware/food storage items in it, as well as lesser used baking items and kitchen linens (and the paperwork drawer lol). It does a bad job with anything heavy since the drawer slides aren’t built for it. This shape:
My friends put their deep freeze on wheels, and it has a special slot in their pantry. There is a counter/shelves an inch or two above it, but it’s extremely easy to roll it out, open it up, and then push it back. If there are good spots for such a thing, it makes access really nice. Downside: it does increase the height.
+1 correlle, I’ve got like 20 plates and they take up less than 6 inches of vertical space.
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@letired, sorry, what is your kitchen table?
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Maybe a combination like this one could help? Storage and a bench with a table which could be folded away? Underneath the bench are kitchen drawers as well, in this case each ist 80*60 centimeters, a huge storage space. The bench ist 160 cm long which sits up to three but it could have been build also smaller. I use one of the cupboards as pantry (with more shelfs as are in this foto) and the other one for random kitchen stuff. I use the table in front quite often as second working space instead of sitting in my home office.
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That’s quite good! If the table has a center pole instead of fout legs, and is narrow enough, it can be pushed back over the bench when not in use, to make the walkway more roomy.
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I had a much shorter timeline for moving than you do, so getting rid of everything would mean no chairs, table, desk, couch, etc. Because there wasn’t time to find replacements. You are in a different situation.
Also, I am first and foremost a practical person, so much easier to squash down those sorts of desires.
But they don’t squash forever. One day I was just tired of looking at a loveseat from the marital home, so smashed it with a hammer and put the pieces in the dumpster. Because nobody was around to help me carry it out!
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that is badass! And awesome.
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I also have a Norden! It’s followed me through several moves and it’s a workhorse. Also because it’s unfinished you can always paint it if you want.
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When did you last move? One thing moving regularly has cured me of is a desire to get all-new things lol. We all have tooooooo much stuff
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The Norden lid a really good idea.
I’ve been thinking about the Russian apartment video. It blows my mind how differently we all live. I know she identifies as a minimalist but wow. She had no food. I mean, I know Russia has a really rough history, including times when police would literally search houses for food bc storing food was seen as anti-Communist.
Maybe I don’t need a deep freeze. I’m a dumpster diver, and a batch cooker, but if I will just be cooking for 1…. Squish is satisfied with PB& J for lunch anyway. I’ll wait a couple moths and see what happens.
With the dumpster diving, I get big hauls occasionally then nothing. But if I have the option to get 10 lbs of steak, I don’t want to not have room for it.
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Unfortunately I moved into our current 3000 sq ft house just 18 months ago. And there were 5 :of us living together. My wife, Squish, his mom, her boyfriend and I. Boyfriend left. Then Squish and his mom. And now me. Hoping we’ll be able to sell this house quickly for a good price. Oh well. Sunk cost and all, what do you do. When you are ready to divorce you are ready.
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oh sorry, it’s the Norden gateleg from ikea! I got it 2nd hand years ago and it’s held up well!
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In my last 2 small spaces I wanted a Norden Gateleg.
Weird OMD cult suggestion… you can consider a playcouch (I have a Joey fort from Roo&You and the Americans all have Nuggets). As an adult couch against a wall it’s good but a bit low for some people. As a kid’s couch, tent, fort, slide… it’s amazing. You can also stack it in one super high pile either to jump off of or make more space. If you put a triangle under a lying down piece it makes a great lounger (2 of them) or a prop for semireclining when you’re sick. Covers are washable for dog fur and weirdly my cat hasn’t scratched mine.
There are also nugget after dark communities for when you start dating. Make sure you wash the covers though!
And for dinners you can sit on single layers and eat at a coffee table height.
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To be fair, people living in the country definitely have cellars full of pickles and potatoes and stuff. Gotta get through the winter. But in the city I think the lifestyle is generally more European, like stop at the grocery every day or two rather than stock up once a week. Partly because most people don’t have cars and you can’t carry that much on transit. Partly because the store is probably on your way home or 5 min detour anyway.
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I know intellectually urban Europeans don’t store much food. I have trouble imagining it, though. Too immersed in my own culture, I guess. Even when I lived in San Francisco in a studio with no car, I still had enough food that if I got sick, there was a truckers strike, the Chinese hacked our grocery supply chain I could stay in my apartment for a week and not starve to death.
I guess some of it is related to the relative cost of food. The US still has the cheapest food in the world compared to income.
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