Today Mandy and I took a trip to Cameron Heights to see the dream homes in the Full House Lottery. These homes are worth $1,000,000 dollars each and they are huge, like 4138 square feet huge. Mandy and I walked around them saying "My kitchen could fit in half of this closet. My apartment could fit in this bathroom." No exaggerating. They actually could. I could probably fit 8 of my apartment into one house. Actually I just did the math and I could actually fit 7.8 apartments into the house. Mandy could fit 11.5 of her apartments into the one house. HUGE.
I like my apartment. I don't need anymore space than this but when you see those houses it makes you think that's what you want. Bigger! Fancier! More Superfluous! Do I need an office, a four seasons room, a theatre room, a games room and a great room? No. Are they pretty? Yeeeesssss. Okay, one concession. I REALLY want a kitchen that looks like I could host a cooking show in.
I keep asking myself why people decide they need that much space. One of the houses was a 2 bedroom - they expect 3 people to live in that amount of space! So much of it adds up to the consumptive lives that we lead. Personally, I'd rather spend a million dollars on a penthouse loft near Whyte or Dowtown because it would be so convenient. Nothing about those houses says convenient. There's more to clean, more to mow, more space to try to use, more to buy in order to fill the cupboard space, more distance to get to a grocery store (or anykind of store for that matter), more ways to avoid your neighbor, more furniture.....MORE!
Okay, so I still bought a ticket. But if I want that convenient loft downtown, then selling one of those houses and getting all that free furniture is a great way to do it!
Here's hoping I don't win a Grand Piano!
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I'd kinda like a grand piano...
~K
Oh, a grand piano would be kind of cool. I just think it might not fit very well in my living room :)
.....I'm not sure something can be "more" superfluous....
Grammatically yours,
K
OK, it's funny because I know you can't be more superfluous! Have you ever heard of the word irony, Ms. I-know-everything-about-everything?
Stupid english majors and not being able to appreciate a joke that isn't gramatically correct.
I'm going to come over to your blog and pick on you :)
Steph and I did some calculations last night and in fact my apartment could fit into one of those houses 13 times. No! Don't feel sorry for me...I feel sorry for you! I'm like a monk compared to you people.
Ha!
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