{"id":11818,"date":"2014-01-16T07:00:06","date_gmt":"2014-01-16T12:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casartcoverings.com\/casartblog\/?p=11818"},"modified":"2022-07-11T15:27:47","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T19:27:47","slug":"downsizing-without-compromising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casartcoverings.com\/casartblog\/downsizing-without-compromising\/","title":{"rendered":"Downsizing Without Compromising"},"content":{"rendered":"

Is it possible to downsize without compromising?\u00a0 I don’t think so.\u00a0 Marni Jameson<\/a> says the trick is to downsize up.\u00a0 Marni’s idea of downsizing is: “an intimate home, but not a broom closet.\u00a0 I want an easy keeper, with enough usable canvas for me to imprint my soul in three dimensions.”\u00a0 She want to live in comfort, be close to some city life, but not so close that she can’t see the stars at night.\u00a0 “I want gracious but not grand, lovely but not lavish, pretty not pretentious.”\u00a0 Is all that possible?\u00a0 Perhaps.<\/p>\n

I have a friend who was recently widowed.\u00a0 Originally from Missouri, she’s lived in New Orleans for the past 50 years.\u00a0 She sold her home right after her husband died and has to move before mid-March.\u00a0 She has friends and one son here, another in Missouri and a daughter in Arizona.\u00a0 Her solution is to rent a 3 bedroom, 2 bath apartment for a year, enjoy the company of her friends, visit the son in Missouri during the hot, humid summer and the daughter in Arizona during the cold winter months.\u00a0 She will be able to take most of her furniture that matters, give children anything they want, have a garage sale and donate what remains to a non-profit.\u00a0 I think she has found a way to downsize without much compromise.\u00a0 Here are some advantages to downsizing.<\/p>\n