Helping Older Parents Downsize their Home

Until recently my aging parents’ large single detached home seemed like a prime location to store my life history, my knick-knacks, and my clothes that I will eventually fit in one day.  Best of all this was all free storage space.  Along with being my go-to warehouse, that house was the holder of many of…

Furnishing A New House On A Budget

So apparently I have done something wrong in a previous life, because I am now moving houses.  I realize this is a first world problem, but it doesn’t make it any less tedious knowing that I have self inflicted unnecessary stress to my already hectic life.  Having said that, you don’t come out of a…

House Moving Tips

Although I enjoy house hunting, the actual packing and moving is as fun as pulling teeth (if not less). For some reason this task usually falls on me – or most of it does, from disassembling furniture to filtering out most of my things before the move. This is definitely what nightmares are made of,…

Easing my kid’s move

Moving to a new city, let alone a new country is an anxious driven experience.  More so for children than adults surely.  Even though my wife and I are both Canadian, we met in Dubai, got married there, and had our son there.  At 7 years he visited the country but only two weeks at…