A little while ago Cecilia invited me to fill out the very fun Memory Nest tag!
Here are the rules:
1. Thank the person who tagged you. (Thank you, Cecilia! :))
2. List five things that start with “when I grow up and have my own house…” (they can be true, or utterly ridiculous, whatever you feel like writing :-))
3. Tag one other person and let them know that you have done so.
Of course, speaking technically, I am sort of grown up…but as I am still an Industrious Scholar and I am not in possession of my own house, I think I am still perfectly in the position to fill out this tag.
1. When I grow up and have my own house, if there is a husband included in the deal, he will always find me in a perky and angelic mood when he comes home from work. After all, I’ll always have had a simultaneously restful and highly productive day, the house will be spotless, there’ll be a delicious dinner already made, I’ll have spent plenty of time writing and plenty of time gardening, walking, and enjoying the outdoors, so why shouldn’t I be in the best of tempers?
2. When I grow up and have my own house, this description will fit my house perfectly:
“You’ve made this little house just about perfect. …. I’d be real happy even if we couldn’t talk at all, when I come here – jest to sit and look at you and your pictures and your flowers would be enough of a treat. It’s beautiful – beautiful.” – Captain Jim in Anne’s House of Dreams by L.M. Montgomery
(In all seriousness, I find Captain Jim’s description of Anne’s House of Dreams to be a real inspiration for my own potential house.)
3. When I grow up and have my own house, it will either be a cozy snug house built in the 1950s (authentically restored to its 1950s glory, of course) or an enormous Victorian mansion. It all depends on my mood each day. (Though I have been leaning more towards the 1950s one in general of late.)
And of course my appliances will all be genuine 1950s articles. I will have somehow obtained them all for free, and they will all work perfectly.
4. When I grow up and have my own house, I will keep the house completely clutter-free by means of one fifteen-minute decluttering session in the mornings. This will give me time to do those things that no one ever actually has time for (like pillow-plumping and dusting books and things like that), so that my house will look like something out of Better Homes and Gardens.
5. When I grow up and have my own house, I’ll hire a manservant to do the housework when I feel overwhelmed/am just not in the mood. From my perusal of Victorian homemaking books, I think a footman would be best – the footman can do pretty much anything, so he’d be useful to have around.
Wait, what am I saying? I should just get a Jeeves!
Well, that was a lot of fun; thank you again, Cecilia! It was very useful in setting some attainable and concrete goals for my future, as you can tell.
Now, regarding tagging someone for the Memory Nest Tag…hmm, Cecilia already invited Emi…
I tag Heidi at Along the Brandywine. And if anyone else reading this thinks it’d be fun to fill out, please do so, and let me know so I can see your answers!
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What fun 🙂 the Anne reference was so sweet!
Thank you – so glad you enjoyed it! 🙂
Loved this tag, Lizzie!
Oh, and when you obtain the 1950s appliances for free, please give me the name of the place where you got them. It sounds like a wonderful deal! 😉
It is a great deal, isn’t it? So obliging of whoever-it-is. I’ll be sure to pass their information on to you 😉
😄Kindred-Spirit-ier and kindred spirit-ier we get all the time, I’ve been thinking about this very thing for the past few days!! (And scribbling it in my head, so hopefully it gets to meet the keyboard at some point before I forget how it went😆)
Ooooh yes, that top picture is SO Perfect, and I love it all to pieces…. (And the cupboard doors in the kitchen too, for a random fact.)
And ohhh again, because the Anne quote….🥰🥰 Isn’t that just a perfect picture to aim for?The kind of place that makes people happy just looking at it…. I can see it in my mind….
Oh yes, by all means, do get a Jeeves!! And then I shall come visit, and borrow a bit of his brilliance whenever I get in too terrific of a bind 😉
Oh, what a fun coincidence! I look forward to seeing it once it becomes acquainted with the printed word ;D
Isn’t it so darling and perfect? (And the KITCHEN. I don’t know what it is about that particular shade of blues and yellows and pinks that you see in ’50s kitchens, but it just Speaks to me, if you know what I mean, Jeeves.)
It really is! That’s what homemaking is all about, right there in that quote.
Oh, but of course! Come as often as you like; I shall not be miserly with Jeeves’s brainpower 😉
So do I😄 (And it comes closer and closer all the time, so it may not even be that long, Life and Circumstance permitting 🙂
That is to be a goodly portion of one of my Five Things For When I Have My Own House, I believe….
Soooo perfect and cozy🥰
Some things are just exactly right, aren’t they??
Oh I say, good egg! *Pumps your arm enthusiastically* Awfully obliged and all that, you know!
Oh, no need for thanks and all that rot. A Hexam never turns down a pal in need, you know!
😉The Hexams take hard after the Woosters, I see! (Now imagine how embarrassing it would be if I took off spreading about Bertie-isms with a free hand, and used them all the wrong way😳😆 DO set me straight if I do that, mm?) But thanks awfully none the less, we cannot have a good turn going unthanked 😉
(Oh dear, now I’ve mused it over for too long and can’t remember if that is a Bertie-ism or not…did he ever speak of taking hard after people, or just taking after them? I don’t know 😭 It’s been far too long since I’ve indulged myself with a J&W book, and that’s a fact.)
Very likely it isn’t a true one, (at least, I never heard him do it myself,) and it is all the fault of my thinking things sound as if he WOULD say them, and calling them Bertie-isms on that account…. Which isn’t quite the same thing, only an “Emi-ism.”😆😜 (Goodness, but PLEASE don’t cry, or I shall feel dreadful🥺😜)
Well, I think those could count for something! ‘Pseudo-Bertie-isms,’ maybe? ;P (Oh no, don’t feel dreadful! That was just METAPHORICAL crying. Look, see how I’m smiling now! 😁)
Pseudo-Bertie-isms it is 😉
Oh, well THAT’S different, I shall stop feeling dreadful at once then😂
“Of course, speaking technically, I am sort of grown up…but as I am still an Industrious Scholar and I am not in possession of my own house…” I love the way you worded this 😀
I love all of this, actually. Ditto what Emi said about kindred-spirit-ier, because it’s like you were reading my mind when you wrote this! (Except I would easily take a 1950’s house over a Victorian mansions. Mansions are well and good, but not comfortable enough for the every day!)
Although I have yet to meet him, you’ve already convinced me that Jeeves would be very Handy to have around XD
How lovely that this turned out to be such a kindred-spirity post! 😀 (Though I’ve liked vintage things for quite some time, my love for it has flared up more recently…which may have been a little apparent in this post, heh. I’ll admit I would be quite happy to take a mansion for the every-day, but *if* I were to live in a mansion, I would want to live in it with lots of other people. I would not want to spend large portions of the day wandering around by myself in it, because that would be both lonely and spooky.)
I’m glad that I’ve given you that impression, because he would, indeed, be Handy and then some to have around. xD
Oh, same . . . I’ve always loved old-fashioned things, but in the past couple years I’ve fallen in love with vintage. Almost anything vintage and I’m like, “We wants it, precious, yes we do.”
Hmm, yes, well if I had dozens of kids, or lived in a multi-generational home, I would take the mansion too! As long as I had a Jeeves, or a footman at the very least, to be Handy XD
Yes, preciouss, we wants all the nice vintage clothing and kitchen things we see when we go to the thrift store. Which decade is your favorite? It’s hard to pinpoint for me, but the ’50s do seem to be in the lead currently.
Heh, in the case of the mansion, I think maybe the footman AND Jeeves would be best xD
I love the ’50s, too, but I think the ’40s are my favorite! That may or maybe be a result of my fascination with WWII.
True, true XD
I love 1950s things! I have finally admitted that a house of that era is more practical than a grand Regency manor such as Pemberley. (Oh, and the Clothes…)
Oh, the footman! Sounds great! You can have the footman and I can have Jeeves… yes?!
Wellll, yes, I suppose just a tiny bit more practical. (And EEEP the clothes. I love vintage clothes. :D)
Oh… I mean…do you really think? …you know what, fine. That’s fine. You can have Jeeves, but I’ll take the footman AND Bertie AND I can borrow Jeeves’s intellectual services when needed. Sound good?
I KNOW! They are soooo amazing!!
Okay… I suppose so… I just forgot about Bertie, who is better than a Jeeves any day… Yes, if we must, just let me have Bertie to tea sometimes as an antidote to too much Jeeves-ness. Okay?! xP
Wait, I just had a better thought. Let’s get matching vintage houses right next door to each other, so I can borrow Jeeves’ brain and you can borrow Bertie’s society whenever needed!
(Bertie is indeed better. Just don’t tell Jeeves I said that. ;P)
Yessss that’s a great idea! Then when we’re tired of J&W’s company, we can drink tea together and set the world to rights…
Ahh, that sounds like a lovely time! 😀
But *will* we get tired of their company? 😛