Cartoon: Our First Home Experiences
The Husband and I have been living in our very first home together for just over a month now (or is it two – I can’t tell). Moving in with your husband for the first time is an exciting and slightly nerve-wrecking experience. When you move into your first “married-people” home, you will find yourself saying/hearing/doing the most bizarre things. So I’d like to share a few of them today so that when you move into your own first “married-people” house – you can know what to expect.
“Are you buying butter?”
“Yeah”
“But we don’t have anything to put the butter on. We don’t have bread, rolls or even potatoes. We don’t ever buy any of that stuff.”
“I know… but like… married people always have butter in their fridges”
“mmm… yeah. I see what you mean … yeah, that’s true.
Ok. butter then.”
“Where’s the tomato sauce?”
“It’s in the cupboard.”
“But I thought you liked to keep it in the fridge?”
“Yeah but, i thought you preferred to keep it in the cupboard?”
“What? I’m so confused. I’ll just put it back in the fridge, next to the butter.”
“I need to use the bathroom”
“Are you serious? Ok then I’m going in there first”
“Don’t be so rude, Warren!”
“Why do we need to buy a toilet brush? We are newly-weds – we don’t want to spend our money on toilet brushes! We want to spend our money on fancy dinners and champagne and expensive red wine!”
“I know… Well… what I was thinking… if we have a toilet brush – that means we have to clean the toilet. If we don’t have a toilet brush – we don’t have to clean the toilet.”
“Exactly. That’s why I married you. Sushi?”
“Do you really think the best place to hang all our laundry is right in the middle of the lounge? Like we have a huge two bedroom apartment all to ourselves and you want to hang the laundry right in the middle of the lounge. Like, if you’re sitting on the couch – you have to look through the underwear to see the TV?”
“Yeah. I see your point. Maybe it’s not the best place. Should we put it in the passage?”
“Or maybe just in this little nook that’s made for laundry.”
“You hang washing like my grandmother.”
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“But married people always have roasting trays.”
“Yeah, ok”
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