The Home of My Dreams?
Jan. 25th, 2008 09:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
livingdebHousing is in the news a lot these days, and it's weird to me how often people write not about finding a house or even finding a home but finding the home of your dreams.
The home of my dreams is a huge stone castle with spiral staircases in the towers, revolving bookcases, and trap doors, and I do not want to own that because I cannot afford it and I don't want to clean and maintain anything that big. So I would never actually shop for the home of my dreams.
What I most want is something solidly built, close to things I like to go to, and which is a good compromise between big enough for me to do everything I want to in it, affordable, and easy to maintain. Does that sound dreamy? Not exactly.
I also hear a lot about the wedding of your dreams. Apparently I am supposed to be fantasizing about a big fluffy white dress, a big fluffy white cake, 150 of my closest friends, all on an island paradise in front of a huge castle. Oh, and some guy.
Of course one might also be in the market for the man/woman of your dreams and the car of your dreams. I think of that phrase as mostly a marketing ploy, which can also have the side-effect of striking discontent into the hearts of men (at least those who decide not to go for the item of their dreams).
Interestingly, I have perhaps never heard about searching for the pancake recipe of my dreams, the electricity of my dreams, or the dance lessons, t-shirt, or glasses of my dreams.
The home of my dreams is a huge stone castle with spiral staircases in the towers, revolving bookcases, and trap doors, and I do not want to own that because I cannot afford it and I don't want to clean and maintain anything that big. So I would never actually shop for the home of my dreams.
What I most want is something solidly built, close to things I like to go to, and which is a good compromise between big enough for me to do everything I want to in it, affordable, and easy to maintain. Does that sound dreamy? Not exactly.
I also hear a lot about the wedding of your dreams. Apparently I am supposed to be fantasizing about a big fluffy white dress, a big fluffy white cake, 150 of my closest friends, all on an island paradise in front of a huge castle. Oh, and some guy.
Of course one might also be in the market for the man/woman of your dreams and the car of your dreams. I think of that phrase as mostly a marketing ploy, which can also have the side-effect of striking discontent into the hearts of men (at least those who decide not to go for the item of their dreams).
Interestingly, I have perhaps never heard about searching for the pancake recipe of my dreams, the electricity of my dreams, or the dance lessons, t-shirt, or glasses of my dreams.