Introduction

I got the idea to start this blog when I was trying to do some research of my own. My husband, our two year old, and I all live in a nice little two bedroom apartment. We drive a Smartfor2 and a Fiat 500. Even when we had our first son, we had to start making the most out of the “small” living space we call home. My husband works out of a Home Office, which we turned into an Office/Baby’s room.

When we found out number two was on the way, we knew had to start getting more creative on how we take advantage of the small spaces we were dealing with. It is a lot easier for people to say, “Just get a bigger house/Apt” then it is to do. A bigger place costs more, means moving, and quite frankly is unnecessary at this point. The place where we are “crazy” is that when we traded in our Prius (with over 215,000 miles on it) for the Fiat when we already knew we were pregnant with number two, lol.

Now no offense to you moms out there who love your Vans and your large house, that is great! If it is what you are comfortable with and you have the means to achieve, then more power to you. For me, I have several factors in my family and life that currently leave living (and driving) in smaller spaces making more sense to me.

1) I already live in my apartment. My husband and I are saving to buy a house (hopefully in the next five years) and it doesn’t make sense to me to spend the money, time, and effort right now to move just to (hopefully) move again in a few years.

2) I already have a small living space and a small car, and I barley have the time to keep them clean. I can’t imagine having to clean any more rooms or bathrooms, etc. At least not right now with my current schedule.

3) I don’t like vans, lol. It’s my preference, but I just personally don’t care for them.

4) I have found that actually keeping my spaces small helps to keep the amount of junk we collect down. We don’t have room to store spare/extra items, so if we don’t need it we don’t buy or pack-rat it- We find it a good home.

I understand that time and circumstances could change any of the above, but for now, that is what I have to work with.

In trying to find Baby item solutions for our small spaces, the problem we have run into the most was that with all our research online, we still had the hardest time finding good reviews and advice on said items. A quick example would be our stroller search. We were looking for a small, double stroller (an oxymoron I know). We preferred one that would allow me to jog with the kids, as this is one of my main forms of exercise. The reviews I found were often of people talking about how something was “small enough to fit in my van” or “small enough to fit comfortably in my suburban”. Well that’s great, but that does me no good in finding if it’s small enough to fit in my Fiat or my Smart, lol. I would find people complaining about the tight spaces of their “larger” vehicles, etc and think “this is getting me no-where”. So my husband and I really had to dig in and try some things out for ourselves. As we are discovering and learning more tips and tricks I started think, hmmm maybe someone else out there needs to know this stuff. Though the likely hood of tons of people finding this blog are low, I figured I would put it out there in case it might help someone else looking for ways to make the most out of their busy schedules and small spaces.