Cleaning Out the Dreaded Basement

Luisa Perkins
The Budget Francophile
3 min readFeb 16, 2024

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We all float down here….

Dark basement steps and walls
Okay, it wasn’t quite THIS scary. Photo by Andy Li on Unsplash

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a house in possession of a big basement must be in want of stuff to fill it.

My husband and I have been married for 34 years, and we have seven children. Twelve years ago, we moved from a 2200-square-foot house to one with 3400 square feet. Not counted in that larger square footage was the huge unfinished…

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Luisa Perkins
The Budget Francophile

Novelist, foodie, francophile. Top Writer in Books. My Patronus is our corgi, Moneypenny.