We bought our second cottage last summer after selling one that we’d owned for 12 years. And which we renovated over 12 long years. So for this new cottage, we were hoping to speed up renovations significantly which would mean that we could enjoy our […]
The other day I was putting together a spreadsheet of all the capital expenses we had incurred at our first cottage. You see, we sold that cottage last summer so I had to pull this info together to calculate the capital gain, or in our case […]
We moved to a new lake last summer and promptly joined the lake association to learn all we could about our new area. They put out a call for loon counters. I’m familiar with bean counters but not loon counters. The association has partnered with […]
If you’ve read some of my other posts, you’ll know that we originally had a lovely rustic cottage with water access. As our kids grew and their needs changed, we wanted to be on waterfront so we could be out on the water wake boarding in […]
As a cottager, you’ve probably been practicing mindfulness without even realizing it. If you enjoy sitting at the end of the dock just listening to the waves lapping the shore, watching the loons teach their babies how to dive and listening to the rustling of […]
The unintended consequence (in a good way) of cottage ownership are guests. I come from a large family and luckily we all really enjoy each others’ company. But being a large family, we have drifted apart geographically. I had never imagined that when we bought […]
So we bought this new cottage (new to us) and it has a fantastic location. One hundred and eighty degree view of the lake out the front windows, facing west, no weeds, crystal clear water and no cottages facing us. The one and only downside […]
The best thing about having a cottage, is that you get to have big people sleepovers all the time. Friends that you might only meet up with in a restaurant are now sleeping over and you get to see them in their jammies with bed head. […]
First world problems – did I leave the iphone charger at the cottage or did I bring it home? When you have a second home, it’s hard to keep track of what is located where. The easiest solution is to buy two of everything but […]
I started out with the goal of just earning enough revenue to cover my property taxes and insurance so that the cottage would end up being 100% no cost for us to use. I hoped to schedule guests so that we would be there just […]
We got our first rental booking and were so excited. Now we had to prepare the cottage for renting. Oh. It seemed like such a great idea when it was still a concept. No problem, we could handle this on top of very active careers. […]
Now we’re not blessed with a lot of money. My husband and I both have decent jobs but between the mortgage, the kids’ hockey expenses and all the other bills, there wasn’t a lot left over. However we were blessed to be in a housing […]
I love home decorating. I mean I LOVE home decorating. So when it came time to furnish the cottage I was in heaven. But I had to keep reminding myself that this is a cottage and not our city home. We live in a city […]
He would email me at work link after link to used tent trailers on Craigslist or drag me over to the computer to look in the evenings. I became fed up and said (a little loudly) that I didn’t want to be stuck having to […]
