• CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    9
    ·
    14 days ago

    Question: Do you eat at the kitchen table or in the lounge room or other?

    We eat at the table but tonight I was a rebel and ate in the lounge room.

    • PeelerSheila @aussie.zone
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      7
      ·
      edit-2
      14 days ago

      My dining table (which takes up a quarter of the lounge room) is usually half covered in craft stuff and school stuff because there’s nowhere else to put it, so there’s room for a couple of people to sit at the other end. There’s also the couch, where the Minipeelers usually sit for meals. Mr P lays on his bed (in the next room) and eats dinner on a tray. It sounds weird but we are all no more than a few metres from each other. I don’t invite people over because I don’t want people to see how I live.

      • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        8
        ·
        14 days ago

        I was meant to have friends over last night but they cancelled and I’m glad because my kitchen looked like a bomb had gone off. It’s all better today.

        Don’t be too harsh on yourself. You’re a working mum who puts her family first. You’re doing great in my book. 🙂

        • PeelerSheila @aussie.zone
          link
          fedilink
          arrow-up
          8
          ·
          14 days ago

          Thankyou! 🙂 I tell myself it won’t always be this way, and one day we will have an actual whole house to live in (or I will buy an apartment or regional home and piss off) but at the moment we’re living in a space that was built for one elderly person.

      • Eagle@aussie.zone
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        4
        ·
        14 days ago

        Our big table is currently hosting a lego build, towels waiting to be folded and a tub of cake decorating stuff from me decorating my mother’s birthday cake. There was still enough room for the three of us to eat dinner though.

    • just_kitten@aussie.zone
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      5
      ·
      14 days ago

      The last time I lived in a house that was large enough - my last sharehouse - there was no kitchen table, but there was a small dining room (with dining table) and a lounge room (couches and fire). I usually ate on the dining table unless I felt like staring into the fire of a cold evening. Occasionally, I would eat in my room if I was working hard on uni/work.

      As a kid I used to hate eating at a table. I’d always eat in front of the computer or TV

      • CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        3
        ·
        edit-2
        14 days ago

        I have a gully kitchen and at the end sits my table and chairs. Technically that part is a dining room because it has carpet but there’s no wall separating the two.

    • Eagle@aussie.zone
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      14 days ago

      We eat at the table. The table is far to big for the space since we did a kitchen renovation but I love it so it’s squished in a corner.

    • tombruzzo@aussie.zone
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      14 days ago

      I try to make a point of everyone eating at the table together now with the kids. There are occasions that’s not the case but they’re few and far between fortunately