storage

If anyone has any storage and/or space saving devices for this apartment, I'm all ears. We're trying not to buy too much furniture, as it probably won't be worth it and the apartment is rather small, anyway. The problem is mostly in the bedroom. Our bed takes up pretty much literally the whole room--if we had gone with queen sized we wouldn't have even had room to edge around it. So there's no room for a dresser of any kind; only two collapsible laundry hampers in the corner (thanks, Connie!!) The closet kind of has enough room for clothes, except that apparently Australians never wear floor length dresses, or if they do, they're only short Australians. Also, I guess Australians don't wear socks or underwear, because there is clearly no room in the closet for those. Mine have been relegated to my suitcases which are under the bed. Our 4 suitcases laid out together=the size of our bed. The large suitcases fit under the bed grudgingly and we can only get them out again if we lift the bed up. So we can't put our socks in the little suitcases and then the little suitcase in the big one and have room for our shoes under the bed!

We only have one other closet and then a desk with some filing room. But moving to another country creates so much PAPER that we can't give up a drawer for essential things like PAPER CLIPS.

We thought we came here with no stuff. What happened?

Surprisingly, though, we do have a lot of cabinet space in the kitchen. Maybe our spare clothing will have to end up there. "Can you hand me an onion? No, dear, that's a pair of socks......"
~Ruth Ann