To rent an office for my small business?

[RegusGirl]

We live in a very small house. As much as I try to keep it clean and tidy, DH plonks massive piles of work crap in general areas such as the lounge room and dining room. Also in the dining room is an enormous cat litter tray which DH insists DCat will not use if it is anywhere else in the house. DCat does have bowel issues but I am sure there is another way to handle this. We have a laundry just next to the dining room and I think the cat litter tray should go in there. DH says no. I also think we should use disposable litter trays as the huge plastic shit-covered monstrosity in our dining room wafts a smell around the house (our downstairs is open plan).

Anyway, I have my own small business. I want to work in the dining room but just can’t work in this environment and am looking at renting some premises so that I can work and also make the things I sell. I just don’t think it’s professional to sell things that have been made 3 metres away from a cat litter tray. And I hate being in this smelly house. I want to start taking my business seriously.

DH says I should work in the laundry but it is too small and humid.

AIBU?

Thanks for all your replies. You are right, spending money on an office when my business isn’t making any money is madness.

But @RegusGirl it’s ok to be pissed at the situation. Just need a different solution.

Don't waste money just yet

but put your foot down with your DH. Why does he get to make all the decisions and all the mess?

Claim a room, move the cat and litter , i'ts your home, why do you need to ask for permission!

And the most caring cat mum award goes to.......

Can't you just scoop out the shit and flush it as soon as the cat goes? And definitely move the litter tray. Then you can have the dining room!

Yabu as it could cost you loads

I would go outside to a shed and get an external power box fitted and then run an external extension lead from there to shed. Get a small heater and do that.

Or your DH needs to work somewhere like near the litter tray... or the laundry.

Good luck

Can you afford something liike a “lean to” /conservatory? Second hand on ebay can be very cheap,realise this is probably too complicated,but it would also probably add value to hse too,what about bedroom space or attic, i,m sure you,ve explored those options so wish you the best x

Negotiate. You can get amazing office deals right now. You will do loads more work out of the house too.

Also why is your cat S inside? Does it not go out? No cat needs to poo in a tray.

Cats are so sensitive. Please don’t let your litter tray smell. Even if you and your husband are prepared to put up with it, your cat won’t want to. Poop should be scooped up immediately (and if you use clumping litter then pees should be scooped out daily too). Either way your tray should be completely emptied, cleaned, dried and refilled with fresh litter on a weekly basis.

We live in an area where cats are not allowed out.

Hadn't seen how popular it is in the UK, but saw that The Space Program, Storage World, and Stansted Storage offer rentable storage units offering office space rentals often cheaper than store front and office buildings. Had clients go that route starting out as start ups needing to go cheap, so something to consider.

What do you mean cats aren’t allowed out?

We live in a cat-free zone.

Ok, I’ve had to look this up and it’s not a UK thing.

This sounds pretty gross all round. You need to take ownership of your life and your home. Unless you’re wealthy, you can’t rent a premise if you aren’t making money as how would you pay for it?

Today you need to sort out a place for your husband’s work stuff - wouldn’t the shed work? How much stuff is it? And move the litter tray and see what happens. And clearly clean it out and open the windows much more often as it shouldn’t be this bad.

disposable litter trays sound ridiculous and polluting. You need to just deal with yours properly.

This is exactly why I need to make my business a success. To move out of this Hell. As an example, we live in a small townhouse where the front door opens into the living room. The first thing you see is a chair. This chair has on it - and around it - the following:

• Various work items belonging to DH. They could easily go into the garage, his work van or the area that I created for him in the laundry.

• A chair belonging to a client that he is meant to be repairing. Meanwhile it sits there - broken - on top of our living room chair.

• A musical instrument. DD has recently taken up this instrument and DH remembered he had one in his parents' loft. Unfortunately, it's too old to fix so DD can't use it. However, it's quite valuable so we could sell it and buy DD a new one from the proceeds. One that she can actually use. But DH wants to put it back in his parents' loft. Meanwhile DD still doesn't have an instrument. And it sits in our lounge room, balanced on the client's chair which in turn is sitting on our lounge room chair.

I dunno, am I a pain in the arse going on about this stuff all the time? I genuinely don't know.

You could use the method I use with my kids, asked, told, deadline. When deadline is up consequence or I deal with it as I see fit.

DH is your problem!

You need to split up and move out

What happens if you just pick stuff up and move it? Because otherwise you’ll just have to split up if it’s unbearable for you.

my husband is much messier than I am. I tidy up a lot. But he manages all the cooking. So it’s a split that works for us. I wouldn’t live in that chaos at all

Can you see how crazy this is OP that your husband is leaving the house in such a state (and prioritising a cat over his wife) to the extent that you'd rather pay money you haven't got, to spend time out the house rather than in it. You have space that you can't use, and he seems to be making all te decisions and you have to just put up with it. He decides the level of messiness, he decides where the cat litter goes, he decides you should work in the fucking laundry (wtf). There is something not right in your relationship, it doesn't sound equal and it doesn't sound like he respects you

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