My partner bought the carpet shampooer cleaner...whereupon he shampooed and cleaned the carpet..um several times. It makes a difference if it's your own and on your own time doing it. Strange as this may seem but we really didn't want to buy any counter kitchen appliances --no toaster, blender, food chopper or pannini grill. Hand blender and stowaway egg/batter beater is all broken down, stowed away. We live in condo for 2 @ 770 sq ft. We do have lockers to store bikes. He has an elaborate happy storage locker for his bikes (we cannot keep bikes up in our suite at all, too dirty and not enough rm.), most of his cycling jackets, trailer, several panniers, just stacks of stuff. He even forgot once he had a brand-new of panniers.

But it's all put to good use --we have basic bike, accessories stored in 3 cities now. I know it sounds crazy but honest we are long enough in a city where there is family, that bike rental would be $100.00+ for several days in total or if we shipped our bikes everytime we visited families that's $50.00 one way per bike (Air Canada). Cities where we each aren't often, we leave behind one of our older bikes /cheaper bikes and allow family members to ride if they want.