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Got more snow shoveled today, as well as carried in pellets AND finally FINALLY put away the clean clothes that have been sitting in baskets in the laundry room since before Christmas
The good news is that the exercise I got in the last 2 days will cover the missing fast day from yesterday. So yeah? lol5 -
You go, @bmeadows380 !!!3
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Bmeadows you are one remarkable woman! I don’t envy your dealing with the snow. I’m a transplanted northerner and have done my share of shoveling over the years. As pretty as that first snowfall is, I can’t say I miss snow as a day to day drudgery. Shoveling out the paths and driveway, shoveling out the car, driving in whiteouts and the constant cold. NOoooo 🥶3
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Hopefully some day I will be responsible for shoveling my own driveway! Right now the apartment does all of that stuff, but if I buy a house it will be all me. Actually think it would be good for me to have those sort of more physical chores to do.
House hunting is still going on. Lost another house this weekend. Well, I think I did since they were to have decided Monday evening and I have heard nothing about it. So I went to look at 3 more yesterday afternoon. I found a possible one but it will depend on what I can get it for. It is going to take some TLC as it was not well maintained. Before I move it I will have to hire someone to clean it (needs a deep scrubbing), get the carpets stretched, and change out the house numbers on the front of the house. The back yard also needs a lot of elbow grease and pretty much all the window screens will need to be repaired/replaced. But the price is low enough that I will save on closing costs and monthly costs so I COULD do those things. If all the problems are superficial then it could be a really good house for me.
But again, I am not getting my hopes up because I am already tired of the emotional rollercoaster this has been.
Otherwise... next week I REALLY need to get my eating under control. Both for my health and my budget. This past week has been bad. Real bad. And my body is paying the price. Pushed things with soy the other day (I was craving basic "chinese" food so went to Panda Express) and while my chronic stuff did not flare, my digestive track was not happy and my joints hurt SO SO bad that evening and the next day. Still a bit achy today and it was been a couple days now.
Actually, I should be getting back into things today since I am not eating out. Also will use my pedal exerciser to get some easy movement in that shouldn't cause the joint pain to get worse.5 -
Fingers crossed you find your castle soon, Athijade. Househunting is so very stressful.3
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Buying a house is kind of like interviewing for a new job. You look, get your hopes up, envision yourself in the house, think about fix ups to make comfortable for you. And then you don’t get the house! It’s a big emotional investment and exhausting.4
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Had a friend about 20 years ago now who he and his wife (human resource recruiter and investigative reporter respectively) turned it into a full time equivalent job for 16 months.
Files, notes, comparisons, plus and minuses, what they went for in the end. Every weekend viewings. Some evenings too! They only made three offers in that time including the one they got and proceeded to fix up substantially (with the guy breaking concrete and moving it out with a wheelbarrow!) before moving in!!!2 -
We have lived in 4 different cities and 14 or 15 houses in 46 years….the smallest was 1200 sq ft and the largest over 6700 sq ft….we now live in a 2400 sq ft house that is adequate for the 6 of us….I do miss the huge kitchens we had and the pools and beachside living but I don’t plan on moving again unless I go to a nursing home lol….the only good thing about moving so much is that you keep your closets cleaned out….3
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Connie I found a quicker way to clean the closets. One of our cross country moves, we learned from the company that our moving van (semi truck) caught fire on the freeway in the middle of an ice storm. All our furniture, appliances, dishes, bedding, clothes, etc. So what didn’t burn on the side of the road got soaked, frozen and looted. Our closets and rooms were very, very clean. 👍5
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The upside is insurance and Air Force covered most but not all loss. And I got all new stuff! No one was killed or maimed in the process. Some of hubbys sentimental hoard stash went up in smoke👍. New toys for the kiddo. Grandma got the bedroom furniture of her dreams that year. I found out the importance of replacement value insurance. I call it a win - after I recovered from the shock.3
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I put an offer in on the house needing the TLC. There are a few other offers on it already so it could go either way. I also worry about the appraisal for my funding. FHA loans are a lot stricter when it comes to those appraisals and the fixes they may require before being allowed to close. I think there are a couple things they could come back on like the glass in the back door (should be a double paned window by one has been broken) and the wood trim around the garage door which is breaking up in some spots.
Offers are not due until tomorrow so I won't hear anything for a couple days. Will still work on another list of other houses to see. Better to be prepared!4 -
Yoolypr, there are days I would gladly set fire to some of my stuff….things I have treasured for years, my kids don’t want….what was I thinking when I bought all this crap?3
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Connie - when we went to the insurance agent after the truck fire, the very first question was have you had any other fires or fire damage in the past? Guess arson looks like a fine solution to some people’s problems.
After not moving for years I too am inundated with unwanted stuff that son does not want to inherit. I am making a point to find a good home for my “treasures” at least once a month. One cabinet or dresser drawer at a time. There are needy families, homeless, and other people who love useless schotchki out there. My mission is to find them and bestow my unused goods to them.3 -
Keeping my fingers crossed for you Athijade! I hope it all goes smoothly for you!
We moved in August 2020, having been in our tiny cottage since 1992. It was lovely (built 1650) but soooo tiny! One very small bedroom just big enough for a 4' double bed, one small bathroom (though in fairness it did have a lovely cast iron roll top clawfoot bath), a galley kitchen and two small reception rooms. The ceiling beams were low enough for me to touch on tiptop and I'm only 5'1"...and as if space wasn't already limited enough, large inglenook fireplaces took up most of one whole wall in both of the reception rooms (though again in fairness, there was room inside the fireplaces to sit comfortably on a rocking chair and yet be far enough away from the fire not to get scorched by the flames).
So on my retirement we moved to a bigger house (this one's Georgian, so built a whole century later than the cottage in 1749) and we're suddenly awash with space! No more excuses not to host Christmas, as we have 3 spare bedrooms. Doh. The only way I'll be moving again is in a pine box....we had 30 years of 'stuff' squirrelled away in that tiny cottage, and moving was a nightmare!3 -
The worst move we made was from the Florida Keys to Las Vegas….a nightmare!….we had to tow cars,rent numerous U hauls,extra drivers,breakdowns, etc….a five day trip took ten days…my daughter was pregnant, we had five dogs and my mother, too…we got lost more than once….in Mississippi we called a moving company and they came to our rescue repacking and delivering our stuff to Vegas….we used the same company two years later to move back to Florida….6 months later, they moved us back to Vegas and two years later back to Florida where we have remained!…and we only moved one more time to where we are staying!1
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Oh my.
Bella - I love the sound of your wee cottage - it is exactly what the pup and I could use. And I thought my 1898 rowhouse was old
Connie - what a nightmare that sounds like. My parents (mom really) liked to move a lot. For three years in a row we moved on New Year's Day. As a kid in school I wasn't impressed...lol...but survived.
I don't feel inclined to move anytime soon.2 -
lauriekallis wrote: »Oh my.
Bella - I love the sound of your wee cottage - it is exactly what the pup and I could use. And I thought my 1898 rowhouse was old
It was lovely, and we loved it...and for two normal people or one and a pup it would've been fine....but my husband has over 4000 vinyl records, 5 electric guitars and amps, a traditional double bass and two cellos, and I have over 1000 books...plus betwen us we had 5 bikes in an outhouse - so we were a tad cramped. And getting up and down a narrow spiral staircase is hell on the knees...3 -
Somehow the “stuff” seems to grow in volume the more rooms you have. I’m ready to pitch it all and move to a tiny house.
Today was physical therapy with several added torture exercises. But it does seem to be helping so onward!
We’re having a rare few days of winter. Yesterday was 80F. Today we’ll be lucky to get over 32F with deep freeze tonight. And cold weather next week. I need to pull out all the sweaters, puffer coat, gloves and hats for their annual outings. Why do I buy sweaters and sweatshirts when winter lasts 3 weeks at best?2 -
Same here with winter weather….started the week cold and rainy, really windy….last night 60 degrees and today 76…. Tomorrow back in the 50 s…..no wonder I have a cold!2
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uh-oh. Having a cold these days is NOT as much of a non issue as it used to be...1
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My husband and I bought a little 2 bdrm 1 bath house in 2001 right after we got married. It had no yard and was on a very busy street. We called it our starter house because we moved into it from an apartment. In 2004 we decided to sell it to get something bigger because we had 1 child and I was pregnant with another. We tried to sell that house off and on for 12 years before it finally sold. The biggest complaint was that there was no yard... nothing we could do about that. In 2016 we finally got that house sold and moved to a bigger house in a small nearby town. At that time we had 3 kids and 2 dogs. Kids were 15, 12, & 8 when we finally moved into a 6 bedroom 3 bathroom house with a huge fenced back yard and unfenced side yard. Everybody loves the space we have here inside and out.
We are cold here today, too. Our high is 27F. Yesterday it was 30F and we got some snow flurries. Not enough to measure though. I worked yesterday but am very happy to be off today and staying warm at home. Tomorrow is supposed to be 40F, Saturday 48F and I work both those days.
Get well soon, Connie!3 -
0/3 on offers as of today. Feeling defeated and had a good cry last night. Today I kinda feel numb and am just going through the motions honestly. Because that is what I have to do.
I did look at my budget now that the first set of raises have hit our paychecks (we still have performance raises next month as well and they are going through the whole pay structure so that could end up with people getting increases this Spring). I was surprised with how everything came out. I am actually doing pretty well. Even if I decide to go month to month at my apartment, I will actually have more at the end of the month then I do now. I have to make that decision by next Sunday though. Gonna look at more houses tomorrow and then will decide month to month, 3 or 4 month lease, or 12 months and try house hunting again at the end of the year.3 -
Fingers crossed that a perfect house for you appears very soon, @athijade. It is a shame, but going through the motions is probably much easier psychologically than the rollercoaster of the excitement hope and disappointment and disillusion.3
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This morning I'm going to try to paint ... fingers crossed ... the painting I'm working on I started in October - hoping to have it finished before surgery - but that didn't happen because the flowers are taking about a million layers of paint each
. It is 5ft x 5ft so "reaching" the top areas is a bit of a strain. This is a gift for a friend who owns/runs a flower farm a few hours away from me. She is having a huge production barn built at the moment and I wanted to gift her this for her new space since she brings so many flowers to my life (at the moment - a bunch of intense red amaryllis from last weekend, the longest lasting blooms of white with just the slightest shade of pink ranunculus from three bunches she shared with me on New Year's eve, and this week a spring bouquet of tulips and hyacinths in a mason jar and a pot of miniature daffodils!) All this colour and feeling of spring surrounds me because of this amazing, extraordinarily hard-working woman)
The particular spots on the painting that need work at this point are sort of/almost in my range of motion now? We'll see. Half an hour is all I'm hoping for today.
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That is amazing!1
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This is beautiful.0
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Laurie that is just breathtaking. I love it!0
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I wish web sites understood that when I ask "dude, what widgets do you have in stock so I can walk in and buy one", the answer I want includes widgets I can walk in and buy, say within an hour drive or two.
Widgets you deliver? Widgets in another province? Widgets coming in on February 6? None of these **kitten** washing machines can wash my clothes, the girl's towels, or the downstairs family's clothes this weekend!!!😹
Remember the $298 washing machine on special 🤣😂😹
Ok, the 499, or pre pandemic $599 washing machines (Canadian dollars here, they're worth like $0.8 each or so closer to Florida)? What a joke, right?
So the most basic, house brand, not available in stock top loaders come in at $699 to $729. Plus delivery of course. For $79 on average. Plus $30 in hoses In a week or two. Because having it in stock means... you don't have stock at the store!🙀😡🤬
Never bought much from Lowe's. Have rebate accounts at home Depot and Rona.
But Lowes web site actually lists availability by store. Home Depot could not tell me which items on display they had on hand in their own store.
$945 after taxes (849) for the most basic lg top loader. Cheapest whirlpool in stock was $799. Samsung same price but rpm on lg was over 12% higher so hoping for stronger motor (hoping, not expecting)
Hope it fits in the mini van too.... 🙀🤣🤣🤣🤣3 -
When we moved into this house we bought a heavy duty washer and dryer from Sears….it is amazing and you can put a lot of clothes in it at once….the tub of the washer is so deep I have to stretch to get the clothes out!…we had a front loader I hated….so anyway, we have a large laundry room with room for our washer, dryer, a freezer, a sink, cabinets, a small dresser, the water heater and the vacuum, etc….there is also another washer and dryer hook up in the garage….if I ever finish cleaning the garage we will hook up the washer and dryer that is sitting under a pile of boxes!1
