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I can't post to this.

"Bad time to have a less than desirable house in a less than prime location..." Or even a nice house in a less than prime location! We've had two offers but one of them turned out to be pretty much a joke, and the other has a sales contingency with absolutely no sign of their house selling anytime soon. Up until that offer put a contingency tag on our listing and after we started mandating drive-bys before making appointments, we had pretty good traffic through the house, but it's dropped off drastically to maybe one a week instead of six or seven a week, sometimes two or three a day. What's a "5-4-doors"? A lot of what's in our (low) price range is split level; I think they're very unattractive so I would only consider it as a last resort. It would have to be a VERY good neighborhood! "Yup, I must agree about sellers being in denial & keep listing higher than 2005, rather than lower." We're priced at almost $50,000 less than our house was appraised for by an independent appraiser in 2005. Ouch. (Thank goodness we didn't take the full cash-out when we refinanced, like the bank was pressuring us to.) But, there's a repo across the road dragging us down; it has "issues" and is even closer to the highway than we are, but it is larger by 500sf, has one more bathroom than ours, and is $14k less. We simply can't afford to drop our price commensurately. And yeah, the keeping-the-house-perfect is a real drag... we went out yesterday and I said to hell with it, left the bed unmade and dishes in the sink. I just didn't care anymore right then. I have to go get vacuum cleaner bags today, we've gone through an entire package of them since Memorial Day!

When I posted my December goals on Nov 30th I said I didn't think I would be able to get to any sewing until the 18th and that worked out to be just about right. It turned out to be the 19th, but who's counting, right? On Saturday I shoved all the holiday storage boxes away that were stacked around and on my sewing table, sorted through the stacks of fabrics that I had pushed aside during Christmas decorating time and got to work. I did 2 birthday blocks due in January and 3 January lotto blocks too. I searched through books and fabric until I developed the perfect border plan for the last Round Robin quilt; although I won't get to work on that until after Christmas. After not touching fabric for a couple weeks it was pure bliss to get back to it and have a couple days to myself. DH was out Christmas shopping so it was just me, the dog, the cats and holiday cooking shows on the TV. A perfect sewing weekend! Kate