Trust me Dave, I do not like peat pots very much. I will continue using plastic as well, but I have found the Cow Pots to be very cool. Again, not worth the price. They are NOT like peat pots, in that peat pots do not break down quickly, nor allow roots to permeate the walls. Cow Pots do. Once in the soil, they break down very quickly. The "boost" is that the manure pots add to the nutrient factor, unlike peat pots. Maybe I am the odd one, but my use of them have been nothing but positive. Other than the price. I will never pay the price for what I can do otherwise with plastics and fertilizer. But these perform as they claim.

I recently sold my yellow submarine. A 1981 BRIGHT YELLOW corvette. I was constantly being followed by cops. I have never gotten a speeding ticket but as soon as they'd ee that car they were on my tail. I would then slow down to about 25 miles per hour just enjoying life and they would finally pass and leave me in frustration.HAHA! Once I got pulled over and he couldn't find anything to ticket me for and finally he said,"OK, I'll let you go since I can't PROVE you did anything but,,,,,your lipstick is on crooked!"

I want to thank you all for replying to my post. It was very generous of you to take the time to help me with this decision. You all made some great points for me to consider. Looks like we'll be putting it on the market but I thought I would address some of the comments in your posts at this point: Play up what 'spoke' to us when we bought it issue: That's gonna be tough. I dare say I do hate EVERYTHING about this place: but I know that can't be entirely true. Mostly is though! I'll give it that it has a pretty good floor plan and a nice neighborhood. Period. Why did we buy it? Well we had a list of things we wanted the new house to have and this one had many of them, when we looked at the list on paper and put checkmarks next to it, it looked ok. i.e. 2 car att garage, 4 bedrooms, office, screen porch, playroom...Plus basically had the square footage we wanted for our family of 5, a nice quiet neighborhood, and was in the school district we were trying to get into, which was our #1 priority and could close in time (#2priority). That's about it. Nothing of the actual house itself spoke to us, other than to say" you'll need to fix this , clean that, update this, repair that"....ad nauseum. It had been neglected by previous owners and showed its wear and tear but we thought it had the bones to work with and once we put "our mark on it, it would be nice" and we'd be in a good school district. I remember saying that. We had left a lovely new house that I had drawn the plans for and needed nothing done but was in a poor school district. After the move I sunk into a very deep depression which I have been able with much effort to scratch and crawl my way out of but as a result I think I'll forever resent this hellhole since it robbed me of a couple years when I was depressed. We have done a lot of improvements and in fact it is considered by most (not me) to be quite nice. It is nice but I am too emotionally tied to hating it to ever see it as really nice. We could stay and continue working on it since there are a few mre things we'd like to do. The only thing is the more we do, though in a way it helps, in another way it just reminds me of what a mistake we made by buying it in the first place. The $30,000 lost issue: I think I was referring to the fact that the market has depreciated by that much here so I was seeing it as a loss IF we move but I agree with the point that it's actually already lost! I had never thought of it that way. Thanks for pointing that out. The can we afford to move question: I'd say that's the million dollar question. And the answer is a definite yes but with some caveats. We'll be paid off here within 9 years. Oldest will be starting college in 6 years. If we move, we'd need to go back up to a 15 year mortgage and payments would be about the same as now. Yikes, I am very frugal and paying a mortgage for an extra 6 years is a tough pill to swallow. Tougher even than the Prozac maybe! We have lots of friends who have lovely houses and 30 yr mortgages but I can't handle that, though we could have one S W E E T !!! house if I could. Not in the cards for me or my DH since I hate debt. a 15 yr mortgage again will be a little tough to take but less so than living here where I'm unhappy. And you know what they say: "If Momma ain't happy, ain't nobody happy!" Life is short issue: Sure is which is why we are planning on selling. It's a tough market and we're only willing to lower the price such that we can get a nicer place with a 15 yr mortgage. We won't go so low on price here that would necessitate us getting a 30 yr mortgage for any new place. That would definitely make me resent any new place such that I'd be in the same boat as now. Hopefully we'll get lucky and be able to sell with not too big a loss. So, have I mentioned that I have a lovely house to sell????? LOL

Honey also shows price history. You can put on a notification list for lower prices and it tells you if it's the "best deal" on the item. The only thing that makes me mad about Amazon Subscribe & Save is it does not tell you if it's available for less (not S&S) elsewhere on the website. I have 52 subscriptions, so it takes time to go through the next month's delivery to check prices. I hope everyone that uses Amazon use smile.amazon.com so your purchases that are eligible for donation (bottom line, below) can go to your favorite charity or school system when you sign up. My purchases have donated almost $250 to DGS private school (2+ yrs ago). The Amazon app does not generate the donations, so I always order from my laptop or Safari on my cell phone.