Anyone else doing this tonight?
9 years ago
I always say no, but at the last minute I buy an extra dozen eggs and some dye. But I'm the only one here to eat them!
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Comments (13)Mulchmama, I'm pretty much on the border of NY and PA; Western, NY. Well, we forgot to protect our little tree. We were too busy putting up drywall tonight, and completely forgot about it, til I remembered it just now. I'm almost tempted to wake up dh. lol But I won't, and I'm not going out there in the dark, there's too many bats, and if a vole ran under my foot while I was out there in the dark my scream would effortlessly wake the neighbor's, so what's done is done....See MoreUh oh - 34 tonight - anyone else worried?
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Comments (30)I came on this forum for the first time in maybe ten years today to investigate some things for a friend who is getting ready to sell. I saw your question and have a cautionary tale to tell. My mother-in-law died suddenly in 2005 and my father-in-law moved in with us that day. We loved living with him and he enjoyed our company and the company of our dogs. He was 89 years old and we did not feel comfortable with him going up and down the basement stairs for laundry and we definitely needed a second bathroom that we just could not fit into this house. We decided to move once I got confirmation that I would have my new, better job, for the long term. We found a house in about a month of looking and decided that there was no way that we could prepare the old house for sale with us living in it. My husband had moved in after we married and just dropped his boxes of odds and ends in the basement, we both worked full time and caring for each other, three dogs, and Dad took all of our time. We needed to do a few repairs to the house, too, that could not be done with us living there. Given all that, we bought our new house Oct 31, 2005 and moved in over Thanksgiving. We had the old house’s hardwood floors redone, bathroom ceiling repaired, living room walls repaired, paint in any room that needed it, and had the house up for sale by owner (with help from a discount title company) March 1. Long timers who may still be here may remember those years. It was not yet apparent that we were going into a terrible housing crash. I held open houses every Suday, putting out signs all around to direct people to the house. We were offering 3% to the buyer’s agency. We had one offer for $140,000 and we were asking $165,000. Unfortunately for us, we had paid for the down payment for the new house by putting a second mortgage on the old house. We had started out putting a second mortgage on the new house, but our mortgage person had the idea of putting it on the old house to get a better interest rate. Our recent kitchen remodel was the talk of the neighborhood, so we had reason to believe it would be easy to sell the house. But that mortgage kept us from being able to accept so low a price. We were saving to replace a bad furnace in the new house, not trusting it would be safe for another winter, and it is good that we did not use it to be able to accept the low offer. My sister-in-law turned on our furnace without telling us when she came to see her dad one day. Our CO alarm woke us up that night. We would have died if we did not have one. We were waiting for the furnace repair company to fit us in to inspect the old furnace and were planning to use an electric space heater for Dad until the furnace was inspected. House prices in our area fell so low that the comps for our house were selling for about $95,000, what I bought it for in 1994. I had replaced the furnace, added air conditioning, added insulation to walls and attic, replaced all exterior doors and storm door, all the windows, covered the cement/asbestos siding with vinyl, replaced the front porch, driveway, walkways and patio, gutted and remodeled the kitchen, replaced the garage door and front fencing. We had to wait until the house prices went up again to be able to think about selling. We finally sold the old house in late summer …of 2014. For a few years, we had a rent-to-buy person in the house, so at least the mortgages were paid. Then we put Dad’s caregiver into the house, which got him a great young woman who he trusted and enjoyed after he had several medical problems that caused him to be blind and bedbound. She and her husband were trustworthy and we had no fear that they would be damaging the house we had spent a lot of time and money to get into good shape. Empty houses were not even insurable anymore, so the alternative was renting to strangers. We got no rent after Dad passed away in 2010 and the caregiver lost her job, so we had to pay for both houses for a few years. I don’t even remember what the house sold for. It went to a young couple, the husband grew up on the street behind our house. The wife loved the kitchen and they both loved the dog washing station at the back door for their dogs. We had hired a full service realtor this time. If you do decide to buy before selling, be sure to not use the equity of the old house as a down payment on the new house by getting a second mortgage on the old house. Make sure you have the ability to come down in price if you need to, in order to unload the old house. Living well below your means is also a practice to embrace. During those years that we had two (actually, 3!) mortgages, we also had to replace the furnace, air conditioner, and roof on the new house, and I became disabled from work two years before the house sold. We made it, though!...See More
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9 years agoI made our eggs, plus I filled five disposable deviled egg trays with six colored eggs and six candy-filled plastic eggs for five neighbors.
It was a process, but I got them finished and delivered.
The photos of the completed trays still have to be downloaded, but here are the eggs, in the coloring progress.
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