Packing Up Boxes

With the house deal finalized, my wife and I are going through everything we own. It all has to be packed up into boxes and made ready for the big move at the end of January. How did we acquire so much stuff? How much money did we waste on the stuff we purchased and are now discarding because we don’t wish to move it?

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Looking for a House – Done

We won’t be looking for houses anymore. That is it I am done with looking for houses. All the effort of getting into your car driving to a place, meeting with your agent, having them give the best possible spin on the house, liking the place and then thinking this doesn’t exactly meet our needs we will need to renovate a bit is all very overwhelming.

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Looking for a House – Still Looking

We thought we found a house we liked but then the end result was that we would need to do a bunch of work before moving in. We then saw a house at the top end of our budget, but with one bedroom on the main floor and the rest in the basement it wasn’t family oriented. Then we waited. Things are slow this time of year and we were getting ready to settle into the apartment for the rest of the winter. Then it happened.

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