The Pain of Home Ownership
This month has rapidly become a jumble of prices and patterns and colors and dates. A few things that have become apparent to me.
As a homeowner looking for home improvements, or looking for utilities, you are on the estimator’s schedule, he’s not on yours, even though you are paying him.
It only takes a few extra minutes to do something right, as opposed to getting something done. Odds are that the previous homeowner did not do this.
It’s never clean enough for your wife, so you should probably just paint it anyways.
You’re never going to get everything done before you move in, get over it.
We’ve been trying to get carpeting for about two weeks, and after looking at all of the local and national scam artists we’ve found that most of them work the same way, none can install within a week, and the prices end up being about the same. There was one exception here in the northeast, who will claim to do it the next day. But, they could not, with us at least, be able to actually show up for the appointment. (twice, once with a phone call excuse, and the other without notice or explanation). I recommend that anyone be wary of carpeting from the Empire State.
So, we have trim in the bathroom to do, and the office walls will need a coat also. We might actually have the painting done this week. We’ve purchased some living room furniture, and we plan on buying a new computer desk and filing cabinet. The moving men are scheduled for the 20th, and we’ll have another ten days or so to clean the old apartment afterwards. I am really, really, really ready to just move in and get it over with.
Wow, on the World of Warcraft front, I have really been neglecting my toons. My 60 Undead Warlock is now officially broke and will continue to be for the near term, as I bought the Robe of the Void pattern. My 22 Tauren Warrior is sitting in the Barrens lonely and wondering where I am, and my 10 Human Paladin is looking for spooky children in Goldshire. I played a total of only 4 hours this week, the bulk of that on Friday night in the ZG raid, and the rest on Sunday night when I went on The Pod People raid. Unfortunately, I couldn’t stay awake, and had to bail early. The warlock is still sitting in Elwynn Forest as I type here on a Tuesday. Given the move and the DSL transfer to the house, I have no idea if I’ll even be online by the weekend. I guess I’ll be playing House Moving Tycoon anyways…
As a homeowner looking for home improvements, or looking for utilities, you are on the estimator’s schedule, he’s not on yours, even though you are paying him.
It only takes a few extra minutes to do something right, as opposed to getting something done. Odds are that the previous homeowner did not do this.
It’s never clean enough for your wife, so you should probably just paint it anyways.
You’re never going to get everything done before you move in, get over it.
We’ve been trying to get carpeting for about two weeks, and after looking at all of the local and national scam artists we’ve found that most of them work the same way, none can install within a week, and the prices end up being about the same. There was one exception here in the northeast, who will claim to do it the next day. But, they could not, with us at least, be able to actually show up for the appointment. (twice, once with a phone call excuse, and the other without notice or explanation). I recommend that anyone be wary of carpeting from the Empire State.
So, we have trim in the bathroom to do, and the office walls will need a coat also. We might actually have the painting done this week. We’ve purchased some living room furniture, and we plan on buying a new computer desk and filing cabinet. The moving men are scheduled for the 20th, and we’ll have another ten days or so to clean the old apartment afterwards. I am really, really, really ready to just move in and get it over with.
Wow, on the World of Warcraft front, I have really been neglecting my toons. My 60 Undead Warlock is now officially broke and will continue to be for the near term, as I bought the Robe of the Void pattern. My 22 Tauren Warrior is sitting in the Barrens lonely and wondering where I am, and my 10 Human Paladin is looking for spooky children in Goldshire. I played a total of only 4 hours this week, the bulk of that on Friday night in the ZG raid, and the rest on Sunday night when I went on The Pod People raid. Unfortunately, I couldn’t stay awake, and had to bail early. The warlock is still sitting in Elwynn Forest as I type here on a Tuesday. Given the move and the DSL transfer to the house, I have no idea if I’ll even be online by the weekend. I guess I’ll be playing House Moving Tycoon anyways…
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