I'm tired of cooking/preparing 3 meals a day. It's just the two of us but boy oh boy can that woman eat!! She stays slimish, I get fattish. It's bad enough I do everything here much less start making her one thing and me the other. At times I feel guilty when I buy her fast food cuz of the nutritional value....not to mention I eat it too.
i wanted to sell this house and build one but wth ? my bunker is about the same thing , just needs dolled up a bit ..
We are land obsessed here in Ireland it dates back to the british rule having land was survival! and its got worse now yep now they want 2 cars and 2 houses one abroad like we are all rockerfella?? stupid people arnt happy with thier lot anymore they want more and more its BS i would be so happy with just my house paid in full something i own mine thats it one car dosnt have to be huge just working get me from A to B big enough for my long legs and im happy!
Yeh kids now want to save for a house now before marraige?? young kids that should be out living than thinking about this crap christ imagine thinking mortgage at 18yrs old?? i was travelling europe and partying?? strange generation? it was different in mums day but like you said one mortgage one income? you just couldnt do that now!
I may never own a house here so i may move to spain and buy a small house for 59000 outright then retire there in the sun WIN WIN i can open up a coffee shop anywhere and i understand spanish so what? work my butt off here to pay for a house ill die trying to pay the bank back? im 48 id never get a mortgage or it would be a small one?
Yeh im going to take it easy after this quiet life for me and no banks to worry about! I can live off oranges and fish!
OMG people were panic buying here because the inventory was low so prices went up.... example, list price $500k, contract at $575k because of a bidding war, appraiser said house worth $500k so $75k had to come out of buyer's pocket, buyer got 100% loan for $500k. Seller went looking for new home, found him/herself in the same scenario, if looking in the same area.
When the market re-corrected itself, that home fell back to $375k. Prices are starting to go up, but one has to hold onto the house as a "long term" investment.
Back in my day, working couples used one income to qualify for a mortgage, thus they bought smaller less expensive homes to start out with. That way, if one stopped working, that one income that was left could still pay the mortgage.
I just finished work but this has been on my mind . let that damned house go and never look back . very few people during this recession have actually been evicted from their homes . most bought houses that were artificially overvalued , many with predatory loans . when the market reset itself and the home values plummeted , most owed more than the houses were worth and just walked away . love and take care of your mom and youll end up wealthy beyond most peoples comprehension . money does not equate to wealth .
all anyone really needs is a freakin shack . that's happening all over the world right now . people are tired of being enslaved to corporation and banks and many are moving into shacks not much bigger than garden sheds and semi retiring to enjoy life . the mcmansions have became liabilities . I could see it coming 25 yrs ago ..
When i was younger i was pulling my jumpers down from the closet and a live mouse fell in my hair and got his feet? caught i screamed the house down until my brother came to the rescue he then said "why are you screaming the poor little things more scared of you than you are of him" oh piss off bro!
Last month I thought S/O was going to jump up onto a chair when he saw a chipmunk in the house..... I knew I was going to be in for a long evening trying to direct that critter out the front or back door.
I have to thank my Dad, he taught me well. Not afraid of most insects, but I will go after a Wasp with a can of Raid if I can't get it to leave the premises on its own. I can handle worms, crickets, praying manthis, live mice, chipmunks, small turtles, not afraid of cows, horses, goats, or any other 4 legged livestock. Been chased by a goose once :)
Freqflyer, LOL he HAD the energy for yard work, but he used it for Golf.
Hope, brother probably still expects mom to feed him like a nestling.
jlkkts- take a nap, you deserve one.
Anywho, we got ten bags of the real old fashioned stuff My S/O lift the bags out of the vehicle and carried the bags to the back yard... then I opened the bags and he dumped the mulch... I raked it to where ever I needed it.
Afterwards he was tired, so was I [we are both pushing 70 years old].... then he said 10 years ago he said he had more energy to do yard work.... I had to bite my tongue.... this man was NEVER EVER into yard work, I was the one who did 99% of it.... [sigh].
HAPPY SUNDAY! My son turns 33 today. 2nd Birthday I've missed. :((
Yes, we "vac" the house. Hoover was a US President and a lousy one who picked his nose when the Great Depression hit in 1929. Homeless people back then lived in shanty towns known as "Hoovervilles".
OH gm its not uncommon here to not have insurance especially when times are hard but its not that expensive so ill get it sorted asap! Just need family to wake up now!
I guess we are a bit too laid back here with things and count on the "ol luck of the irish".
Yeh and we call vaccuming "hoovering" here? i hope thats not something rude in the states? guess we call it that after "hoover" who invented the vaccum?
You say tomato we say tomatoe............potato potatoe!!!!!!!!!!
So you call a stove a cooker? And the burners on the stove rings? Learn something new every day.
Um. Yes, get the fridge and the cooker onto separate circuits. Have you had Social Services round to look at home safety? - 'cos you might be able to get some help with that, or at least an approved electrician who only charges "mates' rates".
Before she wasn't able even to do this much, I used to leave my mother's supper microwave-ready, on a plate, in the microwave, with the time and level set so that LITERALLY all she had to do was press 'Start', take the plate out when it beeped, and eat. But I'm not sure your mother would co-operate with that much babying?
The only other thing I can think of is explaining to your friend/s; maybe if they could come and meet you at your house before you go out together it'll cure the frustration of being late? Depends on the friend of course, but good ones won't mind.
the only way i could handle this was to tell her in a soft non threatening voice that maybe dont touch the cooker when im not here as youre getting a bit forgetful! YIKES!
I may call an electrician to see if he can do something with the fuses as the cooker fuse is linked to the fridge fuse so i cant knock both out?
This is getting a bit too common now and the stress now as leaving her alone is building up shes been lucky so far but everybodys luck runs out one day?
What do you guys do to avoid this happening? its very scary and so lucky AGAIN that i was there?