Long Week

It has been a very long week (April 16-20). I sold the car we needed to sell, because we did not feel that $3000 was a fair price to have it shipped to Alaska. The deal had been in the works for about three weeks. I am glad I was able to sell it and not have to do any serious advertising or anything like that. This happened on Monday.

On Tuesday, we got an offer on the house that I did not feel comfortable accepting on my own, so I had to wait to talk to my husband. He is time wise opposite of us, so I did not get to talk to him until late that night. We decided to accept the offer. I signed the paperwork on Wednesday, so we are officially under contract with the house. YAH! Huge YAH! It was a year in the  making, keep in mind I just switched to a new Realtor the week before on Tuesday, took 8 days to get it under contract. I truly believe and I think this shows, where your Realtor is does truly matter and that is unfortunate because we loved the first one we had.

After we started figuring up financing etc. for our part due on the house closing etc. We decided to sell the zero turn mower we have owned for about 2 years. Fantastic mower and I suggest everyone get one if you have an acre or more to mow. I listed it on Wednesday online, I sold it on Friday. I have had a busy week meeting people and closing deals.

I honestly hope the house process goes as smoothly as my other two closings did. It has been a sad week, to watch stuff we have acquired be bought for a steal. Long ago when we started getting a little money, we decided anything we bought would be bought for long term usage not buy it now and toss it in a few months. We tend to pay a little more for what we assume are better brands. To watch the items disappear from around the house or the yard is kinda strange. I do have to say that cleaning and clearing out items you do not need can be a liberating experience if you do not get emotionally attached to stuff. I tend to, I will not lie, I grew up with very, little mostly hand me down items. I really try to take care of what I have.

I guess we have passed this on to our son, he is one of the reasons the car had to be sold, he loves the car we bought in 1998. We ordered it when we came back from Japan, he was seven years old. He is 21 now, it is his car. This car is the bomb I gotta admit. Who else has a 98 Ford Escort 5 speed that has had two people learn to drive a stick shift on it, still have the original clutch? But it is ok, we are all attached to that car in one way or another, it has a lot of memories. For instance the right passenger side door in the back seat, has teeth marks from our then 3 year old daughter who was teething in the car on the way to the mall one late December night. Or the BIG RED stain still on the back floor board, a soda from my childhood I gave to the kids and it got spilled. The dent in the front quarter panel, that happened from a stray shopping cart, taught us to park uphill and away from everyone else, because they surely do not appreciate  your belongings as much as you do.