Frugal and Energy Efficient Living

Squinch

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13. I do understand this.

Mon Jan 20, 2014, 07:42 AM

Jan 2014

My mother passed last year, and my siblings and I spent a year updating the house we all grew up in to get it ready to sell. It's on the market now, and I keep going into some insane place where I take out a calculator and try and convince myself that I can afford to buy it.

Intellectually I know it is impossible, and the worst idea ever, and if I did it I would be forever house poor and fixing things that come up on an old house.

I think I am over the danger of actually going through with buying it, but I don't think I'll be completely safe till someone else closes on it.

PS: Great site. Thanks.

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Found another excellent savings website: Budget101.com [View all] IrishAyes Jan 2014 OP

That's a great site PumpkinAle Jan 2014 #1

Dang it! Curmudgeoness Jan 2014 #2

Live and learn, right? IrishAyes Jan 2014 #4

I hate to ask, but what happened? Squinch Jan 2014 #5

No apology needed; we're all here to learn from one another. IrishAyes Jan 2014 #6

Oh, yikes! Stories like this make me happy I live in an apartment. Squinch Jan 2014 #11

Hence the adage, "You don't own a house - it owns you." Worse than a boat! IrishAyes Jan 2014 #12

I do understand this. Squinch Jan 2014 #13

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I totally get it - I recently bought an old renovated cabin with just a crawl space ConcernedCanuk Jan 2014 #15

We who are about to freeze salute you! IrishAyes Jan 2014 #17

No, you are right, I did not pour de-icer salt in a drain. Curmudgeoness Jan 2014 #10

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me too! ConcernedCanuk Jan 2014 #16

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I owe other Duers far more than I can ever repay. IrishAyes Jan 2014 #8

I think you are the gift that keeps on giving. TxDemChem Jan 2014 #9

Sure you can ConcernedCanuk Jan 2014 #18

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