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I’ve been busy as a beaver working on my home and (yesterday and) today the focus was the dining room. A couple of months ago, I kind of goofed: I tried to touch up the paint in the dining room… Only I used the wrong paint, and didn’t realize it until it dried. And then [...]
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We have one more week of peace in this home before our house is officially on the market. I contacted a realtor through Dave Ramsey’s ELP (Endorsed Local Providers) program on his website and she came by this morning to check out the house. Overall, I was quite pleased and impressed with her, both personally [...]
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Inquiring minds have been wanting to know…
The bathroom before:
And after…
Look! There’s a toilet!
And a shower curtain. And baseboard. Which you can’t see, but it’s just as well. Because I still need to touch it up with some paint.
But it’s major progress. And it looks put together, which is the main thing. And there’s a toilet! [...]
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A couple of days ago I noticed a section of the carpet near the kitchen was wet. I figured the kids spilled some water so I got some rags and soaked it up. The next day, the same spot was wet again.
Uh, oh. What are the odds of the kids spilling the same amount of [...]
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I perused a new (to me) blog last night per Becky’s recommendation in the comments on my last post about preparing our house to sell. The Nester’s series on Staging a Home pretty much confirmed everything I am trying to do around here to get this house ready to sell, though I did come away [...]
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I promise I’ll move on to more number crunching and budget drudgery soon, but you’ll have to excuse me a little longer as I continue to deal with the news of this upcoming move and the consuming preparation of getting this house ready to sell. It seems every time I get one thing done on [...]
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Many, many years ago, in a tiny coffee shop on a corner of Alvarado Street in Monterey, California, just down the hill from a military language school, a young Army linguist-in-training spied a young Air Force linguist-in-training at a table with some of her fellow linguist-in-training friends. The young Army man was quite taken with [...]
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My friends Lucy and Bill once told me about a friend of theirs who came and lived with them a short time to help them with some projects on their fixer-upper. They had just bought an old home in rural Ohio –parts of it were over 100 years old. But additions had been made over [...]
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You may have noticed that I like to share some “Good Reads” with you guys once a week or so. These are usually blog posts that I have enjoyed and found pertinent to the theme of this blog. Some weeks I share more than others… Usually simply because some weeks I am able [...]
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Head on over to Mommy Snacks and check out Part Deux of my article talking about the allowance system we created for our teenage son!
I actually wrote it a couple of months ago (as you may notice since when you read it and I refer to the Winter Season!) and it’s interesting for me to [...]
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