They can move my cold, dead body. I am never moving again. We have been actively doing this for a week now and we are STILL not moved out nor in.
First - I can't GIVE away my antique living room furniture that I have no room for. The charities won't take it. No one seems to want it. I don't know what I am going to do with it. I am about to simply take it to the dump.
I knew that my furniture in the remainder of the house was too heavy to move - at least for me with my deteriorating back, but OMG - the dust under it. And so many things that fell behind it. I am so embarrassed. SO much dust.
I still have a bathroom and the kitchen to empty, but most of the rest is done with the exception of the stuff that got strewn. We couldn't have done this without the help, but so much was just strewn about. So I have to get that all sorted.
Things are not all rosy at the "new" place either. We knew that the oven smelled of gas when it was turned on. I also KNEW going in that a new one was going to run $1500+. We had the appliance guy out yesterday to fix it, hook up the dryer and check the garbage disposer. He left - after $560 work, and the oven completely unusable now. The dryer needed a new gas fitting. The disposer was toast and leaking. He thought the oven required a new ignitor and thermostat. Well - he replaced the ignitor and it wouldn't light - AT ALL. Then trying to adjust that the gas line broke. So - we are looking at a new one. I so wish I could put in an electric oven, but I don't believe there is 220 behind that old one. I looked under the cooktop and it apparently was always gas. So - that is probably a pipe dream.
Shadow spends his time under my bed. He is a shy cat to begin with, but with all the people constantly in and out - he is just as his name implies just a shadow.
I am sure things will even out - eventually. But I surely know why we lowered our price to buy $20K and asked them to pay $5K of our closing costs. It is being eaten up quickly. PLUS G's truck broke today. When it rains ...
2 comments:
Oh no! I hope your stove problem gets fixed quickly, but appliance stores don't seem to do anything quickly anymore. I seriously considered putting in a gas stove here. I always hear how well they cook. But our house is so tight that it wold have caused moisture problems so I went with electric. I guess we always want what we can't have. ;)
I wish I had some advice on the antique furniture. Young people today want new, shoddily built over older, solid wood, well-built furniture. I don't understand it, but I guess once they get a few years under their belts and have expensive furniture that is splitting and falling apart, they will realize the value of real furniture.
Other than those problems, how do you like the new house?
I don't know how you are keeping your sanity!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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