We Own a House

February 28, 2007
3:05 pm

Sarah and I bought a house. It just closed this morning. We’re very excited.

Lowe’s and Home Depot suddenly have a lot more appeal to me. To use a groan-worthy software analogy, my living space is now open source. I can modify it to suit my purposes.

20 Responses to “We Own a House”

  1. Lloyd Budd | February 28th, 2007 at 5:30 pm:

    Congratulations!
    (We are getting old.)

    Julia and I were really close, but had to back out. We are back to looking in this market, that is among the three most expensive in Canada, but no where near the costs of many of the major US cities.

  2. Erik J. Barzeski | February 28th, 2007 at 5:40 pm:

    Lowe’s and Home Depot are your new best friends. Do all that you can to get the 10% off coupons you can get when moving/buying a new house.

    Congratulations.

  3. High Desert Wanderer | March 1st, 2007 at 9:42 am:

    If I just signed over my paychecks to Home Depot, I think I’d come out ahead.

  4. Barry in CO | March 5th, 2007 at 6:12 am:

    >To use a groan-worthy software analogy, my living space is now open source.

    Then add Home Depot to your Favorites, because you’ll be at their site downloading stuff every weekend from now on.

  5. Travis Quinnelly | March 5th, 2007 at 12:19 pm:

    Congrats!

    Home ownership is an amazing adventure. Welcome to the ride.

  6. Chris Stark | March 11th, 2007 at 3:53 am:

    It’s amazing how owning a home increases your awareness of sites like HomeDepot and Lowe’s. Pretty soon you’ll be judging other peoples property, estimating values, and shopping at Home and Garden :)

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  8. David Precious | April 4th, 2007 at 6:58 am:

    Congratulations to both of you!

    I should be experiencing the joys of home ownership for the first time next week too… due to move in to my new place on the 12th, all going well! (Fingers crossed).

    A trip to Ikea may well be in order soon…

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  11. Heinrich | July 17th, 2007 at 9:35 am:

    Congratulations! I can imagine your excitement. I haven’t had the luck until now. I blame to the fact that houses are probably more expensive in Germany. ;o)

  12. John | August 10th, 2007 at 3:45 pm:

    Never mind buying your first home, try any home. The “improvements” can add up quickly. Especially . Good luck in the future

  13. The Teak Garden Bench | August 24th, 2007 at 11:08 pm:

    Boy you hit a thread about the box stores all of a sudden becoming popular. It’s always fun to fix things up. I’m in the garden - actually the shop fixing up my garden furniture. That keeps me going.

  14. Sam | September 30th, 2007 at 4:18 am:

    Yea me too.. The garden is the fun part of buying a new house. Mainly cause you have to start from stratch. Oh and id like to let you into http://www.discountspies.com/home-depot-coupons/ . And which do you dig? Wood or metal furniture in the garden?

  15. option strategies | September 30th, 2007 at 8:48 pm:

    you have come closer to being free. well, at least in terms of being free from paying the rent.
    and yes, you right. whenever you buy or have something new, suddenly everything related to this new thing becomes interesting too. when you have a baby you will read everything concerning soothers, right :)

  16. option strategies | September 30th, 2007 at 8:51 pm:

    you have come closer to being free. well, at least in terms of being free from paying the rent.
    and yes, you are right. whenever you buy or have something new, suddenly everything related to this new thing becomes interesting too. when you have a baby you will read everything concerning soothers, right? :)

  17. Video izle | October 5th, 2007 at 5:08 pm:

    thanks

  18. Alan | October 18th, 2007 at 1:43 am:

    Congrats, in germany house and property is quite expensive these days. At least I can afford a nice car! :-)

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  20. Dale | December 17th, 2007 at 5:27 am:

    Congrats you can now put a nail in the wall and not have to worry about the real estate

    Dale
    http://dzrbenson.com/blog/

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