Closing

A month ago Kyle and I put an offer on a house, well okay we but several offers on several house some that had no carpet, others that smelled of pet, and some that were a little quirky. The amount of houses we looked at was disheartening to say the least. But one day, when we were looking at puppies particularly the day we got Archibald, our agent called us and told us you have to look at this house well because we were looking at puppies and it was first come first serve basis we had a time limit. We shot over to the house and found it to be perfect without hesitation we said make our max offer and off we went. Well our offer got accepted out of the other 6 that were put on that same weekend. Then the waiting game began. We had accepted a short sale and we learned there is nothing short about a short sale. Everyone kept telling us that it would take 6 to 9 months and since out lease was up with our apartment we were staying with my parents and 6 to 9 months is a long time to be infringing on their hospitality. To increase the tension the house had been refinanced so we had to wait on two banks to give approval. The first bank gave approval within two weeks the second bank was being sold to another bank and that wouldn't go through until mid-April. All of this start to get our hopes of getting out of my parents anytime soon down but low and behold yesterday the banks called and gave us their approval. According to the contract May 21st is the latest we will take possession. Finely I can sleep in a queen bed again (Kyle and I have been sharing a twin for a month), cook in my own kitchen and decorate my first house. It should be fun!    

Is There a Support Group For This?

I love estate sales (not yard/garage sales they're usually junk) but old people getting rid of all their stuff usually ends up with really cool finds such as my awesome granny smith apple green high wing back chair for $20. Great right? Well you see Kyle and I have this problem, while most people collect stamps, coins or other little trinkets we collect books. Not just a few as of a week ago we had over 600 titles in our possession; all of which are cataloged categorized (fiction alphabetically by author and nonfiction in the Dewey decimal system) this collection does not include magazines, workbooks, or other such materials nor duplicate copies. When we first got married I knew I had this problem and after an estate sale learned my dearest husband did too, when he purchased a Freemason's life collection of books. To be honest that collection was a little odd but had some very interesting titles that made their way onto my bookshelves. 600 titles not so bad. I was home schooled I tons of people (with oodles of children) that have thousands of books. The problem is that they are not in their twenties and they have kids. If that was the end I would say not a problem. But when you see a bookstore and must go in and always come out with a stack of books you have a bit of a problem. Now for the real issue: this weekend there was an estate sale, tons of books. Kyle put a bid on all the books left over after the weekend that we would pick up Monday. Well since he has a job that requires him to work Monday the we he talked about ended up being a me (and my siblings that did such a great job). Before I detail I must say in Kyle's defense he thought it would be a car load (in my Subaru wagon) however when books are spread amongst three stories in every room of a minimum of 1800 square feet (the house was larger but I'm not sure how big) house and garage estimating can be difficult. It took three trips with my mom's minivan seats taken out stacked to the top to clear out those books. I started counting the books and gave up less than a third of the way through when I got to 2000. Granted with multiple titles and ones we don't need or want(not really into self help, needle point, or subpar science fiction) there are only about a thousand books. So in one day we have more than doubled our collection and now my husband is suggesting when we close on the house (oh yeah we're buying a house, perhaps another entry) that we do it to make some extra money on a regular basis, crazy man. Okay, just to clarify Kyle is not the only one after saying he was sorry I said its okay I needed these to fill the bookshelves I'm going to buy for the front room plus the sorting of keep sell was my job (plus my list of books we "need" because they're classics, out of print, ect.) My only question is where do the book buyers anonymous support group meeting?