OMG, Guise!!!!

stoneycakes

We put an offer in for a house yesterday and we just got back news that someone else has bid on it, too.  Now they're asking for our best offer!  Please cross your fingers for us.  Andplusalso, please feel free to place your randoms in this thread.  I need a distraction! I'll just be over here on the couch...

Into+the+Kitty

Good luck!

sarenu1

Good luck.

House buying is right up there with swim suit shopping for me.

unaveragejane

Fingers crossed for you, Stoney!!!

My randomness for the day is that the July crotch watch apparently is going to take for-EV-er. I had mild but regular contractions almost all day yesterday, then harder, irregular contractions for about 4 hours last night. Then everything completely stopped. I think I got 3 hours of sleep. I feel like crap, but DS and I still have to go get some groceries and make it through his 2 year check-up. Fun times.

mrshudson618

Good luck!

My random of today is that C got his first real boo-boo today. I thinks he's gonna have a black eye.

Also, his dr appt is in 35 min and I didn't give him a bath last night so his feet and legs are dirty from crawling around outside yesterday . Oops. Hope they don't think I neglect him

stoneycakes

mrshudson618 said:

Good luck! My random of today is that C got his first real boo-boo today. I thinks he's gonna have a black eye. Also, his dr appt is in 35 min and I didn't give him a bath last night so his feet and legs are dirty from crawling around outside yesterday . Oops. Hope they don't think I neglect him

The last time I brought DS to the ped, he was wearing Crocs.  The doctor took his shoes off and I was mortified to see that his feet were totally filthy from dirt getting into the holes of this shoes. The doctor just laughed.

stoneycakes

stringy813 said:

Also, when we go to open houses and see things like that, I find myself wanting to be friends with the people who live their based on the contents of the house. 

And then for the rest of the weekend BM and I alternate on whether or not we should put in an offer, kind of like this:

^^^Last time we house shopped this is exactly how it was.  This house we both reaaaaaallly want, though. It's so nice to agree

JEPES1348

Good luck, Stoney!

We have a total seller's market here, and we were in multiple offer situations on every house we wanted. We finally won out on our 3rd house. Fingers crossed for you!

CLLDLL

Aaaahh!  Just hearing that makes me nervous for you Stoney!  I hate house shopping.  Good luck to you though!!

 

My random: My work computer hates me.  It's taken over 5 minutes to try to download a file it normally takes 10 seconds to download.  I'm bumping while I wait.

Roxie5739

Good luck!! I hate and love buying a house. Soooo stressful but so much fun!

I am selling an Irwin CD on a FB board and the lady that wants it is messing around. Still not paying after a few days so I have put a time limit on her until I cancel the invoice. She was a hard sell, I think I took a photo of every possible angle of the CD, it was getting a little crazy. People play such stupid games......

sarenu1

CLLDLL said:

Aaaahh!  Just hearing that makes me nervous for you Stoney!  I hate house shopping.  Good luck to you though!!

 

My random: My work computer hates me.  It's taken over 5 minutes to try to download a file it normally takes 10 seconds to download.  I'm bumping while I wait.

I'm bumping while I wait for a 10 minute report.  The new reporting system is so slow...

Into+the+Kitty

Roxie5739 said:

Good luck!! I hate and love buying a house. Soooo stressful but so much fun!

I am selling an Irwin CD on a FB board and the lady that wants it is messing around. Still not paying after a few days so I have put a time limit on her until I cancel the invoice. She was a hard sell, I think I took a photo of every possible angle of the CD, it was getting a little crazy. People play such stupid games......

The first thing that comes to mind is that she wanted the pictures to try to scam someone into buying a 'diaper' from her. Irwins are up there in price now too, aren't they?

sarenu1

Into+the+Kitty said:

Roxie5739 said:

Good luck!! I hate and love buying a house. Soooo stressful but so much fun!

I am selling an Irwin CD on a FB board and the lady that wants it is messing around. Still not paying after a few days so I have put a time limit on her until I cancel the invoice. She was a hard sell, I think I took a photo of every possible angle of the CD, it was getting a little crazy. People play such stupid games......

The first thing that comes to mind is that she wanted the pictures to try to scam someone into buying a 'diaper' from her. Irwins are up there in price now too, aren't they?

This is just horrible, but probably true.  But then if I was buying a diaper over retail price, I would want a picture of it from every angle.  However, I'd also pay within 24 hours of agreeing to a price and being invoiced.

sarenu1

Since this is the Random Thread.

What do we think about Sweet Pea Covers in One Size?

CLLDLL

sarenu1 said:

Since this is the Random Thread.

What do we think about Sweet Pea Covers in One Size?

I love them. They are fairly big ( a tiny bit smaller than a OS coverall) and the PUL is stretchy like a Coverall. They seem to hold up well. I've been using one for a good 16 months now in pretty heavy rotation (no dryer drying) and it still looks new. The elastic has relaxed a bit, but nothing major. The only downfall IMO is the eight snaps at the waist. It's kind of a PITA to get them all snapped on a squrimy toddler...but they do prevent wing droop so you know worth it I guess.

Into+the+Kitty

stringy813 said:

Into+the+Kitty said:

Roxie5739 said:

Good luck!! I hate and love buying a house. Soooo stressful but so much fun!

I am selling an Irwin CD on a FB board and the lady that wants it is messing around. Still not paying after a few days so I have put a time limit on her until I cancel the invoice. She was a hard sell, I think I took a photo of every possible angle of the CD, it was getting a little crazy. People play such stupid games......

The first thing that comes to mind is that she wanted the pictures to try to scam someone into buying a 'diaper' from her. Irwins are up there in price now too, aren't they?

You mean like pretending to sell a diaper she doesn't even have? Why are people so awful? Geesh.

I was watching one of those day time court shows where someone sold an iPhone on eBay, and all they did was sell the PICTURE of the iPhone. For hundreds of dollars.

sarenu1

CLLDLL said:

Since this is the Random Thread.

What do we think about Sweet Pea Covers in One Size?

I love them. They are fairly big ( a tiny bit smaller than a OS coverall) and the PUL is stretchy like a Coverall. They seem to hold up well. I've been using one for a good 16 months now in pretty heavy rotation (no dryer drying) and it still looks new. The elastic has relaxed a bit, but nothing major. The only downfall IMO is the eight snaps at the waist. It's kind of a PITA to get them all snapped on a squrimy toddler...but they do prevent wing droop so you know worth it I guess.

Sold.  I may have a squirmy infant, but he's so skinny that the extra snaps might be worth the trouble.

Now to decide what covers to order.  Chevron Purple or red, Sliver, black, purple... Their colors look so bright.

stoneycakes

JEPES1348 said:

Good luck, Stoney!

We have a total seller's market here, and we were in multiple offer situations on every house we wanted. We finally won out on our 3rd house. Fingers crossed for you!

Did you change your technique when making your offer or do you think you just finally got lucky on the third one?

JEPES1348

stoneycakes said:

JEPES1348 said:

Good luck, Stoney!

We have a total seller's market here, and we were in multiple offer situations on every house we wanted. We finally won out on our 3rd house. Fingers crossed for you!

Did you change your technique when making your offer or do you think you just finally got lucky on the third one?

I think we finally just got lucky. We always had to submit our "best and highest," and we had to sit down and really decide what we were willing to pay. The comps for our area indicated that all the houses were listed above "market value," and they still all went for well over asking price. There was just a threshold where we said, "Okay, if we bought the house for X amount, would we feel like we got a great house, or like we overpaid?" Ultimately, it worked out, but it was a total crap shoot.

Hoping you have better luck and get the house you really want!

edit: Oh, and we didn't ask for any concessions, so we paid for all closing costs and didn't ask the seller for boo hiss. I think offers with concessions were laughed at around here.

countrycotton

Good luck. I hope you get the house!

On the same note, but totally random. DH and I love to look at real estate online. He has his heart set on buying a vacation home on the coast. But I would rather have a nice house in town and have the ranch be more for vacation. I just found an amazing 3200 sq ft home in a great neighborhood that is cheaper than his coastal house. He hates the idea of living in town, I hate the idea of a "vacation" six hours away where I am still in the middle of nowhere, and have to do all the cooking and cleaning. I think this is a no win for both of us. 

sarenu1

countrycotton said:

Good luck. I hope you get the house!

On the same note, but totally random. DH and I love to look at real estate online. He has his heart set on buying a vacation home on the coast. But I would rather have a nice house in town and have the ranch be more for vacation. I just found an amazing 3200 sq ft home in a great neighborhood that is cheaper than his coastal house. He hates the idea of living in town, I hate the idea of a "vacation" six hours away where I am still in the middle of nowhere, and have to do all the cooking and cleaning. I think this is a no win for both of us. 

Not only that, but you'd have to pay someone to maintain the property.   I'd rather just rent a home for that kind of money and not have to worry about the upkeep.

countrycotton

sarenu1 said:

countrycotton said:

Good luck. I hope you get the house!

On the same note, but totally random. DH and I love to look at real estate online. He has his heart set on buying a vacation home on the coast. But I would rather have a nice house in town and have the ranch be more for vacation. I just found an amazing 3200 sq ft home in a great neighborhood that is cheaper than his coastal house. He hates the idea of living in town, I hate the idea of a "vacation" six hours away where I am still in the middle of nowhere, and have to do all the cooking and cleaning. I think this is a no win for both of us. 

Not only that, but you'd have to pay someone to maintain the property.   I'd rather just rent a home for that kind of money and not have to worry about the upkeep.

I hadn't even thought of that! They makes this house even cheeper, of course with a house that big I would have to talk DH into a housekeeper at least once a week. But that's cheeper......right?

km_md

Good luck Stoney!! House buying is so fun but so stressful!

countrycotton

Another random. DD keeps crawling under the coffee table and getting stuck. Apparently she knows to duck her head to get under it, but not to get out. She gets SO mad, and fusses and fusses for me to save her. It's hilarious!

flummadiddle85

Good luck Stoney. I don't think it's was as bad here as it was for Jepes when we bought a house last August/September. But we put in a bid on a lot of houses, and we were usually too slow to put a bid on it (seller already accepted another offer), or we were outbid. Part of that was just the houses we were looking at though. The shortsales/foreclosures/not great condition homes sat on the market for a while, whereas the more desirable homes (that we were looking at) went way quicker. 

Relating to last weeks UO/FFFC (don't remember which), I was listening to the President talk on the radio in the car today about the whole Russia/Ukraine/downed plane mess, and he got to the end of his speech, and said "Thanks", not "Thank you". 

My random: I have this real nice mom asking me about scheduling her son in for lessons again. But she's not always quite with it in a number of ways. I kinda wish she would think about her email subject lines a little more though. Last fall, she sent one that was "Steve's privates" (not the kid's real name, and privates as in private lessons). The current one is just "Private" in the subject line. Someone could look at my email, and look at the subject lines just from her and get the wrong idea....

stoneycakes

Mapleme said:

And my random: I just dropped off the enrollment money for Ms daycare and holy crap I don't want my maternity leave to end! This is a really, really good day care and she's only going to be there 3 days/week and I even feel like there are a lot of benefits to day care over a kiddo staying with one caregiver. But she's my baby! And they do things differently than me! I really wish we could afford for me to stay home (and still have my business). Poo.

Have you thought about putting the daycare money towards hiring part-time help in the bakery instead?

stoneycakes

Okay, we put in our best offer.  I have this gut feeling that we're getting manipulated into paying more than we need to, but I guess we can never really know.  What I do know is that, while we may not be getting the steal of the century, this house has the potential to become a "forever" house for our family and I'm happy with the price we offered because of that.  If we don't get it, the other people must be even crazier than we are!!!!

stoneycakes

Oh I think we're going to find out by 5 o'clock, SAK.

bumpuser9353653

Good luck Stoney!

My random: A just had her 2 month appt today and she's 90th % for height! I know she may not stay that high, but I was shocked since I'm only 5'2" ... maybe she'll be tall like her daddy!

Also, DH and I love looking at real estate online. Both in our area and our potential move-to cities in CO. It's fun picturing all our stuff in the houses and what cosmetic changes we would make :-)

unaveragejane

@mapleme - Hopefully by the time your second is born, we will have the commune at MK's up and running. We can share childcare, farm chores, and the running of the bakery. Plus since yurts are so much cheaper than houses, we can all pitch in to buy a beach house and a house in town (perhaps Stoney's new digs?) and take turns being city mice and beach bums. We can all chip in on another Jules and set up a rotation so every kid gets to wear it at least once before PT. There should be so many of us that we can get a wholesale rate on TTs. It will be divine.

Into+the+Kitty

@MapleMe you can hire me too. You'll have to pay competing wages as well as for all my gas and any ferry charges. Plus I'll probably eat half of the stuff I bake, oh and also I require a designated nap time during working hours, and sign any work related emails with Peace! >- . But I'm really an awesome employee.

stoneycakes

Into+the+Kitty said:

@MapleMe you can hire me too. You'll have to pay competing wages as well as for all my gas and any ferry charges. Plus I'll probably eat half of the stuff I bake, oh and also I require a designated nap time during working hours, and sign any work related emails with Peace! >- . But I'm really an awesome employee.

Sounds like a good deal, @Mapleme.  You should probably call up the daycare and tell them you're not interested anymore.  Also, if ITK doesn't work out, I'd be willing to work under these conditions as well. 

Into+the+Kitty

ovenrack said:

Okay obviously Maple in in charge of the bakery and business side of the commune. MK is in charge of livestock... what/who else? I am good at being mean and baking/cooking (but not like maple), and graphic design.

Sorry...


but clearly if it's anyone's job to be mean it will be me.

stoneycakes

theultimatesak said:

wait, wait, wait.  so the rest of us have to cook and clean and care for livestock and teach the youngins and you just get to sit around and be mean?

Well, no.  My job will be official beer and gin taster.

stoneycakes

I'm also very good at making pizza.

stoneycakes

The "whore" one made me LLOL, ITK.

Into+the+Kitty

theultimatesak said:

wait, wait, wait.  so the rest of us have to cook and clean and care for livestock and teach the youngins and you just get to sit around and be mean?

bumpuser9353653

ovenrack said:

Okay obviously Maple in in charge of the bakery and business side of the commune. MK is in charge of livestock... what/who else? I am good at being mean and baking/cooking (but not like maple), and graphic design.

I'll hang out with the dogs and teach the kids to play rugby.  That's a legitimate job, right?