After three years of paying rent to my in-laws to live in their basement we’ve finally reached the financial point where we can move out. Praise God! It’s not that I don’t like my in-laws, I love ‘em. For the past three years we’ve gotten along marvelously and I’ll actually miss them quite a bit. But there’s just something about living on your own, as a family that can’t be beat. I’ll be about three blocks from work too so in theory I plan on walking to work every day it’s possible.
The house we’re moving into is tiny, 1,450 sq. ft. to be exact. I know that sounds ridiculously small, but it’s plenty big for the three of us. In several years if we decide to have another kid we may look into moving to a bigger house. Unfortunately we won’t have TV or internet until March 10th so I’m bracing myself for withdrawl. They say internet withdrawal is worse than coming off Heroine . . . and I don’t even have an iPhone. If you have an iPhone then you’re beyond hope.
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yuck I HATE moving, but I\’ve made my self a promise that next time I decide to move I will be hiring some help.
Best of luck.
We\’ve got a lot of friends coming over to help so hopefully we\’ll be mostly done before noon.
Congrats! 1450 sq. ain\’t so bad. At least it\’s all yours. We\’ll be looking after your site while you\’re offline. You know, spamming you and whatnot.
Have a great day. I\’ll be praying for you.
have fun unpacking
Congratulations, Ben. That\’s great.
1,450 is not small at all. I live in a 1,300 sq. ft. home and love it!
10 days w/out the web…ouch! Would probably be good for all of us to take a few days away. Congratulations on getting your own place.
Congrats on the new place Ben - We lived with four of us in a little over 1000 sq. ft. and did just fine. With 3 blocks to work I think you need to get my moped going!
Congrats Ben. That\’s great…except for the no Internet part. I can tell you that it is rough not having Internet or TV. When I got married I didn\’t have either for like 5 months. The only saving graces were I had a VCR and my parents would record some stuff for me and I had net access at work though limited in time and what I could visit (no Gmail, etc.).
BTW, 1,400 SQ. Feet is plenty. My house is only like 1600 sq. feet and we basically don\’t use an entire (large) room other than the closet. However, we don\’t have any kids.
Oh yeah, don\’t worry. I\’ll be helping Nathan SPAM your site
It sounds like I’m doing the opposite of you. We just sold our house (1580 square feet) and moved into my dad’s basement. We’ll live there for a little bit until we find a new place of our own in our new city.
But hopefully we won’t be there for too long. But the move was difficult. Had to get TWO trucks. So that meant two trips and lots of unloading. The Wife said that we won’t move into a rental house because that would be two more moves before we get into “our” house.