[FnG] Lambik wrote: I see, Erin is the lucky one being on the laptop, AND have control over the powerswitches at her feet
I think if she can find the right lead amongst the spagettia to powerdown me without taking out the router then she probably
We got rid of the horrible brick fireplace and I made a box inside for the skybox/dvd/wii etc which goes with
the new ultraflat smarty pants tv . Oboviusly this is sealed above and vented just below the TV (vent is painted same as walls
to hide it a bit) . Also the dvd rack is one I threw together quickly on saturday from old bits of wood I had left over.
We replaced all the carpets as they were 'catty' and put in a bigger radiator as the old one was too small for the room.
(I had a 3ft painting fall on me when I was asleep on the sofa as a child.... the skys falling in syndrome)
Stripped all the wallpaper, and then STRIPPED the paint below the wallpaper as it had gone 'strange; painted.
And before you say she hasn't enough cudderly toys you are missing the huge pile at the other end of the room.
She and andrea also have a 'craft' room where all there gubbins are kept (in the overhead cupboards recycled from the main bed)
I'm still waiting for a splashback for the kitchen to complete that, and then I'll do some photos for there.
BTW just for the record we feel so freaking lucky combined with guilty at moving to if not a new dream
home, at least the best house we can ever expect to own and able to make it 'nice' before we moved in.
Hoping to stay here until we retire in 25 years time. The house is actually bigger than we need (4 bedrooms) because sooner or later
Guilty because I know so many people (especially those under 30) in our country stand no chance of buying a house at all
because the whole property market is over inflated, and the buy to let market is strangling the younger generation
b) we saved like hell. - no smoking / drinking only once a week (COD night!)/ very few meals or nights out or takeaways, 1 proper holiday in 9years)
Most of our days out involving walking with a picnic - and you can't really get much cheaper than that!
Although we are both on modest salaries (for graduates) £15 - 20K each before tax in that 10 years we saved £50K and thats thats not including
c) low interest rates also meant we were able overpaid the mortgage by £200 -£400 a month meaning we had more equity
By the time we left , because we offsetted our savings against the mortgage, the interest on the mortgage a month was £4 -£10
So most of £700 a month mortgage payment was accumulating equity rather than if we had rented it would of all gone down the tube.
d) Although we paid for the house ourselves we had a parental contribution towards the new boiler for the new house, carpets and decorating.
e) We were able to port our old mortgage accross at very good rates with no fees, 1% above base rate lifetime tracker is pretty unbeatable in this market.
Oh Hanno, what an assumption to make, of course she knows which switch it is, she has just lulled you into a false sense of security to make you think she has no idea, she probably programs the time delay recording for the tele also
[FnG] RampantBunny wrote: Don't feel guilty Hanno, sounds like you worked hard and saved hard for it..aka you earned it!
Don't feel guilty for doing the right thing, you did change your lifestyle for quite some time to save money, that is something the 'under 30' generation hardly do.
Btw. the "later I will probably end up working from home full time" is something you should feel guilty about
The other end of the room is a utility area - which again I had to move the sink and cut another hole.
Well... you must understand that we are an international community, mostly based in the US, the Netherlands, the UK and Germany. As such, the language on this forum is mostly English. I hope Google Translate will make this comprehensible...