In the scheme of things I suppose you will have to grin and bear the $5K, but wow wow wow, nearly there!It’s awith a touch of
for all the stress trying to get it back before COB. Plus it turns out they forgot to cost our heating/cooling into the contract so we need to find another $5k
thats terribleIt’s a
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Nothing really surprises me at this point. We signed the quote on the day but somehow they never sent us the paperwork for it so it didn’t make it into the final costing (we still need to double check but not tonight, I’m over it). We should have our permit by next Friday and they have to start within three weeks so won’t be too much longer. Sounds like they’ve admitted that things have gone badly and it should never have taken this long. Not that it helps us now. I just want to be in the house well before the end of the year.thats terrible
Hopefully it will go better from now - it should be more simple once you are through this phase. And yes a double check is worthwhile just in case!
Tell me in a month or two how they goI visited BigW today.
That said, we only need 2 sets of sheets as we only have one bed so it's not all bad. You would be surprised how much space I have freed up by tossing out sheets.
I have just started on the linen/toy cupboard upstairs in my decluttering quest. I haven’t started on the linen yet (Mr FM’s toys er games are currently occupying me), but just eye balling the shelves, I reckon there is an awful lot of sheets and towels I can get rid of, even keeping a few sets for guests.On the sheets topic, our bed has a very deep mattress so most of the cheaper fitted sheets which are only 40cm depth don't fit.
As we don't put guests up at our place, I managed to get rid of lots of sheets and older towels (though I do like towels so they were harder to cull).
Exciting. Hope you have somewhere safe to store it till the new house is built.
In the garage with everything else.
yes - would like to not have visitors, because I am anti social, but can’t see that happeningAs we don't put guests up at our place, I managed to get rid of lots of sheets and older towels (though I do like towels so they were harder to cull).
And if anyone is wondering if we are particularly anti-social, as we have 5 hotels within a minute or two's walk, we book visitors in to one of them. If going to be for more than a day or so, we will book an apartment for them. We don't have overnight guests very often and so it makes sense for us.
You just have to be ruthless FM and if you find you've gone a bit too far, you can always buy new ones.
. I am getting more ruthless by the day, although sometimes I feel I am just rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic .
And I think you have many chairs to rearrange, given MrFM’s collections.yes - would like to not have visitors, because I am anti social, but can’t see that happening
Knowing the colour will save you so much down the line.
I remember when we were first married we rented a half house in Carnegie (Vic). At one stage we had a dart board hanging on one of the doors (as you do). When we were leaving we thought we had better paint over the panel where the darts that missed the board landed. Assumed it was a white door but as the house was very old, the white had turned to a grimy cream colour.
Never mind, the owner never even went inside and just gave us the bond back. House is long gone now.
