Disappointed

It seems like we’ve taken 3 steps forward this week and 2 steps back.

The sale of Bruce’s house has fallen through.

The guy that wanted to buy it is now having trouble raising the extra funds. Something about black marks at the Credit Reference Association and a dispute with Optus over a duplicate account. So he’s buying a place at the other end of the street instead. Good luck to him.

In the meantime... we are still packing.

The house is going to be easier to sell if it’s empty... so Bruce will move to my house as planned and it’s back to the drawing board with regard to our “house selling blitz/campaign”!

We plan to do some mini renovations to the house... new screens on some of the windows (hail damaged)... maybe some new carpet... not sure about new curtains as that’s a personal preference thing. After the major dust storms we’ve had there’s a fair bit of external cleaning to do too. And I might put in a few more plants too. Perhaps some impatiens to block the view under the house and give a nice soft edge... (Bruce says “we’ll see” – which is his way of saying “I don't think so”). I think it will improve the whole visual appeal... so it might happen one day while he’s at work... ;-)

We have a deadline for the sale - 31 December 2009. There’s a 50% discount on stamp duty that will save us thousands – and it expires at the end of this year. So we need to get our new house moving before then! No pressure at all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Over at my place it’s filling up rapidly. I’m sure we’ll fit it all in. The girls will be sharing a bed on their weekends... and at this stage we are hoping we’ll be able to leave that bed set up in the 3rd bedroom so they can sleep behind a closed door (instead of on a mattress in the lounge room). It all depends on how much stuff we can sqeeze into the 2nd bedroom.

This weekend is the final move and we have 2 lounge chairs, a fridge, a queen size bed, a double bunk with 2 mattresses, a desk, a bookcase, a washing machine and a TV unit to fit into a room that’s already half full. Let’s just say there will be some box shuffling happening this week in readiness for the weekend’s influx of furniture.

Oh wow... you know I do my best thinking in the shower... and when I’m typing!!! I just came up with a space saving idea!!! So I’m off to email it to Bruce to see what he thinks.

We can do it. We can do it. We can do it.