Real Estate Field Trip and Other Assorted Weekend Doings

On Saturday, M and I did a little real estate tour of all of the houses I had been stalking online. We have decided that the town we live in is too expensive for us to be able to buy there, or if we did buy there the house wouldn't be big enough and would need a ton of work. We started branching out and discovered, obviously, that the further away from the city you get, the more affordable things are. And they have the amenities and space we're looking for. And this would come with a long commute so it will be some give and take for sure. We're not ready to actually start looking looking, but we're going to start going to some open houses just to get a sense of what we could actually get for what we're willing to spend. If we stumble on somethign that is a total steal, we would consider it but otherwise, we're going to keep the cheddar accumulating at our almost non existent interest rate hoping to beef up our down payment to reduce mortgage payments. Just to get a sense of the status of things in our neck of the woods, there are two homes in the entire city selling for $349.9k. This is the cheapest price and both homes are 970 ish square feet, 2 beds 1 bath and total total fixer uppers. Some of the cities we looked at further out don't even have listings priced that high, it would be entirely possible to get a 1250+ square foot home with 3 beds and 1-1.5 baths for 260-300k. Now you see how it would be stupid for us not to move from our 'hood.




I also managed to get in a little shopping this weekend...it's always at this time of year where I start to feel really really sick of wearing the same old sweaters and I wander out into the nearest mall hoping that I will suddenly be inspired by some really awesome and novel ideas in the new spring line. No! Either I'm really boring and keep gravitating to the same things or the same things are constantly being touted as 'New for Spring'. I think it's a little of column A and a little of Column B. I ended up with a black V neck on clearance at Tristan, a few camisoles at the Gap to put under said V neck, and some fun lipsticks from Sephora. I already have more lipstick than I know what to do with so I forced myself to throw out some really old ones that are lingering from my days as a CVS pharmacy techinician back in the early 2000's. I also purchased this T shirt from McSweeney's, a web site featuring short stories and other literary submission categorized into a variety of themes. It never lets me down and always leaves me laughing so I try to support them in troubled times!