<$Monday, July 23, 2007$>
Carnival time!
| Happy Monday, folks. This week's Carnival of Personal Finance is hosted by Fat Pitch Financials, and features my Speaking of, we spent Friday on yet another unfruitful rental-housing hunt. We checked out a townhouse that I quite liked, but Husband was concerned that, it being an older property, it would leak energy and cost a fortune to keep cool. I was ready to put up a fight about it, but even though it had some great features, it was also lacking in some that were pretty high on my priority list (such as laundry hook-ups), and what I mostly liked about it was its location. I was ready to sacrifice a lot of practicalities for the sake of living in a trendy neighborhood, and that's just... not smart. So we let that one go. After a heart to heart, we decided that we might not be as ready to move as we think we are, anyway. We need to get the cars taken care of, and that will put a big dent in our savings. With Husband getting ready to start classes again, it's probably for the best if we focus on car repairs, and then on rebuilding our savings, while he focuses on his classes. Come winter break we ought to have a better idea of what we can realistically afford, and maybe by then we'll have better luck finding something that suits us. Of course, this means six more months of commuter hell, which I'm definitely not looking forward to. At least gas prices are on a downswing, so that's something. Labels: house-hunt, personal |
