Impulse Buys
Hey, everybody's done it: You're in the express lane at the grocery store and you see that they're going to clone Jesus so you pick up a copy of the Inquirer and who can read the Inquirer without eating a Slim Jim? Nobody, that's who.
Well, Nell and I are big-time impulse buyers. We've learned to control it over the years, for the most part. But there have been moments in our lives where we just bought the thing and then were blown away that we bought them later.
Take our bed, for instance. I had about 2Gs worth of tuition reimbursement. Well, obviously we had to buy iPods, that was a given. But what about the rest of the cash? Welp, we were sleeping on a crack-house bed, i.e. just a mattress on the floor so we decided we would drop a solid grand on a decent bed. We set out early for a long day of bed-shopping and price comparisons. The first store we stopped at was just about a block from our home, the illustrious (sing it with me) Mattress LAAAAAAND. After about 6.32 minutes of browsing, we went ahead and bought a nice Certa with the individually wrapped springs. To this day it sleeps like a dream (get it?) and we've always been happy with it.
Then you got the White Ninja. You all know and love it as the rockin'est fuckin' fuck machine on the road. We applied for credit online with a car place and got approved. So we went in that Saturday, ready to test-drive a car or two and then compare notes with some other dealerships. Imagine our surprise when we drove home an '03 Focus! Talk about impulse buys!
Today we were thinking, "Hey, how could we possibly top the impulse purchase of a fucking car?" And that's when it hit me, we'd buy a house! So I made a quick phone call and we headed out to Spanish Spring around 4:00 to look at a house. By 4:20 (smoke 'em if you got 'em) we were signing paper work.
The sellers want to move to another school district and they want to do it soon so they knocked off $30,000 off the price and offered to pay all the buyer/seller fees. On top of that, the guy that's doing the finance is the mook that lost our info when we were looking for a house in '03 then blew us off. Our realtor sends him a LOT of business and was apalled that he'd been so unprofessional so she went ahead and got him to do the financing for FREE!!!
It is literally not going to cost us a penny of actual cash to buy this joint. Sure, we'll still have to sell our souls, but neither of us have much use for 'em.
So anyway, we'll be moving in on the 22nd of July so keep your calendars open!!
Rev. Joshua 'n' Sister Nell
P.S. We need to find something that will blow impulse-buying a house out of the water for this time in '07 or early '08 so put on your thinking caps!
Well, Nell and I are big-time impulse buyers. We've learned to control it over the years, for the most part. But there have been moments in our lives where we just bought the thing and then were blown away that we bought them later.
Take our bed, for instance. I had about 2Gs worth of tuition reimbursement. Well, obviously we had to buy iPods, that was a given. But what about the rest of the cash? Welp, we were sleeping on a crack-house bed, i.e. just a mattress on the floor so we decided we would drop a solid grand on a decent bed. We set out early for a long day of bed-shopping and price comparisons. The first store we stopped at was just about a block from our home, the illustrious (sing it with me) Mattress LAAAAAAND. After about 6.32 minutes of browsing, we went ahead and bought a nice Certa with the individually wrapped springs. To this day it sleeps like a dream (get it?) and we've always been happy with it.
Then you got the White Ninja. You all know and love it as the rockin'est fuckin' fuck machine on the road. We applied for credit online with a car place and got approved. So we went in that Saturday, ready to test-drive a car or two and then compare notes with some other dealerships. Imagine our surprise when we drove home an '03 Focus! Talk about impulse buys!
Today we were thinking, "Hey, how could we possibly top the impulse purchase of a fucking car?" And that's when it hit me, we'd buy a house! So I made a quick phone call and we headed out to Spanish Spring around 4:00 to look at a house. By 4:20 (smoke 'em if you got 'em) we were signing paper work.
The sellers want to move to another school district and they want to do it soon so they knocked off $30,000 off the price and offered to pay all the buyer/seller fees. On top of that, the guy that's doing the finance is the mook that lost our info when we were looking for a house in '03 then blew us off. Our realtor sends him a LOT of business and was apalled that he'd been so unprofessional so she went ahead and got him to do the financing for FREE!!!
It is literally not going to cost us a penny of actual cash to buy this joint. Sure, we'll still have to sell our souls, but neither of us have much use for 'em.
So anyway, we'll be moving in on the 22nd of July so keep your calendars open!!
Rev. Joshua 'n' Sister Nell
P.S. We need to find something that will blow impulse-buying a house out of the water for this time in '07 or early '08 so put on your thinking caps!
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