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!
posted by Ueberyak at 10:23 PM
15 Comments:
Well, it sure is a good thing I checked this out today, or I might never have found out about the house until 2008, huh? Good luck. Tell me more about the house that you shopped so hard for.
LOL! Hi, mom! I'm glad to see you're stopping by. I was going to wait until we got the loan all straightened out this afternoon to call you.
It's a great place: 3 bedrooms, 2.5 bath (2 upstairs, .5 downstairs), family room and living room, 2 car garage, a little play house in the back yard as well as an above-ground pool. I don't know if we'll keep the pool or not. It will mainly depend on how much it costs to maintain.
The floors downstairs are all wood laminate and there is fairly new carpet upstairs. There are tons of closets and storage space throughout.
We are so excited!! We will actually have rooms for people to sleep in we they come to visit!! It has a cherry tree and an apricot tree to!
Here's more on the house:
1648 square feet
3 bedrooms upstairs
2.5 baths, 2 full upstairs 1/2 downstaris
2 car garage
1/3 acre lot
above ground pool (huge)
RV access
cul-de-sac
completely remodeled with new dual pane windows, hardwood floors, carpet, paint new gas fireplace all new appliances including the refrigerator, gas stove/oven and washer and dryer.
Damn oh dear!! Good for youse guys.
(And, Hi, Beck!!)
I have already formed up an idear for your next impulse buy.
Head over to Dumb Crap for the info...after I post it...I don't know how to post photos in this "Comments" area.
By the way, are you guys gonna have a Mexican or two to do the yard work and take care of the house cleaning?
And...I don't mean to stick my nose in here too far...but, golly, that sounds like a really nice house in which to raise a BABY...
I'm jut saying...
Oh it's definatly a family home. Josh was saying that we'd wait until we for sure had a loan for a house before we started trying, but we were'nt planning on looking for a house till next spring. So we are still going to wait at the least 6months to start. Don't worry Papa you'll get your grand babies!!
Holy crap. I go one word for you...
woobideedoo.
Man, the place is great! Once we get the loan all squared away, signed-for, and official, we'll go back and take some pics and throw 'em up here.
a yacht.
that wouldn't top it - unless you bought 2. you might have to get a second job for that one.
that is seriously pretty sweet, but welcome to the great big world of something that might qualify as an actual commute, my friend.
if you need help moving, let me know. i can lift heavier things than you would think, and i'm always in a good mood when it's not me moving
Thanks! I'll probably take you up on that. We're already packing so we'll be able to blitzkrieg the move, hopefully. The goal is to do it quickly and in one trip. The more hands the better.
Just where in the hell is this house?? More importantly... when's the Yakfest?
It's in Spanish Springs, a subdivision of Sparks. It isn't all that far away from the house Nellbot and I used to rent. Right up the street from the Starbuck's there about.
I dunno just when the house warming party will be, yet. It will depend on how quickly we get settled in.
If'n you guys need some smallish (office depot legal size) boxes, let me know. We've got lots.
You need to git yer hooks into a mail-order bride for each uh yous. It would be pricey, but they'd pay for themselves with the pimpin' out of them, ya could do. You could then invite neighbors over and charge em $12.50 a go.
That's a wise investment if you ask me.
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