Counting My Pennies

  • Home
  • About
  • Contact
  • Popular Posts
  • Toolkit

Cardboard Box Chic

March 28, 2011 By Megan

That’s my new decorating style.  It’s pretty fabulous.  Boxes as seating, boxes as decorations, boxes as tables.  Cheap, but not so durable.

Unpacking is going slowly, if you haven’t figured it out.  Part of the problem is my social life.  Oh, I know, my life is so hard.  Actually, it just happened that months ago, I made commitments for Saturday and Sunday of this past weekend, which meant I was out having fun (in the ridiculously cold weather) and not inside unpacking boxes.

As expected, we’ve found a few quirks with the house.

First off, we were inundated with pill bugs.  I did a bunch of research and ended up cleaning up the flower beds near the house and caulking underneath the door.  Voila!  The pill bug problem has all but vanished.  I just have a bit more caulking and sealing to do and I think we’ll be golden.

We discovered that the plumbing was essentially backwards in the master bathroom – so in the shower, the hot water was cold and the cold was hot.  Not a problem if you have dual handles.  Which I don’t.  So I had to have that fixed.

Then, using my powers of observation and Google, I discovered that the hot water heater was connected backwards.  That was a bit harder to fix, but it’s been taken care of.  I actually got in touch with the seller’s realtor and ended up not paying a single cent to have that fixed.  After all, they marketed the house as having a brand new hot water heater.  Not so great when it’s installed improperly.

I’m sure there will be more quirks appearing, but I’ll just have to wait and see on that one.  Next step is finishing the unpacking.  One of these days, anyway.

Love Counting My Pennies?

Sign up to get our latest content by email.

Success! Now check your email to confirm your subscription.

There was an error submitting your subscription. Please try again.

Powered by ConvertKit

Filed Under: homes

Comments

  1. Foggy Dew says

    March 29, 2011 at 10:50 am

    Sounds like slow going. I just bought a new place a month ago and was still unpacking boxes last night – mainly because my dad is coming to stay this weekend. No problems yet, I’m keeping an eye out. It’ll be strange not being able to just put in a maintenance request…

  2. Alison says

    March 29, 2011 at 11:07 am

    Just remember… they say that 90% of what you’re going to do to a new place happens in the first two months. After that, people start to get used to everything. So at least take care of the broad strokes… Or boxes WILL become your furniture. 🙂

Follow Us

  • Facebook
  • Pinterest
  • RSS
  • Twitter

Success! Now check your email to confirm your subscription.

There was an error submitting your subscription. Please try again.

Survey Junky

Archives

Blogroll

  • Airline Miles Experts
  • All Things Finance
  • AllFinancialMatters
  • Always the Planner…
  • Amelia's Healthy Life
  • Beachgirl's Budget Blog
  • Blogging Away Debt
  • Blonde and Balanced
  • Budget and Invest
  • Budget and the Bees
  • Budgets are Sexy
  • Cafe Credit
  • Cash Cow Couple
  • Cash Money Life
  • Cash the Checks
  • Centsai
  • Chief Family Officer
  • Clever Dude
  • Consumerism Commentary
  • Critical Financial
  • Dad Dollars
  • Dual Income No Kids
  • Engineer Your Finances
  • Everybody Loves Your Money
  • Finance Footing
  • Fine Tuned Finances
  • fivecentnickel.com
  • From Frugal to Free
  • Frugal Babe
  • Generation X Finance
  • Girls Just Wanna Have Funds
  • Green Panda Treehouse
  • Her Every Cent Counts
  • I am 1 Percent
  • I Will Teach You To Be Rich
  • Kids Ain't Cheap
  • Make Love, Not Debt
  • Make Money Your Way
  • Modest Money
  • Money Bumper
  • Money Musings
  • Money Smart Guides
  • More Than Finances
  • Mrs. Micah
  • My Little Backpack Adventures
  • My Open Wallet
  • My Stockmarket Basics
  • My work from home Money
  • Newlyweds on a Budget
  • Our Debt Free Family
  • Out of Debt Again
  • Outlier Model
  • Peer Finance 101
  • Peer Loans
  • Penny Thots
  • Plunged in Debt
  • Poor and Wise
  • Reach Financial Independence
  • Rockstar Finance
  • Save the Bills
  • Saving Advice
  • Sense to Save
  • Stack the Chips
  • Stapler Confessions
  • Suburban Finance
  • Sustainable Family Finances
  • The Dividend Guy Blog
  • The Dough Roller
  • The Free Financial Advisor
  • The Frugalpreneur
  • The Reluctant Landlord
  • The Savvy Scot
  • The Simple Dollar
  • Thousandaire
  • Tightwad Travelers
  • Wallet Hacks
  • What's the Cost
  • Wise Bread



Binaryoptionrobotinfo.com is the best resource for binary trading.

online real estate investing
Binary Options trading made easy at 7binaryoptions.com.

Categories

Copyright © 2018 · Runway Pro On Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in