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[aslant]

another friday, another ill-advised hour wasted on zillow, creeping on houses i'm not buying, just dreaming about.

dear universe, i really like this one:

$200,000 in the southeast 50s.
2 bedrooms. a tiny 636 square feet.

but look, look:

tiny but well-ordered, open kitchen (exactly! yes! this!) and and and!!!

just look at that massive corner lot. all that space for street-adjacent plantings, never mind the yard itself for plantings, playing, etc.




i have to remind myself that it's not pointless to look at stuff-i-can't-have-right-now because it helps me figure out exactly what i do want, when the time comes.

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[aslant.livejournal.com]

totally. i'm trying to hold onto the dreaming-and-thinking part of it, and not hold onto the hurt and worry and financial anxiety that tries to creep in when i think about exactly how this would work, or when, or how do we even pay a real estate agent when our house is slightly underwater, etc etc. details = not helpful. dreaming of yards and deciding it's really important to me to have one = helpful.

[duchess-k.livejournal.com]

My imagination runs away with me--I start to picture my New Life so quickly and easily. I just have to stay away.

I really like our little house but until we can afford to finish our basement, the baby will be in our room. Which means she will no longer be a baby by the time we have a room for her. Unless I decide I'm okay with having the TV/DVD/computer in the main living area--right now one of the bedrooms is the "media room". The main living area has a sofa and bookshelves and a stereo and the dining area. I like the tv being Away. If we finish the basement, we can move the media room down there, and voila! A bedroom for the girl.

So sometimes I just plain dream of a larger house. Which isn't going to happen. I just need to tell myself that getting a loan to do the basement would cost less than a sell & move.