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cultivating-wildflowers · 6 months ago

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this month is really making me feel like a homeowner in the most mundanely stressful ways

I have to replace my toilet because it's falling apart, but it's so old that we have to find one that will fit, and then we have to adjust the connections (thankfully my dad knows how to do this)

my parents are getting a new washing machine so I will be inheriting theirs (this is how I got my stove)

the friends selling my parents their washing machine are also getting rid of their dryer, so I get a lightly-used dryer for cheap (the sensor on mine died so I can only use the time setting)

my mother is once again critiquing my house's siding (it's wood. and we painted it in the middle of a cold snap in March four years ago before I even bought the house so the inspector would quit pitching a fit)

she also has big plans for re-configuring my driveway

and she wants to know when the township will finally fill the hole in the off-street parking area (it now has its own biome)

my dad may be swapping my lawnmower with his so I can quit getting mildly zapped every time I turn mine off via pulling the spark plug (I mowed on Sunday. it ran out of gas with three passes left. my lawn looks so stupid but we're under a flood watch and I will not be mowing until...later)

thankfully the water heater, furnace, windows, and roof are all quite new and/or in working condition!

#this poor silly house #I love it to bits and it is falling to bits #I just need to work up the energy to take care of it a little better than I've been doing #I have a short list of things I need to take care of before August (replace four-to-six blinds with cordless blinds so we can actually use #the blinds since Blythe methodically ate all of the cords and my face destroyed the only cordless set in the house)#I need to shampoo the grungy carpet #the front garden beds have been a blight since the beginning but I don't have the energy for them #same with the gutters and downspouts which sorely need fixing but it's them or new tierods for my car #I also want better insulation in the attic. this is a straightforward process (I've helped blow in insulation before) but $$#and Mom casually pointed out that we could tear out the kitchen carpet and slap down linoleum for nothing #('but the whole floor is warped and cracked.' 'it's fine. linoleum will stick to that')#'I don't want your house. it's old and small and we don't want to stay in Michigan forever. btw here's all of the improvements we can make'#also I would love a vent in the bathroom #like...are any of these pressing issues? not exactly but some of them would really help my house #and the siding is an eyesore up close #on the plus side having two window ac's has been a life changer #and clearing out junk for a roomie is mentally very freeing #I loved my beardie but her tank took up space that I can now use for storage #that sounds so callous 😅#okee thanks for listening bye #mine

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