Historical Timeline

[marilyn morning]

I work full time and keep trying to convince my husband that I need a part time cleaning woman to come in and tidy up once a week.

His reply back to me is "What so you can spend more time on the computer"

Regards
Marilyn

[LuAnn]

My ol' fella is away all week, comes home on the weekends as he has already taken up his job in our new community. This would be great if I didnt have to keep the beds made and the rooms vacuumed for the agent I could spend my time working the way I like with my files and piles all around me and the teapot always full. Life has a disturbing habit of intruding on the really important stuff you know?

agent just called I have a showing this afternoon, so better go and corner the dust bunnies and buff the taps
LuAnn

[DavidWW]

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agent just called I have a showing this afternoon, so better go and corner the dust bunnies and buff the taps
LuAnn

I'm assuming that the paintwork, inside and out, woodwork and walls & ceilings where appropriate, were "freshened" at least, some weeks ago; windows outside and inside cleaned; with any failed double glazing units replaced where the seal had failed leading to condensation; garden (if there is one) given a major tidy up, with regular subsequent attention, and the grass cut much more regularly than has ever previously happened; drive and paths deweeded and treated to prevent reappearance of said weeds; and all those major and minor outstanding maintenance tasks completed, - proper pointing on the patio makes an amazingly good impression , along with that broken pane of glass on the greenhouse replaced ; any surfeit of soft toys and the like hidden (we have a 5½ foot tall pet lion who was, much to his great disgust, regularly stuffed into a cupboard); the depredations of miscellaneous pets (3 cats in our case ) disguised as far as possible and de-odourised to the extent practical; with said pets banned to the garden for the duration of showings; ....aye weel, whit else , ... Ah cannae mind, - Oh aye, I was forced to do a major tidy up of my study, - I ask you, - what is the floor for but to file piles of papers when other space runs out , never mind put up curtains, and actually hoover the study carpet , never mind dust the desk, bookshelves etc., etc., , - Ah ken that we spent the thick end o' £4,000 (US$8,000) tittivating the whole place, not least undoing that terrible idea that we had to continue the floor tiles in the en-suite onto the doors and surface of the basin unit, - great concept but it looked terrible ........

All that written, I have no hesitation in stating, - just don't tell my better half that I admitted it , - that all the effort and associated expense more than paid off in terms of the outcome, - a premium of just over 20% in terms of the Scottish system of stating the asking price on the basis of "offers over £........... " ........ with 10% to 15% being the norm for our area .......

David

[marilyn morning]

Hi David,

By the sound of it, all your hard work paid off.

Congrats!
Marilyn

[DavidWW]

Hi David,

By the sound of it, all your hard work paid off.

Congrats!
Marilyn

But dusting and hoovering in my study, never mind putting up curtains, and having to stop using the floor as a convenient filing cabinet , - that surely has to be over and above what is reasonable to expect of any serious genealogist/family historian, n'est ce pa

David

PS I've just spent a 12 hour day dismantling the bookcases in my study, - somewhere around 300 feet of shelves, - the purchasers were originally relaxed about the fact that said bookcases were staying, plus the bookcase in the main lounge, - another 150 feet, - after all, they are "fixtures", but, no, they then came back just a few days ago and said that they wanted them all removed, plus they didn't want the storage units in one bedroom .......... our original intention was that we're using a removal company who would have packed all the books etc., but were faced at very short notice with the need to remove all the books etc., so that the the bookcase units could be removed (by me ), dismantled, and placed in skips, - skip #5 arrives on Monday morning - 3 skips were necessary for the contents of the loft and garage no longer required

My muscles are hurting
dww

[LesleyB]

Hi David

..and having to stop using the floor as a convenient filing cabinet

Generally I find these kind of filing systems work fine...until you have to move stuff for one reason or another: that completely mucks up your "historical timeline". At that point there are usually some papers (most often the ones you need to refer to RIGHT NOW) which seem to have disappeared and searching the seven or so likely locations where you might have put them can be very time consuming and frustrating ...and usually proves to be futile.

I do hope you manage to find everything again!

Best wishes
Lesley

[emanday]

3 skips were necessary for the contents of the loft and garage no longer required

Did you, like me, find all sorts of stuff that absolutely NO-ONE could remember ever owning or putting there?

By the time I'd finished I was beginning to think we'd had a burglar who brought stuff INTO the house

[marilyn morning]

Lesley wrote

which seem to have disappeared and searching the seven or so likely locations where you might have put them can be very time consuming and frustrating ...and usually proves to be futile.

Well I'll be. Its not just me then. Good to know we all run out of places to store our documents.

Regards
Marilyn

[marilyn morning]

Mary wrote

By the time I'd finished I was beginning to think we'd had a burglar who brought stuff INTO the house

Hi Mary,

Slightly off topic here for a second, but worth repeating.

When my neighbor passed on and her son came over to clear the house, he found a set of Christmas lights with a note attached from his mother.

It read

"Dear Thief"

This set of Christmas lights has been laced with poision so if you take them you're sure to die.

OMG it had to be the funniest line that I've run across this far in life.

May she RIP

Regards
Marilyn

P.S. Her son gave me the set on lights and I hang them on a Christmas tree in my back yard, in her memory.

[emanday]

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