House-buying progresses
August 6, 2009 on 8:04 am | In Uncategorized |So we decided to put down an offer on a home. We’re really excited about it, and we hope it goes through. It’s crazy that we could be homeowners soon. I’ve never felt more like an adult. I always wondered what would finally make me feel like I’m not still a teenager (besides wrinkles and having to pay bills). I kind of thought it would be having kids, but now it seems like it’s buying a home. So there you go.
It’s going to be so different living in an actual house, since we’ve lived in apartments the whole time we’ve been married. I realized that, actually, we don’t really know how to do yardwork. We don’t really know much about home maintenance, or cleaning gutters, or switching out air filters. We don’t really know anything about having a home vs. having an apartment. But, as Brandon reassured me, “that’s what the Internet is for.”
Another thing that will be weird for us is having permanent neighbors. I don’t know if it’s just the areas we’ve lived in or it’s just our personalities, but we’ve never been much for making friends with our neighbors. We just wave or say hello when we see them, and try not ding their cars or make too much noise so that we don’t piss them off. Never goes much further than that. But when our realtor advised us to get to know our possible future neighborhood, chat with the possible future neighbors and get a feel for the place, it struck me as odd. Talk to them? Like, approach them for the purpose of chatting for a few minutes? Who does that? Uh, neighbors I guess. That’s something we’ll learn more about.
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Hmm … is it buying property or buying a house that makes one a grown-up??? If it’s the former, I still don’t feel any more grown up. I reckon that one does not achieve grown-up status until one has kids, because then one is forced to be the adult (as opposed to the kid). But that said, since I have no kids, this is pure conjecture! Another friend once told me that he felt like he’d finally become an adult when his parents died because now the buck stops with him.
Comment by /Karen/ — August 10, 2009 #
That is a good question. Perhaps it is buying a house that makes me feel grown up, because it’s a lot more responsibility than a condo I think. Maybe it’s the lawn work?
I dunno.
I think having kids will definitely make me feel different, but up until now I’ve always felt like I’m a teenager trying to fool people into thinking I know what I’m doing. It’s funny because in a way I “grew up” quickly–I moved out and got married before narrowly escaping my teens.
How sad for your friend! That’s definitely something that forces a person to grow up whether they like it or not.
Comment by Wendy W — August 11, 2009 #