As of Thursday August 18, 2011 at 4:30 pm, we are happy home owners! We are ecstatic to move into our quaint 3 bedroom 2 bathroom home over the next few days. Our move will entail transporting all our belongings from my grandma's garage to ours...about 8 houses down. 9 houses down from ours is where we've been living for the past 3 weeks, my parents house. That's right...4 generations in one neighborhood. It the talk of our subdivision. The youngest generation just arrived on July 28, 2011 at 5:13 pm. Pictures to come. Anyways...with interest rates and home prices so low, we decided to jump on our opportunity to buy a house. Our monthly payment is reasonable, being about $200 more that what we were paying in rent. But what is the real cost of owning a home? Lawn mowers, tools, appliances, cleaning products, paint, shovels... So here is volume 1. 1 day into owning a home --
Used refrigerator: $325 ($387 with tax and delivery)
Door knobs: $45
Squeegie: $5
Carpet deoderizer: $4
Wall putty: $5
Razors: $2
Pro Carpet Cleaning: $190
Sub Total: $638
Cumulative Total: $638
to be continued...
