03 05 08 - 00:25
House Hunting
My hubby and I are becoming grown-ups at last; we've started looking for a house of our own. It's been a long road to get to this place. For years we've been "saving for a down payment." But time has a way of creeping up on you. Sometime this winter, it hit us that we had just enough time to pay off a 20 year mortgage before retirement age. That's almost enough encouragement to help us overcome our Maritime-bred allergy to debt. It's time to stop fooling ourselves; we'll never have enough saved to satisfy our craving for security. It's time to call the bank and get on with it.
So we've started to look for a house. This doesn't come naturally to either hubby or I. The idea of spending upwards of a quarter of a million dollars on anything is a daunting task for our Scottish genes; perhaps you can hear them screaming from there. (Which would be quite something for Elizabeth in UK, eh? ... (more)
