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Actually, since no one got hurt, it's not that bad. Frustrating yes, but it could be worse. We had one move where not all of our stuff fit in the truck and some had to be hand carried to the bus station for shipping; I cut my eye open and needed stitches the morning we left (and still have the scar 30 years later), and our car lost a catalytic converter in Wapakoneta OH on a hot and sticky Friday afternoon and we had to have a piece specially made to get running again. And that was the first day of a four day trip to the new location.

Once your stuff comes and you get used to the new situation you will have another one of those great "move from hell" stories to tell and laugh about. It is all part of the adventure!

Although I have never bought a house sight unseen, I have moved cross-country, on three occasions, to a place I had never been or seen--my husband tends to have more constrained standards than I do, so in cases where we could not afford (in either time or money) for both of us to go and find a place, he did. This was before cell phones and pictures via the internet. Each time it was fine. Neither place was perfect but it was a rental and we didn't expect it to be (I think we had different standards before the internet allowed us to surround ourselves with amazing spaces all the time--kind of a relative depravation issue). I have to say, it was exciting to drive into a new home base and imagine the possibilities.

Six cross country over here and for me, it is having the daily/weekly places staked out--the grocery stores, the farmer's markets, the dentist, the doctor, the drug store, the dry cleaner--and a set of walks I can take that range between 2 and 5 miles, so I can just head out for my daily walks.

Nicely said, nate f.

If it is a rental property, I wouldn't do anything to it. People will rent based not eh quality of the unit, not the look of the exterior.

I don't have a lot of bathroom issues other than that they are clean.

About the t.p.: ours is and always will be under because we have (and have always had) cats who love to take the roll and run with it. They tend to do that a LOT less when it is under. I understand if you have preferences when you are in your own house but when you are in ours, our rules rule. 'Nuff said.

While I think quality is important, there are a lot of other things to consider. 1. Tastes change as we go through life; things I/we loved 20 or 30 years ago are not my/our style now. 2. Life issues change. Things are different when you have young kids, lots of pets, teenagers, are aging, etc. 3. Lives and living spaces change. We had great quality couches for our last house, which we assumed was our "forever house." Then the hubster got a great job, we moved 2,000 miles and have another great house, which we assume is our "forever house" that those couches did not fit into well. We have ended up getting couches that fit and are not as great quality but do what we need now. And we are assuming that thngs will change again and that we will need different couches in our next place. After moving cross country 6 times and living in spaces and places I would never have imagined, all I can say is that life and circumstances affect what we "love" and what is "perfect" in many (though not all) cases. It is not quite as easy as "just buy quality" for most of us, most of the time.

KT, I am not a chickpea fan either. I just use cannellini beans and they work fine. I even make a white bean version of hummus that I like much better than the standard stuff.

We have a 1929 bungalow and, echoing re-store design, there are lots of different colors of subway tiles. In our downstairs bathroom, which still had the original hex tile floor in good shape, we went with an off white that looked a LOT better with the floor than the standard white did. Look at different companies' lines and see if any of them will work with the floor tile--there is a lot of color variation, even in the off whites. Of course the other choice is to bit the bullet and simply replace the floor tile; it isn't that expensive and then you would go with the white subway tiles.

Whenever I am upset, trying to figure out a problem, etc., I always turn to cleaning as a way to work my way through the issue. When I found out my stepfather died, I came home a furiously cleaned as a way of mourning. I do that same thing with many gardening chores; I weed when I am trying to work through a problem.