Buzz and I went back to the old house to clean it out. Actually, Buzz did most of the work. I never noticed how dirty the walls in my old room are! The place is pretty well cleaned out now, we'll see if I get the deposit back. Then I can add that dough to the growing bottomless pit of stuff that needs to be fixed at the new house.
I'm not sure how we'll draw the line on repairs/improvements. I keep thinking of small things to fix that lead me to other, bigger renovations. For instance, in the bathroom there's a pair of towel rack ends with no towel rack. To remove these they'd have to be broken off the tile-covered wall, which would necessarily mess up some of the tiles. The tiles are kind of ugly anyway, so I'd want to remove all the tiles in the bathroom, which makes me want to replace the tiles on the floor as well. If I'm doing that, then I might as well replace the old medicine cabinet. And hey, that sink is no prize either, and the toilet has been installed at a weird angle, that needs to go too! And the shower has those same ugly tiles! They gotta go! Next thing you know, I've replaced everything except the showerhead I bought two days ago. And all because I wanted a new towel rack.
This is why my only hope is to win the lottery to generate the necessary revneue to replace everything inside the house.
