The following is a post I started on yesterday but didn't get finished because of work and not having my thoughts 100% together:
How do you know when the time is right to do something? This is something I've been thinking about a lot lately.
As you my faithful readers (ha!) know, we were thinking about getting a new house a few months ago. We, mostly I, decided the time wasn't right to do that so we didn't.
So as you can read, I was thinking about why we didn't get a new house and what my reasons were. I feel like sometimes I have to be "pushed" in to making a major decision. We used to live in a dumpy little rent house that neither one of us really liked. But we never did anything about moving, we just stayed there paying our rent month after month and getting nowhere.
The only reason we finally moved to where we live now is our landlord sold our house and the land it was sitting on! We HAD to move. At the time it was awful but now looking back it was the best thing that could have happened.
Anyway, we were thinking of buying a house a few months ago but decided not to. I had put the thought away....filed in my mental "to do someday" file. Right behind "going to Ireland" and "buy dh a new Dodge Charger" It was safe in its little file, not forgotten exactly but I knew I didn't have to worry about it.
Until yesterday. Yesterday I opened the file again, looking at the contents, studying each page, wondering again why I was so scared to go ahead and just do it. Yes, part of it is the money, actually a large part is the money. Part of it is I was just plain scared. Part of it is what if we regret it later. It's not like we can just take a house back if we don't want it.
I can just see me marching up to the seller. "I'd like to return this please, no, there's nothing wrong with it, it just doesn't fit. But I have my receipt!!!"
So yesterday I started the above post and didn't finish it. Yesterday I got home from work and there was a message on the answering machine. "Yes Mr. Happytown, this is Paul from the home dealership, we have several houses I think you might be interested in"
What the heck?! Where did that come from? Then dh said sister had asked him earlier in the day (before the message) if we were getting a new house and they had spent 15 minutes talking about it. I think the universe is trying to tell us something.
So now I have the file open again and am thinking about leaving it out maybe to file under "things I have done" instead of "things to do someday". We'll see I guess.
3 comments:
I think sometimes you just have to have faith in the universe and go for it.
You've already checked the financials, you know you can manage that end of it. Yes, it's scary. When I went into near heart failure after buying our first place I remember my mother asking if I truly expected to be the very first person in the world to buy a house without major trepidation. Umm, I guess not Mom.
LOL Good advice Robin's mom!! Dh is still talking to the guy, but I don't think we are going to come to an agreement with them. That's not to say we won't go somewhere else.
Trust me..I've been there. We had talked to death the idea of moving out of the city. When this house came up, we jumped, and it scared the crap out of us. But I am so glad that we did. I'm glad I don't have to say "We should have".
I say go for it!!!
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