Our house.

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Here's our new house.....

This is the tree that's in our front yard...the one that the poo flinging squirrels hang out in:

And this is the Jeep that we got for $800....:

I'll take more this weekend...but we're pretty happy with our small-town vanilla life!

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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top
Awesome, dharma! It all looks fantastic. What a great buy on the jeep, too! I personally prefer a simple, laid-back family kinda life. Vanilla is great for me. The house and the vehicle and everything . . . it all looks great.
Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top
Looks fine to me. Hey! If your happy, that's all that counts.
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Reply #3 from JoeUser Forums Top

Vanilla is great for me


Me too.  I'm lovin' it thus far.....and yeah, the jeep was a good buy. 


I'm happy, really fantastically happy.  I am where I'm supposed to be.....finally!


Insightful: I learned about 12 years ago that living my life the way someone else wants doesn't work.  Now I'm lucky enough to be able to do it for me.....

Reply #4 from JoeUser Forums Top
Sweet deal on the jeep, too!
Reply #5 from JoeUser Forums Top

Sweet deal on the jeep, too!

Yeah...it's an '87, and it lived in NM most of it's life so it has very little rust on it.  It has high mileage, but mechanically it's sound and for what we want to use it for (tooling around, camping, fishing, hauling stuff etc) it's ideal. It came with a manilla folder with the original bill of sale in it ($21,000 even back then) and receipts and records for every single piece of maintenance or work that's ever been done.  We're the third owners...not a bad track record for a 17 year old vehicle!

The only things we had to get fixed were a clamp that holds the muffler on and a 'do-nut' on the manifold...costing us a grand total of $35 including labor.  It also needs a radio, but we can get a cheap one of those at Wal-mart. 

You know the best thing about it?  It's ours.  We own it.  No liens, no loans, no payments.  That's the sweetest deal of all......

Reply #6 from JoeUser Forums Top
That is a really sweet deal on the Jeep. And nice house and all, very cozy. And you get a tree. I'm stuck in a row home. No shade for at least half a block, and I don't even have a fake lawn like some of my neighbors.
Reply #7 from JoeUser Forums Top
dharma~

Your family's house is so cute! Ryan and I have talked about buying a house here in Vegas (if he'll hurry and get his tush in gear and ask me to marry him). If you buy a house, it appreciates in value so fast, that if you re-sell it, even in just a few years, you've made a fortune. The teacher next door to me bought a house with her husband a few years ago for $300,000 and now the estimated value is $700,000. You just moved from the sticks, Karen. Do you know what kind of a house $700,000 would buy in Minnesota? It's crazy.

Sorry...babbling. But your house is beautiful. And you know what? THANK YOU! You poor military families have to move so often, and that's tough. But thank you (and Dave of course) for serving...know that you are appreciated!
Reply #8 from JoeUser Forums Top
You know the best thing about it? It's ours. We own it. No liens, no loans, no payments. That's the sweetest deal of all......


I know that feeling. We recently paid off our second car. It's nice to have no payments going out on either. That's awesome!
Reply #9 from JoeUser Forums Top
Man... I didn't get any poo-flinging squirrels when they gave me housing. [/jealous]