Today it's snowing and one of the good things about not having a car is that I don't have to drive in the sludge when the weather's bad. Don't get me wrong though. I'm dying to get a car because while it's nice to live in the countryside when you don't have a car it's a little scary. I have become a shut in.
The theives also stole Charlotte's snazzy Maclaren stroller so we're really stuck. I'm going to get all June Cleaver on you and remind everyone to save all your receipts for baby items. I didn't save the Maclaren receipt because I thought I'd probably just keep it in the basement for eternity for whenever we might have visiting kids, but now I'm not going to get reimbursed for it. Ditto the car seats. We're out over 500 euros in baby gear, agh.
Okay I know it's pretty lame not saving receipts for high ticket items but we move so much that I got lazy.
In totally unrelated blurbs, we got some good news a few weeks ago. The renter in our other house is leaving in July and we're getting the house back for the month of August. We get to spend a month in our old house! We'll be renting it again, possibly as a seasonal rental but most likely for a longer bail. We can also increase the rent by almost double. That may sound radical but he was renting it for peanuts so he'd accept the place "as is" and hopefully finish off some work. He never really did much work, oh well and he hasn't been great about paying the rent on time but he has been a pretty reliable guy about keeping care of the house and that was really important to us.
In August we'll finish up the work (more renovating, sigh, but at least it's a change of projects) and we'll get it ready for some new tenants. Hopefully I can detach myself from my love of the house. That part's hard and I'm a little scared I'll get completely obsessed with moving back there. I probably will but what a pleasure to see my house by the lake again!
4 comments:
Do you have a good time in wonderful Paris?
It will be good to get your old house back, even if it is just for a month. And that's amazing that you will be able to double the rent.
Take Care,
Maria
I don't keep many receipts either. Appliances I do but car seats? No way. I will from now on though!
Oh, I hope you'll post pictures of your lake house. I love that house too. One day when we're older and our kids are grown up and we have all sorts of time on our hands, I'll come visit you there!
m - Yes we had a great time but it was too short.
Jennifer - That sounds wonderful :) Hopefully it will be sooner than that.
We didn't have a lot of receipts for the jewelry we had stolen this summer...so the insurance check was small. I'm still sick about the robbery and don't feel like having new jewelry anyway, but you do need carseats and strollers.
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