Things That I Have Learned About My New House

[ladysprite]

1) It is impossible to unpack completely until you have unpacked completely, setting up a lovely little paradox that fills your life forevermore with cardboard.

2) There is no such thing as 'enough counter space in the kitchen.'

3) Dishwashers are an amazing invention, and I avoided them for far too long.

4) Having the living room windows open onto Route 60 probably means that I shouldn't walk around naked downstairs.

5) We will probably never learn what the second light switch in the sun room does.

6) Hardwood floors + open floor plan + 2 slightly crazy cats = hours of skidding, romping fun.

7) Not all basements are scary dungeons of cobwebby, dank doom.

8) Electricians are mythical beasts that many have heard of, and some claim to have encountered, but that we will never actually see face-to-face in this lifetime.

9) The same holds true for plumbers.

10) On the other hand, we have actual faeries living here. Honest. Everything that had gone missing in the process of moving returned (with the exception of a $4 litterbox scraper) within 12 hours of my setting out a bowl of milk and bread for the Good Neighbors.

11) I have no idea what the faeries want with a litterbox scraper, nor do I think I want to know. But they're welcome to it.

12) Closet-debris will apparently expand to always take up more space than you have available, even if you're moving from a house with one closet to a house with four or more closets.

13) A house with no artwork on its walls looks vaguely eerie and unfinished, even if all of the furniture is in place and the shelves are filled with knick-knacks.

Comments

Obviously

[cristovau.livejournal.com]

11) I have no idea what the faeries want with a litterbox scraper, nor do I think I want to know. But they're welcome to it.

They need some vehicle so they can enter the Annual Fantastical Celtic Beastie Luge Competition.

Re: Obviously

[alexx-kay.livejournal.com]

Apparently, the team fielded by the Elves, Leprechauns, Gnomes, and Little Men Chowder and Marching Society is expected to be serious competition this year...

[gyzki.livejournal.com]

5) We will probably never learn what the second light switch in the sun room does.

We've been in our current house for 7 years now this month, and we're now down to only two switches we don't know what they do.

[meranthi.livejournal.com]

5) We will probably never learn what the second light switch in the sun room does.


I have three or four light switches like this. I think there used to be a light in our living room. Why they took it out I'll never know.

[msmemory.livejournal.com]

5) We will probably never learn what the second light switch in the sun room does

We have one switch like that, and one light that appears to have no switch. Unless it turns out the bulbs have been burnt out in that fixture all this time, and the switch is trying in vain to turn it on. (It's the backyard flood along the roofline, and we'll need the extension ladder to investigate.)

Does your sunroom have a ceiling fan, or a connection for one? That could be it.

[jerusha.livejournal.com]

4) Unless you get curtains (or something like cafe blinds, that cover the bottom 1/2 to 2/3 of the window, so you still get natural light without so much... view.

[baron-saturday.livejournal.com]

4) Having the living room windows open onto Route 60 probably means that I shouldn't walk around naked downstairs.

Regardless of what you do, you shall always be walking around naked in my imagination. It makes your on the job stories ever so much more interesting for me. :-) ;-) :-)

[multigeek.livejournal.com]

5) We will probably never learn what the second light switch in the sun room does.

A switched outlet? Probably the one behind that furniture that's too much work to move to be worth testing. Considering the insane number of outlets in that room, it's a good guess.

4) Having the living room windows open onto Route 60 probably means that I shouldn't walk around naked downstairs.

Well, now that you know that, my drive to work will be much shorter. Oh well, it was fun while it lasted.

[multigeek.livejournal.com]

Oh, and as to the switch, you should note whether it has "off" and "on" molded into the plastic on the switch. In most cases, switches that are smooth (no labeling) are for things that have more than one switch.

[mindways]

3) Dishwashers are an amazing invention, and I avoided them for far too long.

Oh, yes. Yesyesyes. They contribute to nice clean kitchens and domestic harmony. So nice.

Happy to hear you have one! :)

[pagawne.livejournal.com]

Congratulations on the dishwasher. I love mine.

I think we still have a couple of boxes packed by the movers from Carlsbad, California, in 1981. Read, 4 moves ago.

YAY!! for faries in the house. They really are wonderful to have.

[braider.livejournal.com]

In response to #5: You will learn the use when you discover that one - and only one - of your outlets ceases to work at random intervals, when the switch is accidentally switched.

[dagibbs.livejournal.com]

Yay new house!

2 & 3 are definitely true.

4 -- if you forget, can I drive by? :)

7 I refuse to believe. My basement is far too scary. I call it "the evil basement".

[evcelt.livejournal.com]

5) We will probably never learn what the second light switch in the sun room does.

It controls a light-up sign somewhere near Timbuktu. The sign says "Monkey!"

Since it's in English, none of the locals pay much attention to it.

[pixel.livejournal.com]

Hee! I'm moving into a new house this weekend as well (only renting, sadly), and expect to have all sorts of similarly silly discoveries.

Did Arnis mention to you about the dining room table & chairs? I can't do anything regarding it right now, as I'm busy with our move. But after we're moved I can go snap some pics so you can see what I'm offering and know if you want it.

Short description is light-colored rock maple table & four chairs. Table has a fold-away center leaf. The chairs will likely need a good scrubbing, and to have all the joints re-glued (they were in a damp basement). I might even be able to do the re-gluing once I'm moved.

I'm offering them to you as a long-term loan. We have a nice dining set here that belongs to my housemate, so I haven't needed this set in almost eight years, and don't foresee needing it for at least another 2+ years, minimum. And I'd rather someone enjoy it then it jsut sit in my mom's attic.

[rabbitorf.livejournal.com]

I may have to try that with the milk and bread on the off chance it could explain things in my neck of the woods, too. Do they have a bread preference, do you think?

Congrats on the new place!

[johnprester.livejournal.com]

Having recently purchased a condominium, I know what it's like to be discovering new things about where you live. My Friendly Local Gaming and Comics Store is right around the corner from me, so I've driven around here for years, but now I'm discovering all sorts of little back roads and shops I didn't know about.

Now if only the stress of moving (I still don't have everything out, and the lease expires at the end of October) weren't currently killing me slow.

[rosinavs.livejournal.com]

3) Dishwashers are an amazing invention

At my last apartment, my former roommate and I referred to the dishwasher as our landlord's virtue. Sadly, my current place has no such virtue. It does, however, have the virtue of really cheap rent.

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

We have a great electrician and a wonderful plumber, both local. Let me know if you'd like contact info.

[umbran.livejournal.com]

Yes, please.

The plumber I was hoping to use has now told me he won't be available for a month. The electrician, while reportedly a nice guy, is trying to do work and get an electrical engineering degree while keeping up a long-distance relationship with a girl in Texas. So, neither one is working out well :)

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

Happy to share, sorry I was offline for the latest holidays... I'll send you the info.

[dornbeast.livejournal.com]

I have no idea what the faeries want with a litterbox scraper...

Maybe the gremlins took it, and that's why you didn't get it back.