(Please remember, we haven’t sold much, or bought much, for that matter, on Craigslist, so it’s all new to us!)
Favorite Response to our Craigslist Ads: “am really in need of a futon. My in-laws are visiting next weekend. Is yours still available?” Nothing is too good for the in-laws, I say!!!
Least Thought-Out [...]
I feel as if I’m starring in my own little catch-22 reality show.
I email a short-term furnished apartment agency in Baires and tell them our trip dates and the specific short-term rental units that we’re interested in letting.
Said agency emails me back and tells me the units that I want to rent are not available, [...]
Whew, that was a whirlwind.
We sold the minivan to a lovely elderly couple who are ditching their truck with trailer to buy something that rides like a sedan, can still haul or pull as needed, and is easy to enter and exit!
Presto, our minivan.
The end of an era. We bought it just [...]
I am using this post as a forum to try to convince my husband to post on this blog more! I told him that at his current posting rate, this blog will cease to be “our” blog, and instead, he’ll be demoted to being a guest blogger on “my” blog!
Of course, I’m not sure [...]
It has always been our intention to sell the cars before we left!
Unfortunately, for the same reason it is good to be getting out of the real estate market at the moment, it is bad to be selling a lower mileage vehicle (read: minivan). *Sigh*
Where oh where have the home [...]
Speaking of a different lens while living overseas during elections, it’s particularly intense to be an expat during times of military action. (Sadly, a relevant topic these days.)
I was reminded of living overseas (Taiwan) during the first gulf war. This was prior to the Internet and email. I remember that I was [...]
Tom and I have arranged for our absentee ballots so that we may participate in the upcoming Presidential election. (Go Barack Obama!)
It will be interesting to be overseas during the October madness. Being outside the country gives you a whole new perspective on the event when your country’s political process is viewed through [...]
It is difficult to time the sale of furniture.
We sold the girls bunkbeds, yah! The girls have nowhere to sleep for a month-and-a-half, boo. At least, that’s what Tom and I thought.
The reality is that the girls are delighted to have two little nests (piles of blankets, sleeping bags, stuffed animals, [...]
Craigslist fever is starting here in the Reeves-Offermann household.
We sold the girls’ kitchen (and they pocketed the money). We sold the futon in a matter of hours. (The guy practically jogged out of here with it.) We have a fair amount of interest in the girls’ bunk beds. We just posted [...]
Recently went to the doc where he pronounced my knee to be “looking great.” I thought his opinion a bit generous as it was swollen and a little lumpy!
He also pulled out two of the dissolvable stitches that had worked up through an incision, and hence didn’t dissolve (that was a little [...]
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