To build the house, one of us is leaving our job to focus on that so it doesn’t take forever to do. To prepare for that we’re looking at everything we’re currently spending money on and determining where we can cut back. As you may have noticed, the website / blog is one area whereContinue reading “Scaling Back to Save Money”
Category Archives: Planning
Preparing for Concrete
Originally posted on 2021-07-05 More preparing for stuff. Sometimes it seems like all we do is prepare for things to happen. We are hoping the concrete guy will be here soon, and that means making sure everything is ready for him to go so there aren’t any hiccups. The main thing this included this weekContinue reading “Preparing for Concrete”
It’s Magic!
Originally posted on 2021-01-31 The bin and all its contents disappeared! Obviously, it’s not really magic and it didn’t actually just disappear as we were home when they came and picked it up. In fact, we were still tossing in some last-minute items when they arrived. The bin was mostly full, but we reached aContinue reading “It’s Magic!”
A Place For Our Stuff
Originally posted on 2020-10-25 Trying to figure out exactly where to put everything has been a challenge, but we’ve also found some things we were wondering where it had gotten to. As we continue to prepare to demolish the eastern part of our house we’ve had the fun task of going through all our possessionsContinue reading “A Place For Our Stuff”
Preparing to Demolish – Part Two
Originally posted on 2020-10-11 “What are you preparing?! You’re always preparing! Just go!” Dark Helmet from Spaceballs, 1987. This week saw us continuing to prepare to demolish the house, but we still have a lot to do before we get there. Tearing down a house isn’t as straight forward as one might think, especially ifContinue reading “Preparing to Demolish – Part Two”
Preparing to Demolish – Part One
Originally posted on 2020-10-04 This week we started to move things around in preparation to tear down the first part of the house. This week we had the hydro moved and we moved our washer and dryer. The major thing that gone done this week happened on Wednesday. We had contractors come in and moveContinue reading “Preparing to Demolish – Part One”
Money, Money, Money
Originally posted on 2020-08-30 No talk about a large scale project is complete without talking about money and financing. When we first bought the property we talked about the headache of trying to obtain a mortgage with both of us technically unemployed. Well, now we both are employed, but trying to get financing to tearContinue reading “Money, Money, Money”
Let’s Talk About The Plan
Originally posted on 2020-08-23 Plans are good to have. You need something to throw out the window. We have put a lot of work and thought into this plan for the new house and it’s everything we could want in our dream place. We figured if we’re not selling the place once we’ve fixed itContinue reading “Let’s Talk About The Plan”
A Massive Change of Plans
Originally posted on 2020-08-02 Hello everyone. I am really sorry for the blog being so sporadic. Life has been crazy in general with both of us working full time and going back and forth with plans not to mention the whole COVID-19. I may write about dealing with that in an isolated (mostly) community andContinue reading “A Massive Change of Plans”
Huron The Lake 