Tell us how you screwed up in 2009

[Mommy2ZaidnSalma 11]

Thankfully the suburbs of chicago are pretty diverse. You can find VERY cheap and VERY expensive in the same neighborhood. Taxes range from about 2k to 13k in a 20 mile radius though so we are definitly looking somewhere where taxes are nice and cheap, and where schools are good.

I agree that owning is alot more headache and risky, but we are not taking anything that we cannot handle. My logic is it needs to be afforded on one income, in case either of us lost our job. A house for about 150k is what were leaning towards.

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

150K, nice. Out here, a move to the boonies is what it would take to get me below 500K

[AlHayatZween 2]

i'm always stuck in the rent v. own debate... not that i can afford to buy at the moment anyway...

but owning seems so permanent... i like to move around a lot...

[Jenn! 918]

I hate when people give me that look when they ask if we were buying a house now that we have a baby and we say no. It seems even more apalling to them that we don't even have any desire to buy.

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

... we don't even have any desire to buy.

[Jenn! 918]

Yeah, that's the look.

[Malrothien 6]

My aunt turned 49 this year. She has never owned a home nor has ever wanted to. *shrug*

I want to own a home, though, simply because I want something that is 'mine' and can do whatever I want to do with it.

Edited January 2, 2010 by Malrothien

[Susita 175]

I want to own my own home but we can't afford it right now. Long Island NY is a really effing expensive place to live.

As for screwups of 2009... I didn't do anything too severe this year. It was actually pretty good. 2008 was sh*tty though LOL

[chri'stina 190]

Because we bought near the end of the boom and later found out we had stinking sinkhole issues(been 2yrs + now of dealing with it including grout pumped under the house by insurance, and a lot of other annoying things) our house is worth ####### compared to what we owe. So our house feels like a chain around my ankle. We are stuck in it. I envy renters at this time. The idea that one can just simply move if they want to, even if they have to finish a year lease, sounds wonderful to me right now. We can afford our mortgage but we just don't want to live here anymore. But we have no choice right now. But that wasn't a 2o09 screw up, that was a 2006 screw up. We would buy again, but this time would take longer probably and would be very very cautious about what we buy. We like our house, we don't like the ####### value it has now.

Edited January 3, 2010 by chri'stina

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

Yeah, that's the look.

I hear ya. The argument renters usually get from owners is "but don't you want to give your chil'run a stable home life?" or some variation thereof.

I think the argument is a remnant from the days when renters lived in tenement buildings and were subject to the whims of slumlords.

[MrsCat 6]

My husband is screwing up 2010 already by not going to the mailbox to get my new boots that I ordered.

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

My husband is screwing up 2010 already by not going to the mailbox to get my new boots that I ordered.

That's next years thread.

[MrsCat 6]

That's next years thread.

Well I'm putting it here. I won't remember the infraction at this time next year.

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

Well I'm putting it here.

[Ban Hammer 14,165]

note this is the first time a woman has admitted to forgetting a time her husband screwed up!