by  Jen   

For two weeks, I worked on a little decluttering and a little packing. I wasn’t in a rush any longer since receiving the phone call that we didn’t get the estate sale house. We could take our time finding another house. Every day, I was kind of thankful that we didn’t get that house because

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by  Jen   

Once we had gotten over the disappointment of not getting the far away, estate sale house, we decided to keep looking for a new place. Things were moving fast in the real estate world so packing and decluttering became an everyday thing. Neither one was going very good. We had to finish something. Anything. Enough

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by  Jen   

While it was exciting waiting for news about the offer we had put in on the estate sale property, it was also very stressful. You know how sometimes you have a feeling about something? Well, I felt like we weren’t going to get it because there were other offers submitted at the same time. But

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by  Jen   

Now that we had put an offer in on the house with the estate sale, it was time to start packing up boxes! Next, we let the realtor come over and see what we were dealing with. (Note to self: next time wait until things are a little better.) Remember all the times he said

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by  Jen   

After looking at the house with the estate sale, we all kind of liked it but we were nowhere near ready to move. We were starting to pack things up but hadn’t even made the tiniest dent. The house also needed a lot of work but with what we can afford, we knew that would

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by  Jen   

When we pulled up to the house that we were looking at, to show the realtor what we were looking for, there were cars everywhere. It didn’t take us long to realize that the estate sale sign down the road was for the house we were looking at. Ok, that makes sense, they’re having an

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by  Jen   

About one week after I started packing things up, I was at a friend’s house visiting. I told her that we were thinking of moving in the near-ish future but we didn’t know what a bank would lend us. We weren’t sure if we could afford the kind of property we were looking for. Since

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