We're going to start working on the house again. We did a flurry of activity for about a month, trying to get the house more presentable, but since we've started the process of selling, we've just maintained the cleanliness.

But we figured what harm will it do? And we'll be that much closer to renting it out if after the rezoning permits go through and our contract with Neil runs out, the house still doesn't have a buyer.

We're going to repaint one of the upstairs bedrooms today, since we already bought the paint for it.

The linoleum we'll lay ourselves. Those areas will be the kitchen/dining room, hallway leading from dining room, all 3 bathrooms, and back hallway.

We have new carpet in one room upstairs so that would stay. We would just have it professionally cleaned, along with the stairs.

That means the living room, our bedroom and two bedrooms upstairs would need carpeting. If we stay here and live in the back part, we could wait before doing flooring back there. Otherwise we would need to carpet one room and either linoleum or carpeting for the other.

Spyros thinks we should have the carpet professionally laid, but I think we would do a good job. So I don't know.... Plus my father has laid tons of carpet so he could either give us pointers or come down and help. The only room that I think may be a good idea to get it done is the living room, but we may be pros after doing the other rooms.

We would do the one valley of the roof that needs replacing ourselves in the spring. Spyros would have vacation time from Kwik Trip again, so it would only cost materials. We would keep an eye on the sales and buy when the supplies were a good price.

We filled up the 1 1/2 ton van yesterday with more junk from the garages. (Keep in mind, most of this junk was still from when DH family lived here.) This will be our third such trip, but after this one all that is left is wooden boxes from the DJ business (which we'll put by the side of the road if FIL doesn't want or break down and put in the garbage.) and boxes of FIL's stuff. (This too can be put in the garbage after he goes through it.)

We may have to take one more trip if whoever buys the house doesn't want the various shelving units in the garages. But I doubt people would want them gone, since they're nice storage units already in place.

We emailed Rawhide about donating our van, but they haven't got back to us yet. We're still waiting on the guy that comes into the Post Office to bring the information. So if neither one of these places want the van, we'll have to pay a little to a junk yard to take it. Or possible put an ad in the paper selling it ($50 or so) for parts.

On other news....

We finally got a Playstation 2. I've never been a big video game player, but DH enjoys it. But there's some mystery type games out there that I think I would really enjoy.
We paid $160 for the unit, 3 games, 1 controller and a hard plastic case. (The guy we bought it from had worked at Blockbuster and they were throwing away cases for the regular Playstations, so he asked if he could take one.)
We're going to sell two of the games, so the price will go down even more.

I'm going to start up on eBay again. I haven't been wanting to because my email is acting up, and the last time I did auctions it was a pain having to remail people because they weren't getting messages.

I want to put up the Atari with 7 games, my dollhouse from 1980, and the two PS2 games, along with some other stuff. I think the Atari and dollhouse will go for a good chunk, so that will be helpful for fixing up the house.

Frugal thought: If you haven't sold or bought on eBay, what are you waiting for? It's easy to set up, and a great way to get rid of unwanted items. Or buy items you need at a wonderful price.