We finally moved into our new house a few days ago. Moving day went pretty well, with all of our furniture moved on Wednesday morning in just a few hours. We spent the rest of the week moving our other stuff from the rental to our new house. Given that we have downsized our house from what we were living in over in Perth, we can now get a better perspective of how much stuff we actually have.
Sonia did quite a bit of decluttering before we left Perth, and we thought we had gotten rid of quite a bit. Looks like we will be doing more of the same as we unpack and settle in to the new place. We seem to have more stuff than room for it all. Conveniently enough, the council is doing a kerbside bulk rubbish collection in our area in a week or so.
This is a good thing - we can get rid of stuff that we really don't need, but have been hanging on to for whatever reason. It's good to look at things and realise that you really don't need it. Decluttering your physical environment is a good opening to decluttering the rest of your life, should you so feel inclined. Certainly works for me.
Now to get ready for going back to work tomorrow. If only I could get rid of that too...
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
House hunting comes to an end
It's been a while since I last posted. We bought a house!
We finally found a house that suits us. It's a brick house, not termite food. It has no termites. We will be homeowners again at the end of this week.
It's actually quite a process buying a house here in Queensland, and it seems more complicated and time consuming than it does in Perth. Nevertheless, we have been through all the work of getting masses of paperwork completed and signed and witnessed by JP's etc. Now I can have time to do important and interesting things again...
The other good thing for us is that our landlord found someone else to live in the house we are renting and take over our lease, which means we don't have to keep paying rent as well as our shiny new mortgage!
There's a few things we need to do to the new house, and the extra money from not paying rent will come in handy. Things such as replacing the pool fence to meet the requirements of Queensland's strict new pool safety laws, as well as enclosing the existing carport into another room.
All in all, it should be exciting. We are definitely looking forward to having our own place again, somewhere we can actually settle in.
We finally found a house that suits us. It's a brick house, not termite food. It has no termites. We will be homeowners again at the end of this week.
It's actually quite a process buying a house here in Queensland, and it seems more complicated and time consuming than it does in Perth. Nevertheless, we have been through all the work of getting masses of paperwork completed and signed and witnessed by JP's etc. Now I can have time to do important and interesting things again...
The other good thing for us is that our landlord found someone else to live in the house we are renting and take over our lease, which means we don't have to keep paying rent as well as our shiny new mortgage!
There's a few things we need to do to the new house, and the extra money from not paying rent will come in handy. Things such as replacing the pool fence to meet the requirements of Queensland's strict new pool safety laws, as well as enclosing the existing carport into another room.
All in all, it should be exciting. We are definitely looking forward to having our own place again, somewhere we can actually settle in.
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