Home ownership just might be overrated

A friend of a friend was here today – we mothers with kids out of school pooled resources and I have two days – today and Friday to have the boys and then they get distributed through the rest of the week. She began telling me her story about the house she designed then spent her last red cent on and then how she did not have to do things once or twice but actually redo them many times and how she calls her house the bear she cannot get her arms around.

Then another friend was telling me her air conditioning compressor just blew out, or then there was another person who had bought a house because they really believed that home ownership was the end all and be all but turns out to be the keblewy.

Why are we all living in houses that we invested our hard-earned retirement dollars into and now have watched not only the equities (where the rest of our shekels are) but the real estate market devalue everything and make it seem like we have been running around like a bunch of complete fools?

We should be living in yurts – a yurt is something you can get your arms around – and would be all we need to get by – none of us would be so miserably trying to keep up with the bearish demands of our homes.

When did your home turn into such a PAIN IN THE ASS?

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