I dread the phone calls
Nap time. Dinner time. Trashed house.
Can we show your house?
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I haven’t talked at all about the inconvenience of having a house for sale with two small children (one of them who’s freakishly messy), two basset hounds (both of which have “issues” with slobber and ickiness), a husband who is utterly incapable of picking up his dirty socks, and me-a person whose housekeeping skills are lacking.
I’ve tried to be accomodating, albeit through gritted teeth and utter annoyance, but accomodating.
We had a showing last night at 6:30. I know I should be thankful that we having any showings at all in this lackluster housing market, but come on people! Six thirty is our dinner and wind down time. It’s a mere 45 minutes from my own personal promised land where my children are finally sleeping!
I emailed Tate about the showing. Here’s what transpired:
Jennifer to Tate:
Showing tonight. 6:30, yo.
How the heck are we supposed to have dinner? Jerks.
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Tate wrote:
Looks like we’re eating out!
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Jennifer wrote:
mexican?
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Tate wrote:
10-4 Good buddy
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Jennifer wrote:
righty-o
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Tate wrote:
I thought you said mexican, not righty-O’s. I do not like righty- O’s.
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Jennifer wrote:
How about nachos?
By the way, your son spit on me today.
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Tate wrote:
I’m nach-o ordinary kinda guy.
My son spat on you? Atta boy! Better than being shat on.
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Jennifer wrote:
righty-o
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Do you all see what I’m up against here! Do you SEE?! The realtors, my husband, my own son…they’re all out to get me.
(Post #5 about moving.)
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doesn’t sound like fun at all…
except the email conversations. =)
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You know men are just grown up little boys. I understand totally about the house showing. I did it during PPD with a newborn. Hellish.
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that’s why i consider myself to have 6 kids…my hubby being the oldest…or youngest, depending on if you rate them by maturity level!
hated showing my old house, when i had a baby…hated. it!
good luck!
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I can just imagine how hard it is. Hope it sells this weekend!
Hope you sell your house soon! Sorry that everyone is conspiring against you!!! Feel the blog love!
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A showing is good…
Your Tate sounds like my Michael.. LOL
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6:30 is too late!!! Plus, even if you go out to dinner to vacate the house, what do you do with the dogs??
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We specifically asked our realtor to set the evening hours a little earlier for this reason. But the keeping the house in show condition? Impossible. It was a little easier this summer b/c the kids played outside all day. We actually pulled ours off for the winter. I knew I would never be able to keep it picked up, much less actually clean.
Here’s to hoping you sell soon!!
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ah man…I remember those days…they were just last month. ack! I hope your home sells quickly.
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That’s a total bummer. Hopefully someone will just buy the house already and the whole thing will be done with.
Just wait until your daughter is old enough to dress Tate up like a princess or something…he’ll get his payback eventually, he just has to wait a few more years!
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Tate sounds like D. (and like your other poster, I consider D. a second child, so really I’m pregnant with my third).
Hoping you find some buyers this weekend. I was in your place 4 years ago and I remember it being very stressful.
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I’m never moving. We’ll just abandon this one, since we will have won the lottery by then, right?
Good luck, and hope something comes of it soon so the craziness can stop!
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why *do* people want to see houses at dinner time? is it just a test??????
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The process of selling and buying can go suck it, as far as I;m concerned. I wish you luck, seriously.
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I have never had the joy of having to sell my house, but I’ve seen enough people have to do it to understand why it sucks. Hang in there. At least you have a sense of humor about the situation.
And I’m pretty sure I misspelled “differentiate” Oh well.
But THREE Melissas on a link page is a bit too much. 
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I feel for you. I lived through 2.5 months worth of showings and I hated every single second. I hope that your house sells quickly, so that you can be done with that part.
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Showing your house is always awful. But it’s worse at night, I swear. Though Mexican food is a bonus!
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Oooh I hear you, sister.
We have had ours on the market for a while now, and my favorite was the early Saturday or Sunday morning call. With four kids, it’s safe to say the house was a disaster zone.
Good luck with selling yours!
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I remember the showings!!! They totally suck.
It was always at THE most inconvenient time.
Did you get mexican?
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Been there, done that. Is selling a house a big pain in the butt? Righty-o!
I can’t imagine trying to keep a house spotless for a showing when you have kids and dogs. Blah! Sounds like sheer insanity.
That email is hilarious. Reminds me of my hubby and I.
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That is the most awesome conversation EVAH! So deep and meaningful.
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There, there, sweetheart. Soon it will be all over and you’ll be freaking out about something else. I promise.
Just put on some lipsmackers. Oh. And drink a lot.
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I think our husbands would get along swimmingly.
Good luck selling your house!!
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I know exactly what you mean! We have 4 adults, 4 kids, 4 dogs and three cats in my 2500 sq/ft house so I pretty much cringe when my agent calls and wants to show the house. Thankfully (I think) he doesn’t call that often.
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Poor you. Yuck.
Your husband sounds a lot like mine.
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Yeah, I am never moving.
Ever.
I’m not all that crazy about my house, but I am never going to move because the whole showing process would drive me right over the edge.
And I teeter on the edge enough as it is… : ) Good luck with the showing(s).
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I was in your shoes last summer.
The thing that sucks the most is the 6:30 appointment, that kicked us our of our house during bath time didn’t show up until 8:00 pm, and wondered why we wouldn’t let them peek into the bedrooms where are children were trying to sleep.
Jerks!
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I’m dying for some Mexican food…
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Stupid people who want to look at houses at dinner time. WTH is with that? I hated it too.
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oh, i SO know what you are going through! Zander and Logan would follow us around tearing the house apart as we were cleaning for showings! thankfully the housing market here was pretty hot, so we only had 3 weeks of showings before it sold. Thank. GOD! i don’t think i could have done it for much longer without having a nervous breakdown!
i’m crossing my fingers for you that it sells in the next few days!!!
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Dude! Mexican! Score!
Spit and bad timing? Not so good.
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I was wondering what you would do if they tried to show your house during naptime or meal time. What a nightmare! I remember having to grab the dogs and go out on walks when we were showing our house when I was a teenager. That was a pain then. Throw kids into the mix and I’d probably just hid out at the mall all day.
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Your children are asleep by 7:15? Please forward your secret to this miracle under separate cover.
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That’s what keeps me from never moving. Good luck in selling your home! At least it saves you from cooking.
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oh my, I feel for you as far as house showings go. We flip houses. So our house is generally always for sale. In addition to our other homes, I am always having to clean up something last minute, because we stage some of them as if people live there.
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6.30? How could they do that to you?
I personally feel that showings should be between 9am-5pm with a break for naptime. My timeslines are MUCH better for families. LOL
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showings are ALWAYS at the most inconvenient time … which is …um… any time. (“quick! hide the body in the closet! oh wait, they look in closets, too….”)
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A 6:30 showing is messed up, but Tate is right – being spat upon is better than being shat upon.
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I’m in. Better late than never — sitting in the airport in Pheonix.
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Tate made some funnies!
When we selling our last house, I was mongo prego and had a oneyear old. I swear I walked around him with a dust buster! He could get one thing out at a time! Poor kid. But we did sell it in less than a month.
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Just a taste of my first Haiku Friday… I lacked the energy for a long post. With the pictures and the syllables this post took me just as long…damn
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I love this post. You and Tate are too cute.
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Heh. Your emails remind me of my emails.
I’m trying not to think about all the things I will have to do before we move (if we move) but they are already worming their way into my daily thoughts… redo the floors, paint the bathroom, patch the bricks…
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Wow, do I feel ya. Our showings are always at dinner time, too; what is up with that?
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So, did you survive the showing?
We had one today, too. Though ours was at a decent time. Enough time to clean the house all morning, and the weather was nice enough for us to go to the playground during the actual showing. Which was nice, since we could take the dog.
I’ll second someone else’s question…
What do YOU all do with your dogs during the showing?
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Exactly what I dread if we ever put our house up for sale…a realtor!
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Wow. That sounds like SO much fun! Just keep saying to yourself, “I’m getting out of Bama. I’m getting out of Bama…”
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