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Moving home - when do you breathe a sigh of relief?
evoke
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Is it when you put the kettle on at your new place, sit on a huge cardboard box squashing stuff that was marked 'Fragile' and dunk some Rich Tea biscuits into a cuppa?
Everyone is entitled to my opinion!
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It's ten years later, by which time I assume the purchaser isn't going to sue me...0
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The first cup of tea is usually the point at which I wonder what the heck I've bought
Bit different for me though.Everything that is supposed to be in heaven is already here on earth.
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Definately when contracts are exchanged. Not too worried about anything else. Though having the keys and opening the door to a new place is a pretty good feeling!
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For me (fingers crossed for next Thursday...), it will be when the site manager has let us in, the removal men have gone, the cats have been unpacked and we have a takeaway on the way
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Exchange of contracts. I know it could still go wrong, but that was the point we relaxed, went for a walk down the High Street, and felt the world had changed somehow. Nothing was a worry after that.Been away for a while.0
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When all the upheaval is well and truly over and the first bills come through...Value-for-money-for-me-puhleeze!
"No man is worth, crawling on the earth"- adapted from Bob Crewe and Bob Gaudio
Hope is not a strategy
...A child is for life, not just 18 years....Don't get me started on the NHS, because you won't win...I love chaz-ing!0 -
Surely it's when you make that last mortgage payment.......... 25 years from now sadly.0
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Definitely once I've got the keys in my hand and waved goodbye to the removal men. Then is the time to go yelling 'woohoo' round the house, grinning like cheshire cats
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The first time you christen the toilet - it's a bit like marking your territory :rotfl:0
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I don't think i'll relax until the keys are in my hand - in my mind, that is when it's 'all over' and everything is OK!) 0
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