New House=Money Pit

I took Friday off so Aaron and I could dig into the mess of our new home, and we certainty worked our tails off. Thursday Aaron hauled most of the stuff out of the house into the 20 foot dumpster we had delivered for the project. We started off thinking there was no way we could fill a dumpster that big...think again. These people left so much stuff behind that we filled it halfway, and then we threw all of the carpet in there and we were to capacity. After getting all of the junk out we started vacuuming, because I don't think they ever vacuumed in the two years they lived there. I'm glad we did because there was still a ton of gunk in it when we pulled up the carpet... I can't imagine if we hadn't vacuumed. Ripping carpet out now makes my list of most favorite things to do! We had so much fun during our mini demolition. After we got the carpet up we discovered that although the carpet was totally trashed the pad was in good condition and we can use it, which saves us quite a bit of $$$. Yay for saving money! We made so many trips to Home Depot that we may have spent just as much as we saved. We quickly discovered that Lowe's is about 15 minutes closer to our home, so I'm sorry Russell, but we're converting purely for convenience purposes.

I spilled first blood while I was picking up stuff, a tack went all the way into my thumb. Ouch, but not much blood. Aaron wins for the best bleeder, while he was pulling up tack strip a nail ripped him open a bit, but still not actually serious. Kinda' cool though... now we can both say we've put sweat and blood into that house! Really the best battle for me was the toilets...gross. I gloved up and equipped myself with my weaponry: toilet brush, scrub brush, and crevice brush. I had to call Aaron in for back-up, because there was a hard candy stuck to the toilet bowl that I wasn't strong enough to remove. That and he got to scrub the ick off of the master bathroom floor; it came right up though...gross! Anyways, I came out triumphant! You can now use our toilets without feeling like you're using an outhouse! By the way, those weapons promptly were thrown into the dumpster, to insure no further contamination. It was great to actually get in and get to work! Yes, we look terrible in these pictures, but it's worth the embarrassment to let you see how our lovely home is progressing!