Adulting

Who would’ve thought that adulting meant constantly trying to make decisions. It is a little exhausting. My wife and I started the process of looking for houses over the past year. We are in no hurry at all, so we have just taken our time and looked around. I’m sick of the house we live in now, but we aren’t going to move just to move. We would have to find the perfect house in order to move. We really don’t want to move our kids schools since they are finally building strong friendships. We are going to basically stay in the same area, but would like to keep the kids stable if possible.

Having the housing market the way it is, we decided to put the search on hold for a while. We will still keep our eye out, and if that perfect house comes by, we may pull the trigger. For now we decided maybe just wait a couple years until our kids go to junior high. This means we need to continue to upgrade our house so it’s easier to sell when the time is right.

This is where the decisions come in. How much do we spend? What is worth it, and what is the next person’s problem? We need new windows badly. We were going to just leave them if we were moving soon, but now that it’ll be a few years, we decided maybe we need to get them replaced. That’s a big money decision that is tough. We would get the benefits of new windows for a couple years, but we will never get the money we paid for them back when we sell.

We had someone come out and give us a quote, and it was about what we thought. I was hoping we could just replace some of the bad ones, but with the new windows, they look totally different so it would be obvious. These are the decisions that suck making as an adult. If any of you “know a guy,” please let me know. I guess I have made the decision to get my windows replaced.