Selling the American Dream
This post was originally published on October 21, 2009. However, some of my best posts were written within the first few months of blogging when I had only a handful of readers. Enjoy a blast from the past… (can you tell I’m swamped this week!) My husband and I love watching movies at night, thanks in part to Netflix, it’s really easy for us to download a new or older flick. However, we have noticed a disturbing trend in movies, even those that are 20 years old or more. The...
Read MoreHome is All Relative
I’m not very hip when it comes to music, but thankfully my husband is a music connoisseur. One video and song I’ve become especially fond of is Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zero’s song Home. There’s just something about the video and lyrics that makes me think back to the free loving days of the 1960′s. Of course I wasn’t alive during that decade, so I can only postulate what it may have been like during the love-ins and hippie era of flower children and...
Read MorePsychic Predictions
A couple of days ago I mentioned a comment I overhead. The one about how “everybody” is having to short sale their homes so “everybody’s” credit will be affected by the housing market. I also mentioned at the very end of the post (if anyone actually read to the very end) how I predicted 4 years ago that the housing market wouldn’t keep rising. My main reason for this prediction was that the houses in my area were selling for astronomical prices. Prices that...
Read MoreA Thousand Leagues Under the Sea…Homeowners Tread Water
I recently read an article on MSN.com about underwater homeowners that made me a little angry. First, the article’s focus was on a young lemming, I mean man, who was only $30,000 “underwater” on his mortgage. I say “only” because though he may be slightly upside down on his mortgage, $30,000 isn’t nearly as much as some current homeowners today. Second, the reason this young man was the focus of the story was because he was hoping to find a job elsewhere and...
Read MoreOpen Floor Plans with Blu Homes
Small house plans, little house plans, anything to do with residential architecture seems to resonate with me. Perhaps that’s why I named my blog “Little House in the Valley.” However, recently our little rental house in the valley has been the bane of my existence. How’s that? I run into door ways while turning a corner, I trip over the vacuum that someone’s left in the hallway, I have to leap over hall fans that are placed in our narrow hallways to generate...
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