Shower curtain and rings. That's one thing that is almost never there and you desperately want after hauling all that shit.

I just spent a few minutes looking at the personals on Craigslist and found a woman who's looking for a man who "doesn't use Fluoride toothpaste, acknowledges The Kemet and The Ankh, and is respectful toward women."

Fluoride toothpaste is a deal-breaker?

I think brushing your teeth would be a deal breaker ... but, then, I'm single and unlikely to change that.

Anyone with that as a deal breaker is a whackaloon and probably thinks vaccination is the devil's work.

Gronk.

What is the deal with lightbulb fraud? (These were cheap incandescent bulbs.)

I confess that I have, as a renter, used compact fluorescent bulbs when I lived in a place and swapped them back out for dollar store incandescents when I moved out. They were my own CFLs, though.

Well, I believe one's penis getting caught in something was implied by the instructional picture, yes.

Hahaha!

Jesus, people are so petty as to take light fixtures? Part of our reno to try to get the house to sell for the price we need is BUYING new light fixtures for 5 rooms!

I mean, I AM taking our new fancy showerhead we got for Xmas, but we wrote that into our disclosure, and saved the old one (which work fine, but the fancy one is awesome!) and will put it back on before we move. We're leaving blinds too, and are buying a few blinds for the dining room.

We have a 2nd open house on the 22nd, after all the reno is done, and unlike the first opem house, which was the fucking day after we got home from Xmas travel and a week and a half after we found out that Elizabeth had put the house on the market ("I thought you agreed with me!" sez she, and Dan had totally had been clear about not wanting to start showings until after Micah left from the holidays.)

So the house was normal-clean, but in no way suitable for an open house.

This time I'm letting my Virgo loose on this bitch! It'll look GREAT.

Last day at work is WEIRD. I guess I could leave now if I really wanted to...I haven't done any actual work since about 10am...

In our seller's case, the light fixtures she took were fancy ones she'd brought back from Germany, so it makes sense that she would want to keep them, BUT in the contract it explicitly stated she would replace them with standard fixtures (and not just leave us with wires hanging out of the ceiling) which she didn't do.

Which wound up being fine, because we were planning to replace all of them with ceiling fans anyway, but we didn't expect to just NOT HAVE LIGHTS when we moved in!

I'm guessing last day in a house has some stuff in common with last day at a job -- I'm sure there's a ton of stuff you could do to make things better for those coming behind you, but will you? Maybe yes, maybe not.

Are you sure your co-workers aren't going to surprise you with a going away something or other, Jess? In case leaving early would mess that up, I mean.