It makes sense if your house has significantly appreciated, so you can plow some of that money back into making it even more appreciated. (Financially speaking.)
River: I know you have questions. Mal: That would be why I just asked them.
'Objects In Space'
Natter 75: More Than a Million Natters Served
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Theodosia - Sep 11, 2017 11:22:18 am PDT #16501 of 30002
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Jesse - Sep 11, 2017 12:05:25 pm PDT #16502 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Well, my analyst was away for a big chunk of August, and I'm just now getting back into the swing of things with him on my childhood/self-esteem/loneliness issues. My anxiety levels were already high enough that 9/11 isn't making much of an additional impact
Oh man! Well, love to you regardless.
flea - Sep 11, 2017 1:37:39 pm PDT #16503 of 30002
information libertarian
We are doing a big remodel and we got the money these ways: 1) deliberately putting 10% down on the house when we could have afforded more and saving that cash for the expected remodel, 2) getting used to living on one paycheck when we moved and I was out of work for a year, and not adjusting all the way back up when I got a job, 3) mr. flea's parents believe in being very fair and so they gave us some money because they gave his sister some money (she needed money, we didn't, but they don't think that way), 4) our county, which is full of old housing stock in disrepair, has a low-interest loan for exactly this purpose.
P.M. Marc - Sep 11, 2017 1:46:47 pm PDT #16504 of 30002
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Plei, do you have a financial advisor? Ours was the adult in the room who told us whether to use our money, his money, or someone else's money.
AHAHAHAHA. A what? No, no we don't.
We are doing a big remodel and we got the money these ways: 1) deliberately putting 10% down on the house when we could have afforded more and saving that cash for the expected remodel, 2) getting used to living on one paycheck when we moved and I was out of work for a year, and not adjusting all the way back up when I got a job, 3) mr. flea's parents believe in being very fair and so they gave us some money because they gave his sister some money (she needed money, we didn't, but they don't think that way), 4) our county, which is full of old housing stock in disrepair, has a low-interest loan for exactly this purpose.
Ah, so through very specific, not very broadly applicable methods!
Which is to say, equity loan appears to be the way forward, should we desire improvements. (I fear these, given that this is how we wound up with two houses for many years, but I should remind myself that we had 20% down in this house, have been here a while, and though housing could always crash and correct, probably not right away to the cost of a new roof or even an improved bathroom.)
Amy - Sep 11, 2017 2:04:06 pm PDT #16505 of 30002
Because books.
Posted without comment, one of the shows at NYFW (and NreallySFW): [link]
Sheryl - Sep 11, 2017 2:07:29 pm PDT #16506 of 30002
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
Timelies all!
Well, that fashion show was really...something.
Dana - Sep 11, 2017 2:35:43 pm PDT #16507 of 30002
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
I feel like those models have the basis for some kind of lawsuit.
Connie Neil - Sep 11, 2017 2:41:11 pm PDT #16508 of 30002
brillig
Another line of people chanting "I'm getting paid for this, I'm getting paid for this. Other fashion houses are seeing I can pull this shit off as much as it can be pulled off."
shrift - Sep 11, 2017 2:54:35 pm PDT #16509 of 30002
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
Much like the Spanish Inquisition, I was not expecting the butt stuff.
-t - Sep 11, 2017 2:56:58 pm PDT #16510 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
That's....kind of awesome?