The wife and I have been discussing various things that we would like to do when our tax refund check shows up in the mail in the near future. We did pretty good this year, we had a lot of deductions and made good use of all of the receipts that we kept in our tax shoe box, that are such a pain in the neck to deal with. But it was well worth the extra effort it took in order the get the best bang for our buck.
We both have things that we would like to see done with the money. Most of it will be used for things concerning the house. She has her eyes on a nice hanging wine glass rack that she has found online at Glassstemwareracks.com. She is good at finding good deals on the Internet and found a site that offers all kinds of wine glass racks for sale that she was showing me last night. I’m good with that and see no reason why we can’t spend a few bucks on nice quality looking wine glass rack. She has good taste and I’m usually right on board with most things that she finds to spend our money on.
My wife has been talking about putting in a couple of new stainless steel kitchen sinks in our kitchen. The one we have came with the house that we bought a long time ago. It was old even then! And the people who installed it put the hot and cold controls on backwards! And the knobs keep falling off! There are a lot of scratches and rust stains. I have to agree, it is way past time to get it. Maybe with our tax refund check we’ll be able to replace it! And I’d like to put in a small bar sink in the kitchen island as well. It would be really handy to have one there!
It has been quite a long time since our town went through the E911 conversion. I remember that letters were mailed to every resident in town, advising all of us that in order to be compliant with the conversion we had to name all of our roads, and put address signs on our houses. The letters were very specific about making sure that each house had an address sign on the side of the house that is visible from the road so that any emergency response vehicle could plainly read the house number from the road.
I remember buying an address plaque for my mother to put on the front of her house. I was amazed at how many different styles, types, sizes, and colors of address plaques there are on the market to choose from! My wife was so annoyed when my mother installed it on the side of the house where no one could see it! She must have nagged my mother and me for weeks before I finally persuaded my mother to let me move it to the front of the house where it belonged!
Bob called me up last night and told me that his father just passed away. He’s known for a long time that he has been ill, and the day has been coming. So he’s going to be moving to Lexington to be near his mother. She’s getting up in years and he wants to be closer to her. So he’s contacted Chapin Real Estate to help him find a place to live. He doesn’t want to move in with his mother; he knows that the grandchildren would just be too much for her. So he’ll be looking for a good price on Chapin Homes to see if he can accommodate his growing family along with the budget restrictions!
I’m always looking for more lockers for sale. Lockers are one of my favorite things to use for storage in my garage, shop, and basement. I’d even like to use a nice looking wood locker in the mud room of the house. They are a great way to organize things and keep things stored out of sight. I like the neat appearance of them.
Whenever my wife and I got antique shopping, or to flea markets we keep an eye out for them. I’m hoping to get a nice set to put in the foyer of the house, but I’d like to have my wife do some decorative painting on them to make them look really special. She’s been a little bit reluctant to put any in the foyer, but I think that since we don’t have a coat closet that lockers might be a good idea.