Final out on the old house was today. It went fine- interesting, but fine.

Turns out. . .the “new” carpet was actually the old carpet. So, no, contrary to popular belief- that wasn’t all us. Do you know how many people told me it was new?

I saw spots reappear within in weeks of moving in and we had a few plumbing issues that ruined certain rooms and I’ve been living with serious carpet mildew for over a year now- the only thing that was getting me through was knowing I didn’t have to pay for it- when we first talked they were all “It was new. . .and we have no record of these disasters (really? nothing about having to replace all the tile when the pipe burst in the kitchen? Nothing at all?). . .so we’ll take three years off but. . .$$$$$.

Idiots. The house record may have missed the repairs that would have totally cleared us from responsibility, but it did note that it was the house’s original carpet. ORIGINAL. As in been through at least 3 families with kids and dogs and people walking around in dirty combat boots.

Finally, I’m free of that evil carpet.

Breath with me for a moment.

Despite all of the help, our friends who cleaned the kitchen forgot the drawers and inside the cupboards. So I did those. Not a big deal! With how many people were in there, I’ll bet they couldn’t even open the cupboards!

They also never opened the cupboard where all of the cleaning supplies I had purchased for the people cleaning were kept. So. . .ummm. . .we have our year’s supply of cleaning stuff. And then some. Anybody need a magic eraser?

The lady came back and was a little ridiculous about the cupboards. I was distracted and forgot the bottom ones. She wanted to charge us $50 to have someone do about 15 minutes worth of cleaning. I put my foot down and she was all, “This will take a looooong time.” I said, “I could have this done in 20 minutes.” So she’s telling me that she has to go and the entire office is closing early because of the holiday and they can charge me for an extra day which is more than the $50 for cleaning.

So I’m all- well, if you get 3 hours off today, how about I get three hours extra too? Seems fair. Five days is five days. So she called her boss, and they gave me 15 minutes to get it done before they would re-assess. She treated me like I was insane to even try and that there was NO possible way to get them done that fast.

Never underestimate a money grubbing woman with two kids who have been taught to clean. I had them done in 15 minutes, and done well. Ha. The kids got major Mom-props for their help.

We did get charged for the fridge handle and a housekey (I think Chris may have taken that with him to the desert-ha!)- so only $35. Not bad.

And I’m FREEEEEEEEE to go enjoy my new house. . .the house with no downstairs carpeting and lovely, lovely wood floors that I can drop a whole gallon of grape juice on with no lasting consequence!