The bathroom project - or why my water bill was $200 this month

[samae]

We have been very slowly, glacier-like even, doing improvements to our house.  Generally our motivation is for personal use, but if the future sale value increases, then great.   However as any homeowner knows, the process builds upon itself.  Buying a hot tub means you need to build a deck to put it on.  Which also means shelving for the towels,

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[chaderic]

In retrospect it's almost funny. Almost.

[samae]

^---- Chad of the above story.

water is not our friend

[chaderic]

Too funny. Welcome to my world .My gutters are broken and when we had all the rain last week, I had 9 inches of water in my basement crawl space. NOT FUN.. not funny. I hope one day it might be? Take pictures. Atleast I can live through your bathroom remodel!!

[angelundercover]

I laughed so hard that I cried reading this.

For that, I thank you!

I needed it. No, I don't take pleasure in others' pain, but OMG the way you write about it...priceless!

[lescaut]

Haha. Erma Bombeck--that's perfect!

[samae]

Erma Bombeck good. Sometimes I worry I'm more Roseanne Barr!

[thepikey]

Psst! Will! Dad also qualifies as a MAN!, so it's allowed.

Just sayin'.

[belyal]

Pure comedy gold. It's never that funny around here b'c I ALWAYS hire other folks to do this kind of thing. I can handle hanging a picture, anything more than that, I figure someone else can do it.