How can I become a good housekeeper?

Question

I lost my house to the mortgage company 5 years ago, my ex husband got the last house in a settlement.... now I think its time I learned how to keep a house for myself. Any advice?

Answer 1

Try homesteading. How are you with a plow?

Answer 2

Take a tip from our medieval pals - get a house on a hill, with no neighbours. Dig a damn deep trench around it, filled with sharp pointy sticks, covered in deep water. Then add a high defensive outer wall, coated in something good and slippery, topped with barbed wire. Hire a small private company of archers to see off any troublesome IRS folk or bank staff. Not so much a housekeeper as a compoundkeeper, but it's close enough these days, no?

Answer 3

Are you serious? Damn. I don't know how to answer this. I have been trying to e-mail you back. Glitches. If this is true, you deserve far better. Advice? I married well.
She has covered a number of my blunders and missteps. You write with an elegance and charm that I find rare. Your life has been stormier than I envisioned. You always sound so upbeat. Let's hope that in the next forty years of your life you garner the rewards you deserve. Where did you go to college? I remember early on in April, on your 360 you mentioned the University of Alabama. I could be wrong. Was that the new and improved Tide, or the Crimson Tide?

Answer 4

if you want to keep your house make sure that you don't have anyone's name on it but you. your house, no sharing. house is the first thing you will lose in divorce as you well know. also, do not live beyond your means, if you have to stretch your budget then its better that you look around for something cheaper. look for a house that is a cosmetic fixer-uper, no mold, termits, or excessive water damage. filled with garbage or really ugly, small amounts of back taxes are some things that will make houses more available to you cheaper. be very picky, choose a house that you can afford on a comfortable and realistic budget in a place that you can enjoy living.

Answer 5

I have had so many houses I can't count them. But then I keep landing on the "Go to Jail" space or land on someone's property that has five motels and then I have to mortgage them to pay them off. So I haven't been very good at keeping houses either. I love getting houses on Park Place and Boardwalk, don't you?

Answer 6

Now who could answer a question like this after laughing their faddasses off??

OK, here's what I would do... Paint the entire exterior black and post a sign on your front door "This house supported by local P.D. (minimum 25% of foundation) and is guarded 24 hrs a day by owner infected with deadly airborne-communicable VD's"

No one will go near it, I swear!

Answer 7

Buy a Wendy house. They're much cheaper, banks don't really want them and men would be embarassed to be seen with them.

Sorry this is such a crap answer, but I wasted all my energy on the monogomy question.

Answer 8

those houses were just hotels you had before
you were a guest ......and will continue to be one

my advice to a smart, pretty babe like you is place your two index fingers into your solar plexus and push till you see the colour purple .......and keep just That,

really great put togther question by the way....you writer for a living? lots of intelligent people out there in cyber space !

Answer 9

you need to own a house first. Then to keep it pay the bills on time, and keep it clean.

Answer 10

Try to build one made out of Lego blocks,if "they" come to take it,dismantle it and move.