Saturday 7 November 2015

Stinking Out the House









When you read the advice on selling your home it advises you not to cook strong smelling food as it may put potential buyers off.  Well.........we have accepted an offer on our house so no longer have strangers traipsing through the house every few days.  Keep everything crossed for us that it goes smoothly!   I was getting worried about making my chutneys and pickles for Xmas, they really are pongy when you are preparing them, but now in (tentative) celebration I am filling the house with smelly food.  This morning I filled the slow cooker full of veg curry, the pungent smell of the spices, garlic, onions is permeating every inch of the ground floor and it is bliss :)





A huge bowl of wrinkled peppers bought for a pound from the greengrocer has been chopped and pickled and fish is on the menu again for the bearded one.









So what else has changed,  well I don't have to rush out and brush all the leaves from the patio, (one memorable night in the dark and rain) and the bearded one can put a cup/newspaper/shoes down without out me whisking them out from under his nose.  Life can go back to some sort of normality phew, well sort of.  I now have to start emptying the attic of years worth of ....... well I'm not exactly sure what is up there.  I am determined to have a huge clear out and not take it all with us, some of which came from the attic of our previous house, straight into this attic!




What I really want to do today is cook, go for a walk, read a book and hopefully a little bit of crafting later, simple stress free things.  I feel like a huge weight has been lifted off my shoulders and I can breath again.  I feel so lucky that we got an offer after a couple of weeks, I can't imagine the stress levels if it had gone on for a long time.  Rushing home from work to prepare the house,  (one viewer beat me to it and was peering in the windows as I arrived home), checking that the cat hadn't vomited on the carpet while I had been at work and trying to keep up unrealistic goals of tidiness takes it's toll.  The buyers are not in a chain, not in a hurry and willing to wait for us to find somewhere, I'm hoping with everything I can hope with, that this will proceed. We do have another family who asked to be informed if it didn't go through but they would want to move in ASAP so not ideal as we haven't seen anything yet that we both like.  I'm sure our future home is out there somewhere, it may take us some time to find it but it will be worth it in the end, in the meantime I will enjoy my smelly home.

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Chickpea xx

25 comments:

  1. Congratulations, I do hope you find your dream home soon. It's a shame that the UK don't use the same rules on buying and selling that they have in Spain, once a price is agreed a deposit has to be paid, if the buyer pulls out they forfeit the deposit, if the seller pulls out they have to pay back double the deposit, it stops gazumping on the sellers side and time wasters on the buyers side.

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  2. I'm so pleased you have had an offer so quickly, we have also accepted an offer on ours and like you I'm glad we don't have to show anyone else around. What next is also our thoughts.

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  3. keeping everything crossed for you, I am sure now you are in a calm state of mind you find your dream home :-)

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  4. Congratulations - it's nice now that some of the pressure is off and you can relax a little. Good luck in finding your new property :)

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  5. Fingers crossed it all goes through for you. Hope you have time to relax now.

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  6. Congratulations! I'm so happy for you. I hope everything works out smoothly. I remember when we sold our first house, they suggested that we cook something homey and have a seasonal candle burning in the house just before people came to look. I made chili and burned a pumpkin candle (it was fall) and the house sold in just three weeks! I'd like to think the aromas helped. :)

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  7. Hooray! First hurdle over. Let's hope it goes smoothly from now. Enjoy your lovely cooking smells :)

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  8. Oh exciting, congratulations!
    And may you find your happy home soon.

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  9. Oh so exciting! I'm so glad you got an offer so quick. I remember what it was like when we were selling our last house and it is impossible to keep up that level of show home when a family actually lives in a house. Fingers crossed you see something soon, happy cooking. xx

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  10. Well done for getting an offer so quick. Fingers and toes crossed it all goes well and you find your next dream house.
    Rosezeeta

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  11. Congratulations! Here's to finding your dream house. xx

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  12. congratulations! x (checking on the cat made me laugh, our cat vomited on the kitchen floor when we had someone viewing our house......... )

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  13. Tasty stuff, I so wish I could cook cheap healthy food. But not the avocado I had today. It was horrible.

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  14. Congratulations! It is such a relief when you know you are on the way with house buying/selling! You can now enjoy your home again and have the excitement of finding a new home and packing up the old one. I remember when we were trying out the market that I wouldn't let anyone use the loos when I'd cleaned them before a viewing... they had to use the neighbours!! xx

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  15. Happy moments! ;) I hope you find something awesome soonest..

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  16. Oh, I completely understand, and feel for you with your tidy house and non-smelling house. It took us 1.5 years to sell our house - and it was murder!!

    So happy for you that your's sold so quickly - well done!

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  17. Fantastic glad to hear you've got an offer. Let's hope you find something you like fairly soon and that it hasn't got too long a chain. :-)

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  18. Congrations !
    Fabulous to hear you have an offer in.
    You are the second blogger on your side of the pond that just sold their home.

    cheers, parsnip

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  19. Congratulations on the offer! I hope that all goes well!! xx

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  20. Fingers crossed for you, great news about the offer :)

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  21. Hope that all goes well for you.

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  22. Thank you so much everyone, we still have a looooooong way to go but staying positive xx

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  23. Congratulations. Now the paperwork. Sorry to being that up when you were on a high. Will you share your smelly recipes here?

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  24. Loads of luck with the House Move,fingers crossed for it all going smoooothly.LOVE your grub and your fab pics make me feel hungry.xx

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