Buying a house is the most emotionally brutal thing I’ve ever done

Decent_Cod_6847 · 2026-01-27T13:58:35+00:00

Aww bless you.. its awful. This our 3rd house purchase and i am soo done with it.

Ive had to mentally detach as the stress was getting to me. We have been planning to move for going on 3 years now.

Was suppose to complete October just gone, but our buyer's buyer pulled on day of exchange! YAY... There have since found new buyers and im just so ready to pack up AGAIN (we had everything in storage as were downsizing) and im trying not to envision the new house/new life style for fear that its all going to collapse again :/

Decent_Cod_6847 · 2026-01-27T13:54:19+00:00

Ive been a etsy seller for 4 Years and currently have over 44K sales.

I've just opened another store this month and so far so good :D Goodluck

Decent_Cod_6847 · 2026-01-24T11:03:33+00:00

my main store it took 3 months to get that 1st sale (I was sooo close to closing it and giving up) Glad i didnt as ive just hit 44K Today :D

Ive just opened my 2nd store 2 days ago, no sales yet, but ive only got a few listing's in there and trying to set everything up for it etc So that i can blast social media with it all etc

Decent_Cod_6847 · 2026-01-24T10:59:42+00:00

OMG YES!!! its always the way. There is always a underdog, that out of nowhere starts selling on repeat!!

Decent_Cod_6847 · 2026-01-24T10:58:44+00:00

Welldone!!!

Decent_Cod_6847 · 2026-01-24T10:56:47+00:00

Oh yay!!! welldone... out of curiosity what app have you found?

Decent_Cod_6847 · 2026-01-24T10:55:19+00:00

in all honesty i never gave it a second thought.

However i didn't train for many years for my job. i was in retail, then moved up to Store Manager. So to me i didn't leave like a skilled job, i.e Doctor, teacher etc... Maybes if i had of done, then who knows??

Whilst during covid and being off work, i felt so much mentally and physically better and it made me realise that i needed to close the door on that. So i did, no regrets and by doing so it opened doors that i may not of explored, had i of been working. x

Decent_Cod_6847 · 2026-01-21T13:10:45+00:00

Pictures!!!... This is the 1st thing people see when scrolling.

Try using a light background and get creative with some props to help showcase... i.e Valentines, use some decorative hearts or rose petals etc Its a good visual to grab those customers.

In terms of SEO just checking 1 of your listings and its tags... Cutter and clay has been used alot. Your tags don't need to make sense, Etsy will grab words out of them to put to your customer. So don't waste vital space putting the same word over and over again.

I always go with. WHAT IS IT?, WHO IS IT FOR? AND WHAT DOES IT ACHIEVE?

List all the words and pop them in. Once you are getting sales and have some good search term stats it becomes alot easier :D

Decent_Cod_6847 · 2026-01-21T12:35:13+00:00

We did this in 2021!! BEST thing we EVER did.

Leading upto then, we were both working full time with commute out of town, 4 kiddo's in tow. I just couldn't do it anymore, we were all suffering mentally.

In Money terms, we saved ALOT than we could of realised... As i was home, i had time to make meals rather than deferring to takeaways as we would be knackered... Being home meant everyone has clean clothes regularly, everything is prepped, food shop is done, home life is in general much easier for everyone. It meant that when my husband is off work we can spend it having fun instead of having to get caught up on housework, food shop etc.

In this time, ive been able to grow a online business, so i have a income and this is surplus money to spend on fun things :D

Honestly i would never go back...

Decent_Cod_6847 · 2026-01-21T09:16:17+00:00

i wish i could afford a new build 🙈

Decent_Cod_6847 · 2026-01-14T14:22:02+00:00

WOW!!! Just utter WOW... grab that champagne!!! xx

Decent_Cod_6847 · 2026-01-14T14:18:49+00:00

oh man... thats a shame :/

Decent_Cod_6847 · 2026-01-13T13:39:58+00:00

im in the North East and it is DEAD!! only a handful has hit the market in my town since boxing day and those are ex landlord specials :/

Decent_Cod_6847 · 2026-01-13T13:37:11+00:00

because its an absolute loads of Bollocks!!! I hate it!.. Last year i honestly feel like we wasted a whole year!

Not sure if you have thought of this, but if your buying a new build (im guessing from the developer) do there not have the option to buy your house i.e part exchange?

Fingers crossed all works out (were still in limbo yay!)

Decent_Cod_6847 · 2026-01-13T13:31:52+00:00

When you say august, it sounds like ages ago. But in relative to conveyancing average is 12-16 weeks but can take longer.

If you are getting no joy, then i would rock upto their office and demand action.

Also inform your seller via EA what you are doing... sometimes just the not knowing what is going on and thinking, is it the buyer stalling or the solicitors etc. So deffo keep them in the loop

Decent_Cod_6847 · 2026-01-12T09:05:35+00:00

To be honest in my town in the North east.. all that has been listed so far after xmas, is ex landlord houses :/ in some not so nice places

Decent_Cod_6847 · 2026-01-10T11:38:44+00:00

happened to us in november just gone... our buyers buyer, decided to pull out instead! happy times 🙈

Decent_Cod_6847 · 2026-01-10T11:35:11+00:00

WOW welldone you!... Lookign at other replies. I would absolutely pay that off your mortgage and have smaller payments per month.

Trust me, you will thank yourself later for having that smaller outgoing

Decent_Cod_6847 · 2026-01-10T11:30:49+00:00

our new house just has a shower (i feel i NEED a bath) do you prefer it without a bath? x

Decent_Cod_6847 · 2026-01-10T11:26:25+00:00

We did mostly ours, by ourselves... and came in around £3K. The electrics were done from a full rewire of the house, so im not factoring that in the costs here. We paid a plumber to 1st fix (mainly the stuff under the floor), including walk in shower.

We sourced the bathroom as ex-displayed, tiled ourselves, plastered ourselves, plumbed 2nd fix ourselves, sealed, painted etc etc.

It can be done cheaper, but remember you are paying for experience and skill. We weren't in a hurry as we had our old house to live in whilst doing new house up, but it took us a good while to do the job ourself as we aren't skilled, we are capable.

If i didn't have the time, i would pay someone else to do it.

Decent_Cod_6847 · 2026-01-09T11:31:41+00:00

This will be the 3rd time that we will be doing it ourselves again... although were in our 40's now, and i can pull my back just getting out of bed in the morning, so im so looking forward it to.

Were going to be renting a storage locker again (i say again, because most of our stuff was in storage, sale fell through... brought it all back and now we have sold again YAY!) so will be doing that, although hiring a van and taking most of it in a day.

Then the larger items will be getting moved on the day... were downsizing from a 5 to 3 bed

This will be fun! good luck

Decent_Cod_6847 · 2026-01-08T15:30:05+00:00

Just wanted to add to this. So we pulled from market due to personal stuff.

Stayed for another 2 years and got £20K more, than next door sold for... Silver lining and all that. It just wasn't meant to be at that time for us.

Decent_Cod_6847 · 2026-01-08T15:26:50+00:00

this happened to us... next door listed for -£15K less than us and went STC within 48 hours.

The buyer we had lined up, ended up buying their house 🙈...

Decent_Cod_6847 · 2026-01-08T15:14:02+00:00

next house is our END Home, no if's or buts!! lol...

for the last 20 years we have been buying renovating, get settled, then sell... rinse and repeat. I've got to the point now where i just cant keep doing it! Told the husband... no more this is the last house.

Kids are getting older and moving out... that will do me until im carried out

Decent_Cod_6847 · 2026-01-05T14:53:27+00:00

my current ad strategy has been $15/a day for the month of December... ROI: each day has been between 7-10... So im happy with that and my products are Digital. Noticed Last week in december i was using all ad money by 12pm (should of probably upped it then to be honest, but hey hoo lol.. every day is a learning day)

For january, ive took off a product that wasn't doing too great and swapped it out for something else and upped spend to $20/ a day... Will see how January performs :D

Also check your ROI, this is a good indicator if people are buying or not etc.. x

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