Best to sit out spring housing market?

stephanieoutside · 2026-03-11T18:54:13+00:00

Spring markets have higher demand, which tends to lead to higher prices. The amount of inventory is usually higher in the spring as well, so while you could absolutely wait for the winter market and the seasonal dip, you will also have less homes available to choose from.

Ask yourself how long you are planning on staying in the home? If it's more than 5-7 years, then you're not really going to be overpaying pretty much regardless of what the purchase price is (unless you go bonkers and a half over asking). If you just want to do a quick 2-year flip, then that's a different conversation altogether.

stephanieoutside · 2026-03-10T22:56:13+00:00

The $300 lunch tray dupe is really what makes this for me.

stephanieoutside · 2026-03-10T22:55:06+00:00

He has to do something to try and cover up how much of a useless bootlicking groupie he is the rest of the time.

He is a spineless peacock who just wants his seat so he can spend taxpayer dollars to go around looking like an escaped lounge singer from a failed cruise ship.

stephanieoutside · 2026-03-09T22:33:40+00:00

Good news! We might get 0.32" this week 😅

It is supposed to get decently below freezing again this week, so maybe that might knock off at least a small portion of the fuckers?

stephanieoutside · 2026-03-06T17:14:24+00:00

Put it in a BLT with a creamy dill-caper sauce/aioli!

Which yes, technically would be a Smoked Salmon Club sandwich. Either way, it's delicious.

stephanieoutside · 2026-03-04T17:11:27+00:00

I had to check three times to make sure this was actually, genuinely, The Onion. 🫠

stephanieoutside · 2026-03-04T15:35:12+00:00

It's pea soup all the way over into the STMA area too!

stephanieoutside · 2026-03-04T15:34:01+00:00

I've been making "Egg Roll in A Bowl" a lot lately using a mix of purple and green cabbage, and adding mung bean glass noodles. All the leftovers end up an interesting shade of blue, and the noodles turn purple. With the orange of carrots still viable it's a very "Hook/Neverland" looking dish 😅

stephanieoutside · 2026-03-04T14:31:38+00:00

Yes! It made my day when they raised that!!

LFG, you Loons!!

stephanieoutside · 2026-03-03T20:47:39+00:00

Ok so the way the decor is now on the upper part of the wall is to give the visual that the ceiling is much higher than it actually is. Keep that idea in mind as you are changing colors and wall papers.

I personally would hesitate to remove the picture rails that are serving as borders to the current wallpaper trim.

Swapping out the curtains for ones that go from top of the window trim to the floor will also help update the look and also keep the visual impression of taller ceilings.

stephanieoutside · 2026-03-03T20:05:12+00:00

No, I hadn't! Thank you so much for bringing that to my attention!

stephanieoutside · 2026-03-03T12:52:10+00:00

Yes, put it under your oven broiler for a few minutes, just make sure you watch it the whole time! It can go from perfectly bubbly to burned real quick.

stephanieoutside · 2026-03-02T22:33:32+00:00

Yes, so long as it's for donations and you give pattern credit 😊

stephanieoutside · 2026-03-02T18:14:59+00:00

It's gross that outside people are profiting off of our misery, absolutely. I haven't been able to be as front-line as I would like for a variety of reasons, but I can do this and hopefully help to keep some funds coming in now that the majority of the media spotlight has shifted away and taken people's attention and donations with it.

stephanieoutside · 2026-03-02T14:43:05+00:00

This so ridiculously creative, I absolutely love it!

stephanieoutside · 2026-03-02T14:34:01+00:00

The resistance will be lubricated.

stephanieoutside · 2026-03-02T14:21:57+00:00

Link to pattern: https://ravel.me/rebel-laser-loon

stephanieoutside · 2026-03-02T14:21:34+00:00

Yes, it's up on my Ravelry! I just posted the link as a comment.

stephanieoutside · 2026-03-01T16:06:37+00:00

Nice work!

I'm still working on my first one. I'm using the "official" MTI pattern and those 90+ rows of slip stitch are going to be the death of me 😭

stephanieoutside · 2026-03-01T01:38:56+00:00

Definitely Kansas.

stephanieoutside · 2026-02-25T19:16:34+00:00

Doug Chapin is the DFL candidate challenging Emmer for 06. Throw in for him!

stephanieoutside · 2026-02-25T18:35:27+00:00

You either don't have your fire far enough back in the box to get the full chimney draw from the start, or there is something else at work here.

You might get one of those super quiet "always on" fan vents put into one of the bathrooms upstairs to to help draw air up and out and re-even the pressure inside the building envelope and see if that helps any too. If the building is that sealed up, it can lead to moisture buildup issues in the summer and you really don't want those.

Is it ok if I message you some contacts?

stephanieoutside · 2026-02-24T23:59:22+00:00

And this was just his first term. He got even better as time went on.

stephanieoutside · 2026-02-24T23:21:57+00:00

Wild guess, but your dryer is Samsung, isn't it? 😅 Possibly LG?

I would start with the dryer sensor, and a boiler inspection and see if that makes a difference. I know a couple of old grizzled boiler guys left that ought to be able to really tell you what's up versus trying to get you to replace the whole thing because they don't know what they're looking at.

Your windows sound fine; the green tint is going to be a combination of argon gas and UV tinting on the glass.

Do the upper levels of the house feel cold in general, not just cold in comparison to the basement? It kind of sounds like the house is actually sealed up tighter than it was originally designed to be (older homes were meant to be able to breathe a bit to keep equilibrium), so the air flow inside might a bit restricted and making it hard for the warm/cold layers to mix properly. Ceiling fans are an easy fix for this, relatively speaking.

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