2018 07: Georgia and Phil Buy a House: Browse The Strips

Tuesday July 24, 2018

Lynn's Comments: My first house cost $27,000. It was a 2-bedroom bungalow with no basement, but it did have a nice sized lot on a ravine with a beautiful view. I'm guessing that same house today would cost well over $800,000.

Wednesday July 25, 2018

Lynn's Comments: It’s interesting to be reading this in 2018—a time when house prices have skyrocketed far beyond our wildest predictions, at least in Vancouver and Toronto.

Saturday July 28, 2018

Lynn's Comments: My first husband had Phil’s philosophy. We saved and saved for the down payment on a house and when we were ready to buy, he suddenly wanted to spend it on a sailboat. We bought the house.

Tuesday July 31, 2018

Lynn's Comments: We once bought a house that had been lived in by lady who had cats. After a year of cleaning and painting, we had to remove the drywall to get the smell out of the bathroom.

Saturday August 4, 2018

Lynn's Comments: When I cleaned out my mother’s house, the downstairs was filled with cooking magazines, plastic containers and canning jars. "You never know when these things will come in handy!"

Saturday August 11, 2018

Lynn's Comments: When I was a child, I looked at many things as if they were animate objects. Drawer pulls, for example looked like smiles. A bathtub faucet and handles could look like a face with a long curved nose. A radio dial looked like a smile with many teeth. Houses, to me, had personalities, and some, like this one, even had a "face."