A 'for sale' sign doesn't equal an instant sale...
It's official, there's a "for sale" sign up on the lawn now. So this means that we're eventually moving sooner or later. The house has been on the market for a while but we had been reluctant to put a sign up until my mom changed her mind last week. Previously, we had only gotten occasional offers and people rarely came to look at the house. The last offer we got about three weeks ago involved a woman who sold her own house before she had a new house to move into. So she saw our house, liked it and wanted to make settlement in two weeks. Her insane offer was turned down because we didn't have another house to move into and even if we did (and that house was empty) it would have been impossible to move in two weeks. She then countered with an offer that was for less than the house was worth in addition to paying for each week she had to stay in a rental home. Now that was the final deal breaker. Honestly, if she needed a house that badly maybe she should have tried looking at empty or foreclosed homes. (Or you know, not sold her home without making sure she had housing first...) Sorry lady but the phrase, "A sucker is born every minute" isn't going to be applied to us.
Fortunately, the best deal to come out of this moving sooner or later is the storage space. Since I have permission to use it for my extra things I've started cleaning under my bed. Yesterday I found my old dusty consoles, and by old I mean very old. I located my Sega Genesis, Super Nintendo and my Nintendo 64. Out of the three the Sega no longer works (it crapped out a few years ago) but I'm not surprised, I had the thing since I was ten-years-old. I'm 25 now, so that's quite life for a system that has moved from Philadelphia, to Phoenix and back to Philadelphia again. The SNES still works, but the only controller I have doesn't work quite right. The N64 works just fine, thankfully. If I wasn't the type to collect things I'd honestly put all of my stuff up on eBay for a few dollars (I'm sure my copy of Chrono Trigger would bring in some decent money), but I'd regret that sooner or later. So my things are going into storage, but having old systems around makes me appreciate efforts like Nintendo's Virtual Console, Sony's PlayStation Network, and Microsoft's Xbox Live Arcade all the more. I really don't want physical copies of my old games anymore, especially when space is limited and the consoles themselves may or may not work anymore. I'm also glad I came from a single parent household since we didn't have a lot of money for video games when I was young, so I only have a few to move. (I was heavily into renting games as a kid.) However, I do have a few favorites and the clutter is still sort of impressive, maybe. But if I had as many Genesis, SNES, N64, GB, GBC and GBA games as I do PS2, DS, PSP and DVDs I'd have a serious mess on my hands.
-At least the games still work, right? Oh and Body Harvest was the worst, no wonder it was only $5 dollars when I bought it...
-Rocket Knight Adventures was a blast. The Lion King (Genesis version) was a great action/platformer and Sonic 3D Blast just about killed my interest in the Sonic games. Although people tell me I should give the Sonic Adventure games on the Dreamcast a try.
Now, to actually move the stuff into storage today. (The broken consoles and controllers will sent off to be recycled or disposed of as hazardous waste.) With any luck I may find myself helping set up a computer at Tyrone's house and ogling his new PS3 ( an older fully backwards compatible model), or doing my taxes online before TBL chat. I guess either scenario is a good one.
Fortunately, the best deal to come out of this moving sooner or later is the storage space. Since I have permission to use it for my extra things I've started cleaning under my bed. Yesterday I found my old dusty consoles, and by old I mean very old. I located my Sega Genesis, Super Nintendo and my Nintendo 64. Out of the three the Sega no longer works (it crapped out a few years ago) but I'm not surprised, I had the thing since I was ten-years-old. I'm 25 now, so that's quite life for a system that has moved from Philadelphia, to Phoenix and back to Philadelphia again. The SNES still works, but the only controller I have doesn't work quite right. The N64 works just fine, thankfully. If I wasn't the type to collect things I'd honestly put all of my stuff up on eBay for a few dollars (I'm sure my copy of Chrono Trigger would bring in some decent money), but I'd regret that sooner or later. So my things are going into storage, but having old systems around makes me appreciate efforts like Nintendo's Virtual Console, Sony's PlayStation Network, and Microsoft's Xbox Live Arcade all the more. I really don't want physical copies of my old games anymore, especially when space is limited and the consoles themselves may or may not work anymore. I'm also glad I came from a single parent household since we didn't have a lot of money for video games when I was young, so I only have a few to move. (I was heavily into renting games as a kid.) However, I do have a few favorites and the clutter is still sort of impressive, maybe. But if I had as many Genesis, SNES, N64, GB, GBC and GBA games as I do PS2, DS, PSP and DVDs I'd have a serious mess on my hands.
-At least the games still work, right? Oh and Body Harvest was the worst, no wonder it was only $5 dollars when I bought it...
-Rocket Knight Adventures was a blast. The Lion King (Genesis version) was a great action/platformer and Sonic 3D Blast just about killed my interest in the Sonic games. Although people tell me I should give the Sonic Adventure games on the Dreamcast a try.
Now, to actually move the stuff into storage today. (The broken consoles and controllers will sent off to be recycled or disposed of as hazardous waste.) With any luck I may find myself helping set up a computer at Tyrone's house and ogling his new PS3 ( an older fully backwards compatible model), or doing my taxes online before TBL chat. I guess either scenario is a good one.