Day 3 of blogging and I am sitting here thinking about the first years of my husband and I's marriage. We were dirt poor and both of our jobs paid five dollars an hour and that was not easy to live on. We both had car payments and insurance so adding rent, utilities and groceries created some budgeting problems at times. One of our first rentals was a trailer with very bad floors. I don't know how we kept from going through them they were so bad. We had roaches and every time the field across the road was bush hogged the mice would run into our trailer. Every time one of the mouse traps snapped I would just cringe. When you live in a place like that you have one motivation and this is to get out.
When we had our first daughter, I did not want to bring her home to that trailer, it gave me nightmares to think about it. I kept her bassinet right next to my bed every night and woke up every 10 minutes checking on her. I was never so glad as to leave a place as I was when we moved out of there.
The next rental was a little better, it was a house and there weren't any roaches. It had a wall unit for the furnace and it would build up gas inside and sporadically explode causing the vents to pop out and hit the floor. The first time that it happened we were sleeping and we jolted out of bed ran for our daughter's room, she never heard it and was sound asleep and we had no idea what to do because we had no idea what had just happened. The owner assured us that it he would take care of this, he never fixed it right.
Through the years we worked hard, saved money and bought the house we have now. After living in all of the first rentals we appreciate what we have now every time we walk in the house and there are no mice, no bad floors, no roaches, and no bad furnace, in fact we have electric everything, no gas anything.
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