1. The creepy crawlies. ESPECIALLY the spidies that make their webs from the back table to the roof on the verandah and under all the chairs, across the path to the garden, or between the really badly pruned conifers on either side of our front steps, but most especially the ones that waltz inside under the gappy front door and scurry into my bedroom as it is the closest!
2. The dust. Everything is always dusty. PSLS reckons it’s cos we don’t have real ceilings here. I’m thinking all the gaps wouldn’t help either. I’m also wondering if that is contributing to all the sinusitis problems I’ve had over the past 18 months.
3. The ceiling that isn’t really a ceiling and makes rain deafeningly loud. You know I was sitting in my bedroom the other week when we had a storm go through with the volume on the telly turned up to 40 trying to listen to it. It’s normally on 12.
4. The lack of floor water drainage in wet areas. Seriously. Who doesn’t have floor drainage in the bathrooms and laundry? It has changed the way I clean, but ….. yeah.
And the floors are sloped towards the middle of the house FFS! The last time our laundry flooded from a leaking tap for the washing machine the water seeped under the laundry wall into the bathroom, pooled around the toilet before seeping under the next wall then ran off down the hallway soaking the carpet.
5. The front and back verandahs flooding during heavy rain. It makes for a horrible mess on the front one that needs cleaning up later – the water just pools in the middle of it drawing with it all the accumulated dust/dirt/leaves etc from the area. It also makes for mad dashes out to the back one to rescue the dog food bowls and other things that may float away or not appreciate a good soaking as the lowest part of the verandah is BELOW the level of the yard.
6. Living in a mobile phone dead spot. We HAD to convert all our mobiles to Next G to get service when we moved here. Normal digital mobile service was only gained by standing in a particular spot on the front verandah whilst doing contortions with your phone on speaker so you could yell at it – fine if you wanted to call out, but no so good if someone was trying to get you! Our TV reception is also quite dodgy at times, am so glad we have a set top box because the analogue signal is often unwatchable.
7. The acrobatic aeroplanes buzzing our house for hours on end when they test the planes built at the local hanger before sale. We are like……….. half a kilometre from the airport. The barrel rolls and loop de loops were entertaining the first few times, but now, for hours on end first thing on sleep in Saturday mornings……. meh.
8. Our fucktard neighbours. Well only two of the neighbours are fucktards – Firstly the young bloke next door who plays loud music when his g/f stays over so his mum (whose house it is) can’t hear them doing the wild thing (they have a toddler and I’m pretty sure his mum didn’t buy the whole ” we found it under the cabbage patch story”). He and his mates also uses our driveway instead of their own spreading cat-heads onto our lawn because they don’t worry about keeping those things under control.
Second lot are the ferals two doors down who have raging domestics any time of the day or night and whose kids like to tear up other people’s mail, bully my kids on the bus, let their dogs roam free occasionally to terrorize everyone else’s pets and are just LOUD! All. The. Time!
Our other neighbours are all quiet, lovely people and we can only hope that we are so lucky in our next place.
9. The not-any-longer white carpet. All. Through. The. House. We have children! ‘Nuff said. I won’t even start on the damn mulberry tree planted right at the main walkway through from the garden to the house and the resulting pink stains all through the house during fruiting season.
10. Dirty water. This has been and continues to be a big issue in our town, but it wasn’t one that we had to contend with before we moved here. While the council has been undertaking all sorts of measures to fix the recurring problem it still happens quite regularly. We have a freestanding water dispenser to filter our water for drinking as some days the water is brown. I’m talking really-silty-river-water brown. I’m talking freak-the-kids-out-and-make-them-think-they-have-shit-black-coal-into-the-toilet brown.
I have light coloured clothes that are stained from washing in the dirty water and the girl’s white school shirts need regular soaking to try to keep them clean. It’s not an issue up in the north part of town where we are moving too and one I’m looking forward to not having to contend with any longer.
What are some of the things that annoy you where you are living?
I’m seeing a HUGE silver lining in this forced move…:P
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Mistress B (311 comments.) Reply:
April 12th, 2009 at 1:32 am
I iz seeing a huge silver lining in it too
Good to find a silver lining in the enforced move.
What annoys me about where we live?
Traffic noise from the shopping centre across the road drives me nuts, especially in the lead up to Christmas and New Years sales with trucks delivering at all hours.
Our neighbours kitchen looks straight into our dining room / kitchen. That our neighbours can see into our backyard from their slightly higher up the hill location.
The shower that can switch from hot to cold and back to hot without anyone touching taps anywhere in the house – seems it can’t flow both hot and cold water at the same time.
I am looking forward to moving to.
Mistress B (311 comments.) Reply:
April 12th, 2009 at 1:33 am
I couldn’t live with high traffic noise again – when in QLD we lived on the main road (read the only road) to the highway so we had a constant stream of traffic not to mention emergency vehicles day and night. I like my quiet.
Can stand neighbours being able to stickybeak at us either
I’m with the wise ladies on the silver lining. I hope you luck out with neighbours in your new home. My neighbours are pretty good, but the house is OLD and it gets COLD. I also dislike having a very small backyard that the German Killing Machines have turned into a commando course of ‘dodge the whopping big hole’
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Mistress B (311 comments.) Reply:
April 12th, 2009 at 1:35 am
I’m so glad that our dog doesn’t often dig! Bet you are glad for them to keep you warm on the really cold nights though!
I’m betting you also won’t miss the jasmine on your back fence…..heh.
We have dirty water here in Adelaide too, while it’s no longer actually brown, it still tastes awful, and I buy spring water for drinking. Nothing much annoys me where I am living, there’s the traffic noise from the main road which means I have to close the windows at night to be able to fall asleep, there’s the newish baby in the next door unit, but he’ll grow out of that grizzle through the night stage. Lucky you’re not asking L. EVERYTHING annoys him and he’s often been heard to say he won’t be here next summer/winter/year. But he’s been saying that for 4 years now……..
Mistress B (311 comments.) Reply:
April 12th, 2009 at 1:36 am
I killed all the jasmine! lol
The dirty water is horrible. We use our rain water for drinking water. We still filter it through the water cooler, but I won’t use tap water in it because the filters block up really quickly!
Yeah L sounds real serious about how annoyed he is lol
Where we are now there is little other than a strange set up in the bathroom that means Mark had to rig up a little funnel and pipe thing so it doesn’t flood when we have a shower, but in other places?
Holy Moses the list would be close to endless.
Leaking roof
Pipes that sound like they’re going to come through the wall when you turn the tap on
Light fitting that refuse to hold a globe without blowing the circuit breaker {thank the heavens for the sparky husband}
Open fire places that haven’t had the chimney cleaned in a decade
One place was {literally} infested with huntsmen **shudder** Friend of mine came and killed 104 {yes, 104} in a 20 min killing spree one night.
Amazing the things we can adapt to when we have to isn’t it? And many times it’s not until we move that we comprehend how bad the environment was…..
Hope this new place is one of happiness for all of you, and creates enouh good memories to sustain you for a long time….
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Mistress B (311 comments.) Reply:
April 12th, 2009 at 1:38 am
We are highly adaptable creatures! lol
The place we are in now is brilliant compared to our last tiny, cramped in little house with the horrid windows that didn’t allow air to circulate and that heated up so badly in summer that it was best just to evacuate the house from 3pm till after dark, but yeah…….. I’m looking forward to leaving some of the quirks behind.
One good thing about moving from an imperfect abode is you will enjoy the perfections of the next before its own idiosynchrasies rear their heads!!
Happy move.
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Mistress B (311 comments.) Reply:
April 12th, 2009 at 1:39 am
That’s very true……… I’m just hoping that the next abode isn’t quite as idiosychrastic as this one! lol
Your one neighbors sound HORRIBLE! Hopefully you’ll only have nice considerate ones where you move (here’s to hoping) … I cannot complain too much. I wish I had more storage space and a BIG back yard where I could have a massive veggie garden. Other than that, it’s all good.
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Mistress B (311 comments.) Reply:
April 12th, 2009 at 1:41 am
The neighbours two doors down are horrible. The young bloke getting kinky next door is just annoying lol.
I think some houses have more quirks than others. Extra storage space is something that I think nearly everyone could use!
When I still lived with my mother she rented a house that didn’t lock up.In the winter slugs would slither under the door[ like HEAPS of slugs] so you had to be really careful if you got up at night! If the kitchen sink was emptied while you were using the shower, the shower would flood with food! All of the foors and walls were crooked. Our beds were on coaster wheels and we would roll into the middle of the room during the night.[we had to take the wheels off!] Our bedrooms didn’t even have doors on them! And the reason my Mother took this house? Her idiot boyfriend loved the huge “hanger sized” workshop. My mother was never very good at her job All the best with your new house!
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Mistress B (311 comments.) Reply:
April 12th, 2009 at 1:43 am
Slugs! EWWWWW
All of our floors and walls are crooked here, but fortunately carpet stops anyone’s beds from moving around lol
Your mother sounds like she uses her brains as much as my SWIL (skank whore in law) – not much at all.
Um, the only thing that annoys me about our place is the jobs are never ending. The oustide area is a mammoth task to maintain and as a result isn’t.
I am so excited for you and the move. I know it is a stressful time, but I wish you every happiness at the new place.
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