I Followed The Yellow Brick Road

Sooooo many memories in this tiny space, but it was ours.

When I hear of couples and families now not being able to actually own their home I reflect back on how proud we were to buy our first home the month before we married. Although sweetie was able to move in the month before the wedding we did not officially begin our journey until the day of our wedding.

We bought our home for $18,900. Now that I look back I see the house was only 7 years old. My brother and father came with us for the second look. My brother actually talked them down $500 and we gave them a deposit for $100 for which I still have the receipt. We used the $3000 that my parents had gifted us for our wedding. This was the first of some of the best financial decisions we ever made. We didn’t even need a co-signer for the 95% mortgage. Our qualifying credit was based on the small account Sweetie had maintained at a local auto parts store. I bet that man never realized his good recommendation is what gave us the needed credit for that purchase. The house was home quaint 2/1/1, 901 sq ft. It had the most awesome ceiling heat and one wall a/c unit located in the bedroom. The appliances were harvest gold, indoor outdoor carpet in the kitchen and bedrooms with traditional shag carpet in the living room. The couple that sold us the house were using it as a snowbird home. They left us several things knowing it was our first home. We still have an old scrabble game and a set of dutch boy/girl S&P shakers. I think of the Linscott’s every time we use them.

This would be our home as our little family grew. The boys were teenagers by the time we moved out in 1994. Needless to say it sold for almost double of what we paid and that was minus the ugly green shag carpeting.