Oh noes... I think I've created a monster....

[baimun]

We've had Vontage phone service, so for the longest time I didn't bother patching it back into the house phones or whatever... we just had a single phone in the house.

Well I just hooked up a phone system with speakerphone and intercom throughout the house. Base station is by the computer in the family room, Extension One in the living room, two is in the kitchen, three in the master bedroom, four is in the laundry room... and I've got enough handsets to do the other bedrooms and the garage too.

I thought it might save us running to the other room for the phone, or not yelling down the stair well when someone's in the laundry room.




The first time my wife uses it... "Are you going to come up here and do the dishes?"


"I'm sorry... you have the wrong number."

[reverend1]

Those dishes aren't going to wash themselves.

[baimun]

I made the pizza dammit!!!

[Mark Wein]

Our house is so small that you can hear the dog breathe from one end of the house to another. We don't need a fancy intercom system

[Chihlidog]

My wife, courtney and I will all text each other at times. All in the same house :/

[baimun]

Our house is so small that you can hear the dog breathe from one end of the house to another. We don't need a fancy intercom system

our house is only 2000 sq ft.... it's just two levels so when one is upstairs with the TV on and the other is downstairs with their guitar amp on.....

[BoomBoomBigelow]

Fuck intercoms. Fuck them in their fucking meathead circuitboards. They're worse than in-house texting.

[Help!I'maRock!]

Fuck intercoms. Fuck them in their fucking meathead circuitboards. They're worse than in-house texting.

better than outhouse texting.

[BoomBoomBigelow]

better than outhouse texting.

No. No, it's not. I can can see the functional purpose of outhouse texting. Should it be the case that one is at the same time, both technologically backward and forward.

[Mark Wein]

our house is only 2000 sq ft.... it's just two levels so when one is upstairs with the TV on and the other is downstairs with their guitar amp on.....

ours is one level, a little less than 1100 sq ft.

[Help!I'maRock!]

No. No, it's not. I can can see the functional purpose of outhouse texting. Should it be the case that one is at the same time, both technologically backward and forward.

[reverend1]

I told you never to call me on this wall!

[B Valley]

"Hey, you sound really cute. What are you wearing?"

"Dad, knock it off".

[reverend1]

The day Mrs. Rev texts me while we are both inside the house, is the day I deactivate her phone.

[Jbird]

ours is one level, a little less than 1100 sq ft.

I've got you beat. 720 sq ft.

[Mark Wein]

I've got you beat. 720 sq ft.

Yow thats small. I'm guessing you're not fitting a family of 4's junk into it though at least. Our garage is a glorified storage unit.

[Jbird]

Yow thats small. I'm guessing you're not fitting a family of 4's junk into it though at least. Our garage is a glorified storage unit.

I park my car in the garage

Yeah, I'm single and the house was cheap.

I still wish it'd been bigger though.

[Mark Wein]

I park my car in the garage

Yeah, I'm single and the house was cheap.

I still wish it'd been bigger though.

I just wish we had a little more storage and a lot less junk.

[reverend1]

I just wish we had a little more storage and a lot less junk.

Seems line two problems with one solution.

[Prages]

Our house is over 2000 square feet, there's just two of us, and we still have too much crap to fit into it.

[Kerouac]

Our house is over 2000 square feet, there's just two of us, and we still have too much crap to fit into it.

I'm right at 2000 square feet, it's just me and *I* have too much crap filling it up.

One of my grandparent's houses had an intercom though and as a kid it was AWESOME.

[Mark Wein]

Seems line two problems with one solution.

Sunday we cleaned the garage. I backed my truck and the suburban up on the driveway and told my wife "trash in the truck and donate in the SUburban". We filled both to the gills and you still cant park a car in the garage

[Kerouac]

This autumn I NEED to clean and organize my garage. I'll get some shelves and organize things a bit, because right now I still have some shit in there from when I moved in over a year ago.

[pw5470]

I would hate having an intercom, but it would beat the wife screaching that she needs something.

We have about 2300 sq feet and in our cul-d-sac of 7 houses, we are one of only two homes that can park in the garage

[Help!I'maRock!]

Seems line two problems with one solution.

selling children on the black market is illegal.

[Mark Wein]

I would hate having an intercom, but it would beat the wife screaching that she needs something.

We have about 2300 sq feet and in our cul-d-sac of 7 houses, we are one of only two homes that can park in the garage

do you have a basement, too? I would kill for a basement.

[Help!I'maRock!]

do you have a basement, too? I would kill for a basement.

korean girlfriend?

[Mark Wein]

korean girlfriend?

nah. My kids are too big to chain to a pipe in our crawlspace.

[pw5470]

do you have a basement, too? I would kill for a basement.

No basement, just a crawl space but we have an awesome cubby hole over the garage that we use for storage. Not huge but it holds a fair amount of junk, decorations, etc. Got shelves in the garage for some stuff and hangars on the walls for a bike and lawn chairs.

When we bought the house and brought my dad over to see it for the first time, he marveled at the garage and said "I bet you'll have it filled in no time and won't park in there". I make it a point to leave the garage door up everytime he comes so I can show him can see how neat it is and how much room I have to park the cars in there.

Would love to have a basement though and make that the music area. We have a niece staying with us so I lost the 3rd bedroom as a music room and now have to use the loft area with no doors.

[Mark Wein]

I built shelving and workbenches for our rental that I moved here when we bought the house but I have a weight bench that never gets used, extra furniture, not one but two lawnmowers and other lawn stuff as well as a ton of other stuff. I'm gradually getting it to the point where we will be able to park at least one car in there.

[pw5470]

If we only had 1100 sq feet then our garage would be full too.

[baimun]

What we're also forgetting is that Mark lives in the OC.... which means his house probably still costs 4 or 5 times what mine does, even if it sits on one quarter of the land.



Edit: Yep... just looked up stats and the average cost per square foot in our area is around $70... in Mark's area it's $297.

[Help!I'maRock!]

What we're also forgetting is that Mark lives in the OC.... which means his house probably still costs 4 or 5 times what mine does, even if it sits on one quarter of the land.

OTOH, people actually want to live there.

[baimun]

OTOH, people actually want to live there.

I would argue with you if I could.

[Mark Wein]

What we're also forgetting is that Mark lives in the OC.... which means his house probably still costs 4 or 5 times what mine does, even if it sits on one quarter of the land.



Edit: Yep... just looked up stats and the average cost per square foot in our area is around $70... in Mark's area it's $297.

Don't get me started. Watching "House Hunters" makes me very mad.

[Mark Wein]

OTOH, people actually want to live there.

most folks I went ot high school with live in other parts of the country now.

[Help!I'maRock!]

most folks I went ot high school with live in other parts of the country now.

did any of them move to Michiana because they heard it was cool?

[Mark Wein]

did any of them move to Michiana?

absolutely not

[Prages]

I'd much rather live where I do than in OC.

[Mark Wein]

I'd much rather live where I do than in OC.

I'm not so keen on the OC myself these days but its where I'm stuck.

[BoomBoomBigelow]

I built shelving and workbenches for our rental that I moved here when we bought the house but I have a weight bench that never gets used, extra furniture, not one but two lawnmowers and other lawn stuff as well as a ton of other stuff. I'm gradually getting it to the point where we will be able to park at least one car in there.

You have a yard right? That's where the new large gardening shed goes!

[Mark Wein]

You have a yard right? That's where the new large gardening shed goes!

its not that big of a yard

[BoomBoomBigelow]

its not that big of a yard

Well, maybe you should sell at least one of the lawnmowers, then. Just a thought.

[Mark Wein]

Well, maybe you should sell at least one of the lawnmowers, then. Just a thought.

I have to give one back to my father in law. He lent it to me when we moved in and it died so I bought a new one. He wants it back for parts though since he has a second one at his house. I just haven't felt like putting it in the truck.

[Chihlidog]

"Hey, you sound really cute. What are you wearing?"

"Dad, knock it off".

I've come close to doin this a couple times /facepalm

If I'm going to send a naughty text to my wife, I triple check that it is addressed solely to her haha.

[reverend1]

I'd much rather live where I do than in OC.

Very much this.