For Better or For Worse by Lynn Johnston for August 13, 2014

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    ORMouseworks  over 10 years ago

    Yes, unfortunately, Lawrence. This is what happens when your house is up for sale…it is artificially clean and neat with almost no presence of the owner’s day-to-day life… ;)

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    rshive  over 10 years ago

    Always wondered why, when a house is being sold, it has to look like nobody’s ever lived there.

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    puddleglum1066  over 10 years ago

    One of the great rituals is carefully cleaning and re-painting and replacing “broken” fixtures that you’ve been living comfortably with for years, so that the new owners can immediately re-paint in a different color and replace the fixtures with the style they prefer. Without this activity, the economy would grind to a halt.

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    felinefan55 Premium Member over 10 years ago

    Just curious, but do we know anything about Lawrence’s father?

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    Thomas Scott Roberts creator over 10 years ago

    COnnie was a redhead last week. DId she bleach her hair just to help sell the house?

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    mourdac Premium Member over 10 years ago

    An agent told me the best thing was when the owners moved out completely before the sale. Would be nice if I ever could have afforded it.

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    Can't Sleep  over 10 years ago

    Yep, you got that right. Lawrence,My wife used to watch home sale shows on HGTV. Obnoxious realtors would come in and make rude comments about the people who live there, their belongings, and the state of the house. Then the place would be emptied, and some contractor would come in and do a quick, cheap fix to whatever needed it the most (making me wonder how soon after the sale it would fall apart).Then the realtor would fill it with rented furniture, and sell it to some sucker.

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    masnadies  over 10 years ago

    I hate the whole process. We did get to move out of our last house before we sold, which is good since we had a 4, 2 and almost-1 year old at home at the time. We lucked out though. The buyer wanted a new roof (not cheap) and then a hail storm came in and we got it on insurance, and got the kind the buyer wanted. But it is disconcerting to adults, and I’d bet really upsetting to kids!

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    nickel_penny   over 10 years ago

    Let a bunch of strangers roam around my house unsupervised? HA! Not gonna happen.

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    vldazzle  over 10 years ago

    As I’ve been showing my house for the last month, I KNOW what a pain it is to keep everything stowed away while I try to keep any personal schedule. At the time the realtor took the photos (on MLS and Zillow) I did not have as much put away as I do now.

    I’m trying to thin out some things so I’ll have less to move too, but I’m looking at about the same 2000 SF (but fewer rooms). I want a kitchen similar to what I have (see Argyle Sweater) but I’ll remodel to have no more than 2 BRs.

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    felinefan55 Premium Member over 10 years ago

    howtheduck

    Thank you for posting those strips. If I am reading the copyright date correctly I was living in Germany at the time. I’m pretty sure we got FBOFW in The Stars & Stripes. I don’t have the memory of it. Of course at that time I was a new mom, so I probably have forgotten many things from that era! lol

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