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In which Meg becomes a homeowner

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HEY APW,

So. This week… I bought a house. Or more specifically, we bought a house. And it turns out signing the papers to buy your first house feels a lot like getting married all over again. It’s just (way) more expensive, and you don’t get a dance party afterwards.

A month ago, we were a hundred percent not in the market for a house, and then on Tuesday we became homeowners. When I can wrap my head around what happened and how massively I managed to shift my feeling about money this year, I’d like to write a little about it. But in short: we saw a house, it was the one, we wrote an impassioned letter, we got the house without being the highest bid, and had a twenty-one-day close. And just like that, lickety split, we became homeowners. We have a few weeks till we move into the house that we hope our kids will grow up in and make East Oakland our home. I can’t wait to document all the projects we have in store, but for now… I’m just enjoying the seemingly impossible happening.

I’m thirty-six years old, I have two kids, and I own a house. I can get down with that.

xo

Meg

And PS: I’m listening to Kanye’s new album on repeat on Spotify, because it is so goddamn good.

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