Monday, February 07, 2011

Help me write this thing!

The other day I created an "about us" page at the top only because I wanted to make a ThatDonkeyGuy page and it looked weird having only one other option up there (hey, I'm being honest here) but judging by the traffic, it seems that readers are actually interested in what that page has to say, and I feel flattered but also bad.  I feel bad that it doesn't really say anything, but I'm not sure how to fix that.  This blog truly is about the ridiculousness and the how-to of doing what we're doing (you know, buying a fixer-upper in Michigan off the internet sight unseen for $27,000) and so rambling on about us personally for any length of time makes me feel a  little contrived and silly.  What are people looking for when they go to that kind of page?
Here's where I could use your help.  Ask me something.  Whatever you think should be on the About Us page, ask in the comment section below.  I'll open up anonymous posting for this so people who don't already have blogger accounts or who would normally be a little embarrassed to post can participate (did you hear that, spammers?  Knock yourselves out!).  It can be something expected (Where did you crazy lovebirds meet?) or something a little less so (Would you rather have hiccups for a year or have to hop on one leg for 16 hours straight?), and I'd even love some questions or suggestions about this house buyin' and fixin' business to inspire future posts.  Thanks in advance to everyone who participates.  It'll be way better this way than if I just wrote the silly thing myself!

10 comments :

  1. i think a little back story on you guys would be nice. You know, like, start off with how you met, when you got married. how many kids you have, or want to have. that sort of thing

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  2. yeah, the road map of decisions that got you here, starting with meeting each other and kids, i would like that! maybe that's too long a story...

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  3. Okay, I started. Just the very beginning, but it's hard work for my brain so I think I'll pause until tomorrow :) I did save it up there, so you can take a gander and let me know what you think.

    And yes, other questions are still welcome!

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  4. what the heck does your husband do for a living?

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  5. Excellent question! Check under his photo in the About Us section for the answer.

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  6. You run social networking accounts? Very cool!

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  7. why didn't you wait until summertime to move to the midwest? might be easier to do the fixing-upping? - Amy P

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  8. We did move in the summer, Amy...we arrived on July 13th. It just takes a whole lotta time and money to do what what we've gotta do since we ain't gots our own HGTV crew or nothin'! :)

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  9. I like what the other comment said about the road map to how you got here. We also live in California and have been wanting to do something similar (i.e. buy some cheap house out in the country and live a simpler life) although maybe not quite such a fixer! Anyways, the hardest part for us is saving the money to follow our dreams. We have 3 kids and I stay at home and so I would love to know how you guys saved 27,000 plus the money to do all the repairs you've done. I feel like no matter how much we cut back we just can't save that kind of money so a road map (tips, advice, ideas, strategies) would be awesome! You seem to have it so together and this blog is making me think that just maybe we can too!

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  10. I'm so glad we can be an inspiration to you! If you want to email me directly, please feel free: houseunseen at gmail dot com . So I think I'll do a post (or posts) about saving the $ and how we chose this location. Then I can link those posts in the About Us section. That'll probably work :)

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