Something about flooring

I started this post over the weekend and never finished. I think it was about how expensive the carpet was turning out to be? Or how excited I was about waxing the linoleum but then realized the carpet tack strips destroyed all the edge tiles? Or maybe the wood flooring and how it's scheduled for next week so I will spend this weekend pulling staples? One of those.

Making a house that was unlivable into one that is, is a daunting task. Every kind of specialist has paraded in and out to look at things and tell me how many thousands of dollars it will cost to fix them. And everything seems to cost either $750, $4000, or $8000. Or more. There are lots of "mores". And all of it without the roof still.

Plumber - 750 (and crap, he left before I discovered one of our toilets is a "rocking toilet" and one of our showers is a drip system)
Water Heater - 750 (and worth every penny)
Heater/AV/Air Filter - 4k (and worth every penny AND has mail-in rebates. Cha-CHING)
Carpet - 8K (Still in negotiations... determined to lower this to the next rung)
Roof - 8K-9K (cheating by jumping price-points)
Hard Wood Floors - $4k
Drape cleaning - 750 (seriously?! AND he said i will not be happy with the way they come out, so i should just buy new. cost of new? $1250)

Things yet un-accounted for:
- painting
- new front door (the old one has 2 holes cut in it, damn it)
- new locks (the selling realtor joked that he made a spare key for himself when i was shocked there was only one key. when i asked for it, he said he was kidding. really? only one key? someone else has a key...)
- door nob on basement
- window repair (a few b-b holes upstairs. damn kids. get off my lawn)
- chimney cleaning
- deadwood tree trimming
- carport repair

Shrug. All in good time. But I don't want to move twice, so flooring is high on my list. There with roof, although that's harder to schedule.

Meanwhile, I saw this Statue of a Male in the thrift shop.

No one I know.