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I would like HH more, if they showed the transformation of the house after purchase. I'd love to see how they go about creating some of those images. Property Virgins is a good one too!
I'm a big fan of Property Ladder. Where they folow the families moving into their new homes, and have them come back to "evaluate" what the new owners have done to their old home.
Also, I like Flip This House, but C won't watch with me unless it's the follow up show where they tell you if the house even sold and for how much. I'm starting to agree that it's not as fun if you don't know that the work paid off.
Surprisingly, I find myself watching active people do active things on tv, while I spend my Saturday planted on the couch.
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Date: 3/12/2009 2:21:36 PM
Author: meresal
I would like HH more, if they showed the transformation of the house after purchase. I''d love to see how they go about creating some of those images. Property Virgins is a good one too!
I''m a big fan of Property Ladder. Where they folow the families moving into their new homes, and have them come back to ''evaluate'' what the new owners have done to their old home.
Also, I like Flip This House, but C won''t watch with me unless it''s the follow up show where they tell you if the house even sold and for how much. I''m starting to agree that it''s not as fun if you don''t know that the work paid off.
Surprisingly, I find myself watching active people do active things on tv, while I spend my Saturday planted on the couch.
LOL, Meresal. Too true.
ITA HH Int''l is surprisingly dull; perhaps part of the issue is that it so often appears to feature people moving to a new country or buying a second home and starting from scratch from a clean slate. On the main HH, it always amuses me to see, time and time again, a couple of middle-class people walking into $800,000 homes with glorious views and dumping all over the listing because their five year old, battered-looking, overstuffed reclining sofa which they bought for $800 won''t fit in, or they hate that it has a built-in outdoor BBQ because they already own that BBQ they bought at Lowe''s last summer. Is that just schadenfreude? Could it be that part of what makes the original House Hunters so interesting to watch is to see people being "penny wise and pound foolish", or wanting to shout at the TV and the TV when the people make an unwise decision that we could apparently so obviously do better?
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haha! You are hilarious. Oh, I SO hear what you are saying!!!Date: 3/12/2009 2:57:58 PM
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LOL, Meresal. Too true.
ITA HH Int''l is surprisingly dull; perhaps part of the issue is that it so often appears to feature people moving to a new country or buying a second home and starting from scratch from a clean slate. On the main HH, it always amuses me to see, time and time again, a couple of middle-class people walking into $800,000 homes with glorious views and dumping all over the listing because their five year old, battered-looking, overstuffed reclining sofa which they bought for $800 won''t fit in, or they hate that it has a built-in outdoor BBQ because they already own that BBQ they bought at Lowe''s last summer. Is that just schadenfreude? Could it be that part of what makes the original House Hunters so interesting to watch is to see people being ''penny wise and pound foolish'', or wanting to shout at the TV and the TV when the people make an unwise decision that we could apparently so obviously do better?
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Yeah? I'm the type that doesn't like to watch the 'lets get this place the way we like it/paint/redo the kitchen/sell the house' type shows. Guess I like watching the buying process and telling them what a mistake they are making by buying THAT house over THIS house...haha!Date: 3/12/2009 2:21:36 PM
Author: meresal
I would like HH more, if they showed the transformation of the house after purchase. I'd love to see how they go about creating some of those images. Property Virgins is a good one too!
I'm a big fan of Property Ladder. Where they folow the families moving into their new homes, and have them come back to 'evaluate' what the new owners have done to their old home.
Also, I like Flip This House, but C won't watch with me unless it's the follow up show where they tell you if the house even sold and for how much. I'm starting to agree that it's not as fun if you don't know that the work paid off.
Surprisingly, I find myself watching active people do active things on tv, while I spend my Saturday planted on the couch.
Maybe I'm like that because after FF bought his condo, we spent so much time (and years) fixing it up, painting and remodeling the bathroom that we just hate that kind of stuff now. lol! And on top of that, it was always a gorgeous condo to begin with. We are just fussy people..lol
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Throw a rock at her head!!!Date: 3/12/2009 3:02:35 PM
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My neighbor is out on her patio (which is one floor up, but directly faces mine) YELLING at her dog. Like serious scolding action. It's been going on for way too long. I don't like it.
Poor pup
Eh, sorry. . .
I took a bunch of pictures for a school event this morning and they all turned out blurry! I'm so pissed off! Or, I'm bummed. Even though there will be a billion school events to document, seems like the day it happens, it's super important.
Bleh. . .plus, my DH never called in the Ambien RX.
Oh, yeah, and the taxes still. Plus the job hasn't called back.
I have NO idea if I will have a job that someone has set up for me and am going to have to sit here for TWO months waiting!!!
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I LOVE House Hunter''s International, especially when they are HH''g in Europe!! I LOVE to see the houses in the French countryside. I don''t see it often, but in a fairly recent episode, a guy from Boston was moving to France. He was fairly young, but had retired from a government job and decided to up and move to France. How awesome is that? I just love to see how the houses are so different from here. I also love to see Americans critiquing the houses for not having American-style (i.e., huge) bathrooms. Too funny!!
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Date: 3/12/2009 1:53:15 PM
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I''ll admit it''s big reason why I''m not a fan of hers.
LOL Ebree
Hey, don''t know if you''ve ever seen it, but I''ve mentioned a celeb crush that lives a block from me... *ahem*ahem*
Weird. I totally went to college with him. He must have not been that cool, though, cause my school wasn''t all that big and I knew a lot of people, but don''t remember him at all...kind of sad!
I''m not sure I''m thinking of the same person as you ladies, but I thought he went to Harvard??
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Date: 3/12/2009 2:21:36 PM
Author: meresal
I would like HH more, if they showed the transformation of the house after purchase. I''d love to see how they go about creating some of those images. Property Virgins is a good one too!
I''m a big fan of Property Ladder. Where they folow the families moving into their new homes, and have them come back to ''evaluate'' what the new owners have done to their old home.
Also, I like Flip This House, but C won''t watch with me unless it''s the follow up show where they tell you if the house even sold and for how much. I''m starting to agree that it''s not as fun if you don''t know that the work paid off.
Surprisingly, I find myself watching active people do active things on tv, while I spend my Saturday planted on the couch.
Have you seen "Moving UP"? It''s big on transformations/before and after stories.
I don''t like HH International because the houses are all UGLY!!
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