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	<title>The Money Pit</title>
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		<title>The wa-a-a-ai-ting is the hardest part.</title>
		<link>http://www.columbusandthevalley.com/themoneypit/?p=319</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2012 20:20:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Callie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tom Petty sang it best. I think he was singing about waiting to see his lover again, but his observation also aptly applies to real estate. The waiting is not only the hardest part of selling a house, it’s pretty much the ONLY part. You stick a sign in the yard and wait for a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Muscular DIYstrophy</title>
		<link>http://www.columbusandthevalley.com/themoneypit/?p=312</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 20:41:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Callie</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[home improvement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[injury]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So I wake up yesterday morning, and when I lift my arms, especially the left one, I have this weird muscle pain near the top of my rib cage under my arms. As the day progresses, I feel worsening pain every time I move my arms—we’re not talking Olympian feats of physicality here, I just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2012 at The Pit</title>
		<link>http://www.columbusandthevalley.com/themoneypit/?p=287</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 20:37:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Callie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[DIY]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[friends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[home improvement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[restoration]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[NYE looms large in the legend of The Money Pit. Rush signed papers at the closing to buy the house on the eve of 2010. Later that night a small handful of close friends, clad in parkas, gloves and scarves, bravely gathered for a brief toast, our breath hanging visible in the den’s frigid air [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You might be a DIYer if …</title>
		<link>http://www.columbusandthevalley.com/themoneypit/?p=283</link>
		<comments>http://www.columbusandthevalley.com/themoneypit/?p=283#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 15:35:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Callie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[DIY]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[home decorating]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[home improvement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jeff Foxworthy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kitchen countertops]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[renovation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[restoration]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We Southerners are quite familiar with the Jeff Foxworthy skit “You might be a redneck if …&#8221; My favorite answer is: &#8220;you stared hard at an orange juice can because it said &#8216;concentrate&#8217;.&#8221; I decided to put my own twist on Foxworthy&#8217;s idea. By the way, folks, this isn’t comedy. This is my reality. You [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Closets, banshees, and AC death</title>
		<link>http://www.columbusandthevalley.com/themoneypit/?p=279</link>
		<comments>http://www.columbusandthevalley.com/themoneypit/?p=279#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2011 20:42:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Callie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[DIY]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cat]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cat door]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[closets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[demolition]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[home improvement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HVAC]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[real estate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[renovation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Rush is back in the closet. The den was once the master bedroom with two cedar-lined closets. A former owner removed the door from one closet and added a cabinet to make a bar—very cool for a den, but unfortunately, above it resides an access panel to the attic. Insulation and bits of ick continually [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DIY Design to Sell</title>
		<link>http://www.columbusandthevalley.com/themoneypit/?p=275</link>
		<comments>http://www.columbusandthevalley.com/themoneypit/?p=275#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 19:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Callie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[DIY]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Clive Pearse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Design to Sell]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Donna Freeman]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[home improvement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Innovative Marble & Granite]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kitchen countertops]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lisa Laporta]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[real estate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[real estate market]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you’ve read very many of my posts, you know that I’m a bit of an HGTV and DIY Network junkie. When I first fixed up my house to ready it for sale—you know, exactly one day after the housing market crashed in 2007—I dutifully followed the sage advice of the HGTV Design to Sell [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hostages, Secrets, and Deities</title>
		<link>http://www.columbusandthevalley.com/themoneypit/?p=271</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 18:43:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Callie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[DIY]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Karma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[moving]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[real estate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[real estate market]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[staging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Secret]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Help! I’m being held hostage! Beware, the culprit is a charmer, standing one and a half stories tall and 1760 square feet. It’s my old house, which has been on and off the market for the past year. Houses in our area are finally starting to move, and we’ve had plenty of traffic and interest, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hoarders: DIY Edition</title>
		<link>http://www.columbusandthevalley.com/themoneypit/?p=265</link>
		<comments>http://www.columbusandthevalley.com/themoneypit/?p=265#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 19:25:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Callie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[DIY]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hoarders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mess]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[restoration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[storage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tools]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When Rush and I first started dating, he repeatedly offered to help my friends and me with projects around our houses. He ALWAYS had the right tools and supplies, and they always came from the same place—his shed. No matter what you needed, the shed had it, thus earning it the honorary moniker, The Magic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome to Melmac</title>
		<link>http://www.columbusandthevalley.com/themoneypit/?p=243</link>
		<comments>http://www.columbusandthevalley.com/themoneypit/?p=243#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 18:30:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Callie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[DIY]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alf]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dining room]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[home decorating]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[home improvement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Melmac]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[refinishing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[renovation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[restoration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[solid wood paneling]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yet another tedious, time-sucking, carpal-tunnel-inducing task marked off the list!! Tuesday night I finished ALL the sanding in the dining room. By the time I finished, I looked like Pig Pen, replete with my own dust cloud that followed me around from room to room, despite my best efforts to hermetically seal the project off [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DIY Gone Harlequin Romance</title>
		<link>http://www.columbusandthevalley.com/themoneypit/?p=236</link>
		<comments>http://www.columbusandthevalley.com/themoneypit/?p=236#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 19:42:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Callie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[DIY]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[home decorating]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[home improvement]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ah …  D.P. &#8230; so we meet again … Once more you come storming into my life, monopolize my time, rob me of my senses, ravage my body and ruthlessly leave me weak, weepy and exhausted. Why do I let you do this to me, D.P.? It’s always the same with you. I know you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On with the new!</title>
		<link>http://www.columbusandthevalley.com/themoneypit/?p=225</link>
		<comments>http://www.columbusandthevalley.com/themoneypit/?p=225#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 19:50:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Callie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[DIY]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hot tub]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[moving]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I wrote a post several months ago about the requisite endings that precede the beginnings of a newly renovated home, as well as a few endings that were unique to my situation. I looked forward to getting past all the endings and imagined a day when I would be sitting on our couch, settled in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Thousand Words</title>
		<link>http://www.columbusandthevalley.com/themoneypit/?p=207</link>
		<comments>http://www.columbusandthevalley.com/themoneypit/?p=207#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 00:51:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Callie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[DIY]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[WE LIVE AT THE MONEY PIT!! Do you know how glorious it is to type those words??? Every day we wake, shower, cook, eat and sleep at The Money Pit. Life has been so hectic lately and the move has happened so gradually, it’s almost gone unnoticed. No moving truck, very few boxes, no sudden [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It’s at the Other House!</title>
		<link>http://www.columbusandthevalley.com/themoneypit/?p=202</link>
		<comments>http://www.columbusandthevalley.com/themoneypit/?p=202#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 21:13:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Callie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[DIY]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[moving]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[NOTHING is where I need it to be. Getting dressed, cooking, washing dishes, taking a shower, opening wine … every mundane activity has become worthy of a Survivor challenge because something germane to every task is always at the OTHER house. Doesn’t matter which house I’m in at the time—mine or The Money Pit—something I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A DIY Christmas Story</title>
		<link>http://www.columbusandthevalley.com/themoneypit/?p=199</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2011 21:09:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Callie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[DIY]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[art deco]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bathroom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[home decorating]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[home improvement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[light fixtures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[master bath]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[renovation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[restoration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sconces]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[thank you]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I know. It’s several days into 2011 and you’re ready to put the holidays in the rear view mirror, but please indulge me by reading one last Christmas story. I’ve mentioned before that Rush bargain hunts on Craig’s list constantly. We’ve acquired a couple sinks, a lamp and several odds and ends that way—all great [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Party at the Pit</title>
		<link>http://www.columbusandthevalley.com/themoneypit/?p=197</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Dec 2010 19:41:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Callie</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[DIY]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[home decorating]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[home improvement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[renovation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[restoration]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last New Year’s Eve, we assembled a handful of close friends, stood in the freezing cold den, and gleefully toasted to the next year when we would come together again to party in a heated, fully restored and decorated space. HA! Well, next year is here, and when we attempt to host a NYE party at [...]]]></description>
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