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I am so struggling and I'm hoping for some advice here.
I'm feeling very overwhelmed with making decisions about whether to get our home inspected for mold.
I know that may sound dumb, but honestly this has been such a hard, hard year. Deaths of family and friends, Covid and non-Covid related, and just a whole host of other issues. DH retired and it hasn't been a first year retirement nirvana we'd planned on. I'm finding it hard to make myself do things and this is one of those things I don't really want to deal with.
That said, we are in that waiting period where we're weighing whether to stay put or move. We feel stuck in some ways, waiting for our dog to die (doesn't that sound crazy? But she is old and sick and we can't travel easily and with Covid we aren't really wanting to anyway.) If we stay, our home needs some attention. We've been so busy these past few years and we have put off doing things like redoing the hardwoods (will wait until our old dog passes on until we do that), replacing the driveway, replacing the windows, landscaping, etc. I'd like to bite the bullet and do those things now, so we can be enjoying them but i'm concerned we may have mold issues. The house just smells musty, esp in the bathrooms (it's a 1940 house). Logic says that the smart thing to do is to get a mold inspection done and deal with it. My overwhelmed and fear based brain at the moment is saying "oh gosh, no, not one more thing!" The thing is, I feel like we've been sitting on this for a long while now and I have just been too afraid to know if there's a problem. (I have a friend that had mold problems years ago and it was about a $150K problem). And now that we're even questioning if we want to stay in the house or not, I'm not sure I want to even know.
I am literally immobilized, losing sleep over it, etc.
Has anyone else had this issue? Can you lend me your rational brain and help me get some perspective on this?
I'm feeling very overwhelmed with making decisions about whether to get our home inspected for mold.
I know that may sound dumb, but honestly this has been such a hard, hard year. Deaths of family and friends, Covid and non-Covid related, and just a whole host of other issues. DH retired and it hasn't been a first year retirement nirvana we'd planned on. I'm finding it hard to make myself do things and this is one of those things I don't really want to deal with.
That said, we are in that waiting period where we're weighing whether to stay put or move. We feel stuck in some ways, waiting for our dog to die (doesn't that sound crazy? But she is old and sick and we can't travel easily and with Covid we aren't really wanting to anyway.) If we stay, our home needs some attention. We've been so busy these past few years and we have put off doing things like redoing the hardwoods (will wait until our old dog passes on until we do that), replacing the driveway, replacing the windows, landscaping, etc. I'd like to bite the bullet and do those things now, so we can be enjoying them but i'm concerned we may have mold issues. The house just smells musty, esp in the bathrooms (it's a 1940 house). Logic says that the smart thing to do is to get a mold inspection done and deal with it. My overwhelmed and fear based brain at the moment is saying "oh gosh, no, not one more thing!" The thing is, I feel like we've been sitting on this for a long while now and I have just been too afraid to know if there's a problem. (I have a friend that had mold problems years ago and it was about a $150K problem). And now that we're even questioning if we want to stay in the house or not, I'm not sure I want to even know.
I am literally immobilized, losing sleep over it, etc.
Has anyone else had this issue? Can you lend me your rational brain and help me get some perspective on this?