Salt for Sale

Maybe I'll feel better if I just get this out. I am extremely sensitive right now and I don't have the "reserves" to blow things off like I might if I could just get out the old vino..I don't know that drinking wine made it any better, I probably just got mouthier, but at least I was relaxed. Sure.
So we had our house on the market, and I really didn't talk about it because the minute your house is on the market and people find out, here's what happens:
1. They look up your house to see how much you're asking.
2. They immediately say, "What?!  They are NEVER going to get that for their house..OUR house..blah blah blah" (Shut up Shut up Shut up)
So I told a few of my close friends, but otherwise I just kept it zipped.
Will and I are not stupid people. We don't work with a moron realtor. We KNEW that our price had to be set at a certain number BECAUSE we couldn't go BELOW a certain number if it came to offers. So if our house was listed at $14.00, YES we know, PROBABLY NOT GOING TO GET THAT, but we also couldn't list it at $3.00 because that wasn't going to help us get into something else.  Would it sell at $3.00?  Absolutely! But that wasn't going to help us when we could only afford to move into a two bedroom apartment.
It would be nice to say:
1. We had a ton of money set aside for a down payment.
2. Our parents or some other relative had bought, willed, or borrowed us land, money, a house.
Neither of these was our reality.
So we had our house on the market for about two months before this whole preterm labor thing happened.
We had a total of 6 maybe 7 showings? And it was getting stressful because clients wanted to look at the house right at dinner time, nap time, bath time...it was just getting ridiculous to pack up when it wasn't convenient for us and drive around for 30 minutes while Maren cried, "I want to go home."   We would return to find NO realtor's cards and receive NO feedback. So I got to the point where I was wondering if someone was just jacking with us and no one was even showing up!
Do I have those kinds of enemies? See, I was even starting to get paranoid.
Ok so tonight my neighbor stopped by, no NOT Ernesto, he doesn't know where our front door is, but another neighbor who really LIKES being the dude in the neighborhood who knows EVERYTHING about EVERYONE.  Look, I am a window watcher, I'll give you that, but this guy is "in your face". At least I don't tell anyone what I know..except you and Will..really.  Pretty much.
Okay so he stopped by because he had heard I was on bed rest and he wanted to urge me not to run anymore. Yes, thank you. I can barely walk to the bathroom without feeling like my pelvic floor is going to hit the tile, but I appreciate the fact that you think I might still be trying to get in my nightly jog.
Salty. I know. I am salty right now.
Anyway, he noticed we didn't have our For Sale sign up anymore and he just wanted to mention that the people around the block WERE selling their house now and their realtor had been through OUR house and boy did he have a reason why it hadn't sold yet.
Are you ready?
Drum roll please.
"AND THE REASON THAT WILL AND MELISSA'S HOUSE WON'T SELL IS BECAUSE OF THE BLACK TRIM IN THE BASEMENT."
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do you hear the crickets?  do you HEAR THEM?
What black trim? BLACK trim? Like black wood trim? In our basement?
We don't have any. We don't have any black tr-
Wait a minute.
Black FRAMES?
Black frames on our wall going down to the basement?  Is that what he meant?
Are you going to tell me that our house didn't sell because we had BLACK picture frames on the wall?
Have I lost my mind here? Is this what he meant?
Did someone actually think that if they put an offer on our house we were going to insist that they keep our FAMILY PICTURES??
Am I in Stupidville???????
Make us an offer and all our family pictures are YOURS to KEEP!  Complete with frames!
I just about came uncorked right there in my living room.  I ALMOST felt sorry for my neighbor because you could tell he was wishing he had kept his "know everything in the neighborhood" mouth closed.
And just a minute. Where was this realtor's card?  And his feedback to us about the black frames??  Shouldn't we KNOW this?  I mean how hard would it be to take the black frames down?  Why should my Nosy Neighbor know this information and not us?
So I have been stewing about this for about 3 hours.  And I KNOW this is not a big deal, but I am still beside myself.  Clearly, my tolerance for bull shit is is low right now.  Clearly.
Add to the fact that the people around the corner are selling their house for $3.00  (OF COURSE!!!!) and moving to the country where his parents have "LAND"...and they can build their own house...
My dad has land to, it just happens to be in PANAMA.  It's not real conducive for us to build right now IN PANAMA!!!
Okay so I will move on now, and stop harping on something that really does not matter. I KNOW it doesn't matter, but sometimes we can't control what pisses us off. And sometimes getting pissed off about something that doesn't matter is really just an excuse to be pissed off because there are other BIGGER things that might just be too much to think about.
 Besides, now it's out there that you could buy our house and get some great pictures too!
I feel better now. Honestly.