# I bought a house! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 27, 2004, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bought-a-house/236807 "2004-03-27T22:32:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Siddhartha\_Vicious](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/919ad9/32.png) [@Siddhartha\_Vicious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siddhartha_Vicious)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2004, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bought-a-house/236807/1 "2004-03-27T22:32:35Z")
I bought a house! It has a pool! It’s our first house! It has a pool! It also has three bedrooms! And a pool! I can’t stop using the exclamation point! I bought a house with a pool! A pool! ---
**Author:** ![Siddhartha\_Vicious](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/919ad9/32.png) [@Siddhartha\_Vicious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siddhartha_Vicious)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2004, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bought-a-house/236807/2 "2004-03-27T22:39:42Z")
A pool! ---
**Author:** ![Blonde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Blonde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blonde)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2004, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bought-a-house/236807/3 "2004-03-28T00:38:30Z")
whoo hoo!! When’s the pool party? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2004, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bought-a-house/236807/4 "2004-03-28T00:41:23Z")
I don’t suppose it has a pool, by any chance? ---
**Author:** ![misstee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/958977/32.png) [@misstee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/misstee)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2004, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bought-a-house/236807/5 "2004-03-28T01:23:38Z")
Now you need one of those cheesy signs that says “Welcome to our ool, you notice thier is no “P” in it.” ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2004, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bought-a-house/236807/6 "2004-03-28T01:47:56Z")
_jumps in pool_ Aaaaaaagh! It’s freakin’ cold in here! And there’s no water! ---
**Author:** ![Sinshine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@Sinshine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sinshine)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2004, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bought-a-house/236807/7 "2004-03-28T23:53:35Z")
Housewarming party at **Siddhartha’s** new place! ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Tonya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/4491bb/32.png) [@Queen\_Tonya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Tonya)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2004, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bought-a-house/236807/8 "2004-03-29T00:32:41Z")
Huzzah! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![sperfur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9adbd/32.png) [@sperfur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sperfur)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2004, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bought-a-house/236807/9 "2004-03-29T01:31:44Z")
Yay! A pool! Congratulations! I’ve always wanted a pool! Buying your first house is so cool! And you got a pool! I’m so happy for you! ---
**Author:** ![Dogface](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9d8465/32.png) [@Dogface](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dogface)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2004, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bought-a-house/236807/10 "2004-03-29T01:53:50Z")
> [@Siddhartha Vicious](#): > > I bought a house! It has a pool! You bought a house, it has a hole that you will learn to loathe after the novelty wears off. ---
**Author:** ![DeadlyAccurate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac91a4/32.png) [@DeadlyAccurate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DeadlyAccurate)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2004, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bought-a-house/236807/11 "2004-03-29T02:16:41Z")
> [@Dogface](#): > > You bought a house, it has a hole that you will learn to loathe after the novelty wears off. Our rule when we went house hunting was, “NO POOL!” Both of us grew up in houses with pools, and they became more of a pain than a pleasure. The only way I’d have a pool now is if I also had a pool service to come by and clean it. ---
**Author:** ![Kitchen\_Wench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f08c70/32.png) [@Kitchen\_Wench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kitchen_Wench)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2004, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bought-a-house/236807/12 "2004-03-29T02:28:35Z")
Congrats! ---
**Author:** ![MoodIndigo1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e8c25b/32.png) [@MoodIndigo1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MoodIndigo1)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2004, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bought-a-house/236807/13 "2004-03-29T05:20:29Z")
Way to go! Congratulations. A pool, huh? \ ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2004, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bought-a-house/236807/14 "2004-03-29T14:15:50Z")
Can I come over and take a swim? My family ended up filling our pool in when us kids grew up. But, we loved it when we were kids and probably did get our money’s worth. But it is a lot of work. AND, we lived in Maine so you could only use it about June 15th - Aug 15th. Good going on the house. Great investment. You realize when you’re 30 that you’ve paid about $50,000 in rent over the last 10 years and that’s just money that’s gone. Goodbye. Kaput. No equity, no tax breaks. Nothing. It’s kind of nice when you finally take that step and look around and think, “I own a great big thing”. ---
**Author:** ![TommyTutone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c4cdca/32.png) [@TommyTutone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TommyTutone)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2004, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bought-a-house/236807/15 "2004-03-29T15:01:19Z")
Wait until you have to clean out your first dead squirrel out of it. Just kidding, congratulations on your big tax-break!!! ---
**Author:** ![Siddhartha\_Vicious](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/919ad9/32.png) [@Siddhartha\_Vicious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siddhartha_Vicious)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2004, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bought-a-house/236807/16 "2004-03-31T03:45:00Z")
Thanks, all! I’ve got a house! And it has a pool, which I doubt that I will become sick of considering that it reaches 120 degrees where I live! ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2004, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bought-a-house/236807/17 "2004-03-31T03:51:08Z")
Congrats! Welcome to the next 30 years of the poorest you’ll ever be. It is known as the Lather, Rinse, Repeat of life. At least you have a pool. ---
**Author:** ![Siddhartha\_Vicious](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/919ad9/32.png) [@Siddhartha\_Vicious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siddhartha_Vicious)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2004, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-bought-a-house/236807/18 "2004-03-31T03:54:45Z")
. . .a pool. . .