*Sigh*

I feel like a character in some horrible TV show. I have budget sheets (like this one from Thrifty Little Blog), credit card bills, and lists of expenses spread across the table–and if it were a bad TV show then you would be able to see the cartoon numbers floating around above my head. If we needed a 20% down payment and I’m saving X amount each month then I would reach that number in…wait, almost four years? Why are houses so expensive?

So, what sparked this frantic urge to save? We’ve been talking about buying a house for awhile now but we’re so far away from it that it seemed unnecessary to start an actual fund. That is, until I found the perfect house. Well, almost perfect. It’s too big, it’s in a city that Peter and I would probably never move to, and the price is a little high but everything it stands for is perfect. Here’s a little peak:

It’s just SO beautiful. This may not be our house but our dream house is really kicking us in the butts to start that house fund (which I’m happy to say that I did–right between pining over this house and pining over it some more).

Images courtesy of Realtor.com