Another Day Older And Deeper In Debt: We bought the house! We bought the house! Friday, October 1, a day that will live in infamy: we settled on the house today. It involved signing our names enough times to develop carpal tunnel syndrome, and handing over big fat checks. After all that, my husband had to run over to the office, so I wandered around our new empty home thinking two things. First, "This is ours. We own this. We just made a down payment bigger than our parents' mortgages were, and we own a friggin' house." Second, "Wow, I'll bet the joint will never be this clean again."