Memorial Day Weekend - Gas Prices & Moving

For Memorial Day Weekend the price of gasoline and diesel shot-up as is typical when the high driving season begins. For those not familiar with the basic economic forces of supply and demand, when demand goes up (i.e. people drive more) and the supply stays the same, the price will go up. Given these high gas prices and the typical hysteria directed at the oil companies, I thought these cartoons were good.


The good news is we did not do much driving this weekend so the high gas prices did not have a huge effect on us. Instead, we moved into our new house this weekend. Yeah! Actually, we have been working on moving over the last month. We closed on the house on April 15th and the items from our house in Illinois were delivered on April 16th. Since we have the lease on the rental house until the end of June, we started the moving process and have been slowly moving stuff from the rental house to the new house. We got to the point where showing the rental house (we have been showing it since March with the hope that it would rent and we could break the lease early and get out of June’s rent, but that did not happen) was a huge pain in the rear-end. So, we decided to take advantage of the long weekend and move even though the kids are not out of school yet. Lori will have to be the bus driver for the next two weeks but she felt that doing that is far easier than dealing with showing the rental house.

In addition to the challenges of moving and two houses in Houston, we still have our house in Illinois. We should be rid of it within the next 7 days (hopefully by the end of the week???) and that will be a huge financial and worry burden lifted. Then we will get rid of the rental house at the end of June and we will be down to one house again. Yeah! We can see the light at the end of the tunnel.


Since we have been working on moving for over a month the final weekend was not as traumatic. I have not been blogging because I have been very busy moving and setting-up the new house. In addition, we have not been doing anything interesting to blog about. Taking pictures of us moving boxes is not very interesting.