Comments on: A Conversation with HGTV

By: Barbara Albritton

Barbara Albritton — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:46:10 +0000

Annie, Mother was always going on real estate rides with your dad and sometimes with me. She was fanatical about looking at floor plans and dissecting them to see if theywere “functional”. Remember the 18″ door in the house in Bartlesville – she had that put in so the boys (or anyone else)wouldn’t have to go through the living room all the time. She also completely designed the addition to the house – the part back west from the utility room. Her main focus was storage – there was actually a drawer for empty plastic medicine bottles! In your search for future homes – storage is an important key. The other thing Mother always said was “don’t buy a house that sits below the level of the street”. I’ll add one more don’t buy a house on the downhill side of the cul-de-sac – I’ve planted the garden three times so far this year. Just thought I’d give you some things for the “things to look for in a house” list – if one already isn’t in progress, I have every confidence there will be one. As a matter of fact, that was one of my favorite pictures in the non-people portion of the wedding photographs was the picture of the list indicating that Greg needed to bring Ryan! Priceless!

By: Nikki

Nikki — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:54:11 +0000

For the first time ever my husband and I have no TV. We can’t pat ourselves on the back, though, not with the copious amounts of time we spend online and watching instant movies and TV series via NetFlix. So much for good intentions.

By: Megs

Megs — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:22:32 +0000

I’m sorry I started this addiction! Please forgive me! I had no idea it would be so detrimental. Do I need to reimburse you for the counseling fees? You could switch over to Discover channel like James does and get hooked on Deadliest Catch or Man vs. Wild. If anything can help you feel better about having a nice, warm place to live (whether rented or purchased), it would be those 2 shows. Love you! (Great post by the way–laughed out loud at my desk this morning)

By: Danyiel

Danyiel — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:20:25 +0000

Ok so when we moved we were without cable for two weeks…..and when we finally got cable you can guess what I turned on…..my husband called it my porn. I love HGTV, but am trying to find a support group so that I can turn it off…any one know where I can find that?

By: anne

anne — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:10:06 +0000

Seriously….why are all these shows Canadian??

By: Gale Patterson

Gale Patterson — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:57:22 +0000

Terrific post. I’d offer my advice, but you seem to have found the essence of your addiction. As for ways to part with HGTV, well, the new season of Project Runway starts next month!

By: ABF

ABF — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:35:47 +0000

In the illustrious words of Larry the Cable Guy: “I don’t care who you are. That’s funny!”

I too was lured into the television black hole that is HGTV. For many nights after eight o’clock we stayed glued to the channel wondering the same things you did. Will they pick house number one or house number two? My wife was (and unfortunately still is) addicted to the staging shows that, I swear, all must come out of Vancouver. I watched the shows so I could laugh every time they said “aboooot”. We also watched the same house hunting shows that you speak of. When we were looking for new home we spent hours watch those shows. Thinking that we were attaining valuable information, we became HGTV zombies. We even watched the staging shows to try to sell our house faster. But I have to tell you. After we spent all of our energy watching that waist of a boob tube we learned a couple of things.

One- There is more useful information on the childrens television network Sprout than on any cable network out there.

Two- Staging is the dumbest and most pointless job I have ever seen. It’s for people who wanted to be interior designers but couldn’t hack it.

Three- From the words of a great real-estate agent I met. “There are only two reasons why a house does not sell. Either it’s priced too high or it’s Ugly.” (Ain’t that the truth.)

Four- Once you find a new home of your own and you are truly happy with it. Those other shows become really boring (but I still like making fun of those Canadians).