Carpet

Since being married, I have lived in 4 rentals. They have ranged from a teeny apartment to a full size house. In all places I have refused to invest anything into them, meaning I will not buy or replace fixtures or install anything that is permanent. I just won't do it, it's not my place so it doesn't make sense for me to put any money into it if I can't take it with me. However, in our current residence I have sort of broken, or bent, that rule.

The house we are renting is about twenty years old and the carpet isn't any younger. I can only imagine the numbers of families that have lived here and tracked who knows what all over the floors. Then there is our landlord who seems to keep a tight reign on his cash flow and will spend as little as possible whenever he can get away with it, so it's no surprise that the carpet is original to the house. And after two years of living here I couldn't take the nastiness of the carpet any longer so past weekend we rented one of those carpet cleaning machines from the grocery store and went to work on the heavy traffic areas in the house (when I say 'we' I really mean Ryan - and he did a great job!).

Overall, the carpet looks better and I am very pleased with how the carpet now looks. I don't mind one bit that we bent our rental rule, not one bitty bit. Now my only hope is that we won't be here when the carpet needs its next round of cleaning.....that bill belongs to the landlord.