Do you have Remorse??

Douglas Hedding from TrueGotham blogs about buyers remorse and while I was reading his article - I could not help remembering how I felt when I bought my first house.  (see previous post)....

The day of our walk through.  Remember that my husband only saw OUR house once... I saw it twice, so both of our memories were a bit off.  I remember telling my husband the day I "bought" our house that the "home does not need alot of work - this is exactly what we were looking for".  (ahem).. well, seeing a home WITH furniture is alot different than a home WITHOUT furniture.  The walls are dirty, the floors seem faded, the cracks are more apparent and the home appears smaller - alot smaller. 

The day of our walk through, we brought EVERYONE with us.  My mother and father in law, my two kids, my sister in law, niece, nephew, best friend his wife and my husband and I all walked through our house.  I remember standing at one point in the dining room while all my guests walked past me to go into the kitchen, at this moment - I felt my floor shake.  Not just small shake - Like SHAKE SHAKE!.. I almost died.  WHAT DID I DO???  How did I do this to us?  Oh my God - did I really think this through?  The floors need to be ripped up, the walls need to be knocked down, the basement needs to just be gutted, I need new windows - the kitchen is horrible, the bathroom is ancient, the concrete needs to be redone.  OH - OH .. I think I had an out of body experience at this point. My husband and my mother in law looked at me - I just cried. 

As we walked back home - all my husband asked me was "are you OK?"  I could not answer.  I don't know.  Am I OK?  NO - NO - I am NOT OK - I just bought the worst house ever..   Again he would ask - "are you OK?" - I think my response was something like "Leave me alone - please.. stop asking me.  We are pregnant now -- I have to buy this freaking house.  I am NOT OK - I wont be OK - So stop asking me!!

Needless to say - we closed and I survived with only a few heated fights with my husband - I won, of course...  and once we moved in and I made my house my "HOME", the buyer remorse disapated and we are still very happy in our modest home.

Anyone else ever have the dreaded Buyers Remorse?