How can it be that I come home from caroling in the neighborhood needing a valium and feeling like Scrooge?

How hard can it be to control your own children? If everyone did that, we would not have children running from house to house, like on Halloween, and singing before the good 4 yr old singers get to the house. UGH

I also came home a bit ticked, LOL. Our neighborhood is quite large and has 3 different style homes. I have gotten to the point where I hate to see what the inside of other houses look like. Pretty colors...remodeled rooms...additions, etc....

We bought this house 8 years ago, and the only way to make it to our liking is to demolish the inside and start anew.....They didn't prime any of the walls where they just painted on the sheetrock, so we have many areas peeling...and one little peel leads to a WHOLE BIG AREA if you just touch it. The other areas are all textured......walls, ceilings, hallways...... White paint all over...... The other area is olive green paneling. I think this is gonna be my new mission.....to try and figure out how we can accomplish this.