Just 8 return trips until I no longer have to make this long drive. 8 more trips until I will be in our house. Our house will be ours. Cutting my commute in half. One more thing to add to my “pros” list! The only con in reality is all this money could be going to student loan debt. BOOOOO! It’s not much different a month than we are paying now in our tiny apt. It’s just the big lump sum we gave away to our builder and lawyer.  It could have made our monthly payments significantly smaller to the devil (aka National Student Loan Service Centre) but we weighed…