The sub-topic is long past, but you might try what I did to undermine my wife’s home-buying urges: we planted a garden. With 500 sq ft of fruits, veggies, and antique varietals (giant bush of the white rose of York), our rented house is a lot more homey, and my wife is making noises about how sad she’ll be to leave the berry brambles and artichokes and strawberries and roses and veggie boxes behind, and maybe we could stay a bit longer… Not sure what the neighbors think of our vegetative front yard, though 🙂
