So, naturally when a complicated scenario (e.g. buying a house) arises, we visit the bookstore. My dad suggested I buy a book no less than 4 times and offered no less than 2 suggestions.
I bought two books.
The first book was pretty easy to find since there aren't really all that many books in Lowe's. Literacy, in the conventional sense, is not as necessary as you would think.
The second book, bought from a Barnes and Noble, took infinitely more time. Not because I got distracted, as likely as that sounds, but because their organization pales in comparison to Lowe's. And I even had a friend to help me scour the shelves for our desired prey.
Odd, I know. But consider the fact that House Buying Guides were not in the Home Reference section. Nope.
Nor were there any Dummy's Guides to Home Purchases in the self-improvement section.
So we got creative.
Personal Finance. Obviously...not?
Wedding? Because a house is what comes next?
Children's! Because you need a house to contain them!
Teen Paranormal. Because paranormal teenage events shall take place there.
Mystery. Because buying a house is an entirely too mysterious process. And so is, apparently, finding a book about it.
Finally we found it. My friend asked and the guy sent us back to the Personal Finance section. Except that they weren't on that shelf. They were two shelves over. Here:
As I was saying, Lowe's has a leg up on this whole organization thing.
/facepalm
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