Dooce's house for sale: 9 bed/9 bath, 1.5 mil

[hesitantbride]

Did you see that Dooce's Utah house is for sale, probably because of her divorce?

Here's a link to the listing:

www.utahrealestate.com/report/public.single.report/report/detailed/listno/1104131/scroll_to/1104131

The 9 bathrooms really intrigues me! That and, oh, the 11,126 square feet!

[ijack]

that is a gigantic house!

[hesitantbride]

Jul 16, 2012 16:38:37 GMT -5 @gypsy said:

Dooce is getting divorced?

Can I get a summary?

Last I heard she had two kids and was very happy. I haven't followed her in ages. Who dumped who and why?

What I have been able to discern, I think it was because of the overlap with their working life and their personal life. Her husband became part of her/their business, and that didn't seem to go well. He is now no longer part of the Dooce empire, and he got kicked out of the house.

My new guilty pleasure is getoffmyinternets.net, which is a forum for discussing blogs and bloggers. They have lots of threads on dooce if you would like to read.

[drloretta]

who is this person?

[hesitantbride]

Jul 16, 2012 16:51:25 GMT -5 drloretta said:

who is this person?

Dooce.com

aka Heather Armstrong. A former Mormon in Utah who became one of the first major mommy bloggers and has been/is very open about her mental health struggles. One of the biggest blog earners out there.

[ijack]

Is it just me or does it seem like a lot of mommy bloggers have had issues lately, especially with mental health. Not judging, because I obviously have problems too, it just seems to be a common thread.

[jigsy]

Federal heights is a nice neighborhood. It's no avenues, but it's alright...new money. psht.

And I'm going to amend my comment because, according to Zillow, Federal Heights is considered "greater Avenues" so I suppose it's like the Avenues...but Dooces house is a little close to the University and newish so I thought it wasn't considered in the most up and up of SLC neighborhoods...I guess I atand corrected.

[Deleted]

See you all judge me when I say I want to becomea Mommy blogger. I'm crazy and I like to write. It's win/win. That house is gorgeous.

[seventeen]

It's very white.

The percentage of mommy bloggers who make it big vs those who don't is very, very small. She also has (had?) a show on HGTV.

[tacokick]

That is a lot of house at the price!

[cherry1111]

Maybe 11,000 sqft is big enough for bliss to live in.

[thedutchgirl]

This makes me sad. I keep hoping she and Jon will get back together. It seems unlikely if they are selling the house.

[stephm0188]

It's very underwhelming. I expected more.

[thedutchgirl]

Jul 16, 2012 21:13:43 GMT -5 stephm0188 said:

It's very underwhelming. I expected more.

Yeah I liked their previous house better. It was a great midcentury modern.