bought the house without the wife even looking at it...
I did that once. Her first inkling of what was going on was when I came home and said " Start packing, we're moving ! "
She first saw the property when we pulled in with the first load, about oh-dark-thirty. Didn't even get a good look at it until the next morning. She was pleased with it though. It was a HUGE step up from where we were living, in the 'bad' part of town.