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As you all know, I take random stuff way too personally..
I just found out that the couple that bought our old house last summer filed for divorce. We closed on 07/10/2009 and they filed not even a year later - 06/28/2010 (all of this info can be found on the internet). I am not sure why but I feel so sad....I bought the house from a couple that had been married 15 years and they were so happily married (I do believe in bad house karma). Then, DH and I were so happy there...I just feel so sad for my old house. We put a lot of love into that house, renovating it and such...anyway. Boo.
Re: As you all know, I take random stuff way too personally..
I know that you CAN find this stuff online, but why would you be looking up the people who bought your old house on oscn or whatever to find this at all?
Also, if they are divorcing, that doesn't mean that the house is a dump now. I'm sorry if this comes across as rude, but I do not get this, at all.
First off, a check was mailed to us at our old address. We have had issues trying to get in touch with our buyer to get the check. We finally called their realtor and she said they had gotten divorced - I looked it up online to confirm given that for over a month we have been trying to get in touch with them.
Second, I never one time said that the house was a dump. Can you please point out to me where I even insinuated that the house is now a dump?
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Well, honey there are A LOT of weirdos like us out there! Cheers!
I can understand feeling disappointed and sad about that. It would be nice to think that your house is going to be taken care of by a nice, loving couple and knowing that's not the case now, is just disappointing. Maybe not everyone cares who they sell to, but I can understand wanting your house/car/etc going to someone who's going to care for it the way you did. A house in particular is a place where memories are made, and I think it's pretty normal to feel sentimental about stuff like that.
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I don't think my old house has been made into a dump by any means. It just makes me feel sad that at one time there was so much love there and now there isn't.
I haven't driven by there since we moved because I know I will burst into tears. I am just sentimental. It was hard for me to leave that house knowing how many wonderful memories we had in that house - DH proposed to me there, too. I am sad this couple apparently didn't have many wonderful memories there.
I agree with Snowful.
Oh gosh, I didn't mean to imply that your house was a dump. I was just talking about how I feel when I drive past my grandma's house. Sorry.
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I didn't say you called it a dump, but you did imply that it's not being loved and cared for by a current owner the way you did and I don't think that's a fair assumption. Just because they divorced doesn't mean there's no love to be found in the house (I can promise you my home is still very much full of love - even post divorce!) or that the owner isn't still proud of taking care of the home. Does that make sense?
I did not at all imply it is not being taken care of by its current owner or that the owner is not proud of the home.
I do wish the owner would freaking call us back so I can get my damn check!
I was out by my grandparent's old house last week and decided to go by and have a look. It's in the middle of an older, kind of run-down residential neighborhood and I was surprised by how easily I found it. They haven't lived there in 18 or so years. Anyway, it also used to be a small, cute, well-kept house. Now it's just awful. You can't even see the front door for the trees and other overgrowth. I've driven by before, so I was expecting it, but it still kind of made me sad.
If nothing is changing for the house, why be sad FOR it?
I can not drive by the house where I grew up (in Kansas). I went by once - It looks fine - just different - they tore out some landscaping and such - these evergreens my brother and I used to play under. I dissolved into tears and I refuse to go back by there. My parents built that house - and I mean - built it themselves - they did everything themselves - concrete, plumbing, etc etc - and I think of how all the stories they would tell my brother and I about building it and what hard work it was..it makes me so sad to think we don't even live there anymore.
The husband and I are both incredibly sentimental. One of the reasons why we bought a fixer upper is that we liked the idea of fixing it up ourselves and making it a home - our home. We have only lived there a year and a half and have so many incredible memories - even though it has taken me a long time to fall in love with this house....It would be really hard for me to leave all the memories.
GAH. This reminds me. Occasionally I drive by the house my parents had built when I was a newborn, and that I lived in for the first 7 years of my life. At some point in the past few years, the MOTHER EFFERS cut down the willow tree we planted with a cutting from my great-grandfather's garden.
It's just weird to go back and see things differently when in your memories it's a certain way.
Totally understand this. Even though you no longer own it and don't live there, in some way it still is "yours."
When I was in Chicago last month I drove by my grandparent's old house a few times--the one I grew up in and lived in for over half my life between the age of 0 and 18. I look in the windows (from the street as I drive slowly by--not like I'm a peeping tom or something) and see another family in there with their decor and their memories being made. It makes me sad because that house is such a big part of my history, and I'm a nostalgic person at heart... and they're lucky I live in an area that late-blooming peonies don't do well in. Otherwise I'd probably dig up those peony bulbs on the side of the house since they were originally from my great-grandmother's garden.
(I'm kidding... sort of)
Someday we'll sell our current house and it will make me sad too, and I'll drive by someday and be pissed about the way the people are treating the yard or something.
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If my parents ever got rid of their house, I'd be sad. The first house...eh. It was on Fort Sill, and I knew we wouldn't live there forever, so I was fine with it.
I was sad when H had to move out of the house he grew up in...he proposed to me there, we had a lot of family dinners there...it was sad. I can understand feeling sentimental for something like that. It's a part of you, and you just want it to continue to be happy like it was for you.
I totally understand being sad. I drive by our old house sometimes because it is right near my La Leche League meetings and it always makes me sad. The kid who bought it from us was getting married and we just thought they would have great memories in it like we did since H bought the house about a year before we got married.
We totally gutted and remodeled the whole house and it was really sad to leave it, but I was okay knowing that it would be filled with love.
Well, a few years ago, a bounty hunter came to our current house looking for the guy we sold our old house to. Totally creepy. I have no idea what he did (I don't even know where to start searching online although I thought about it), but when I drive by the house now it is a total dump. We looked it up online when we knew they listed it for sale again and I know the inside is a dump too because the pictures were either really odd angles or pictures from when we lived there and we sold it.
I know I will bawl like a baby when we finally finish and sell this house too. This is the house our family was made in and it will be hard to leave.
It's a great cure for boredom! We use it a lot at work, so when I'm bored I just look up random people I know/family members just to pass the time (and so it'll look like I'm doing something work-related hehe). I've found some very interesting stuff about my cousin's boyfriend.
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I found out a few years ago, that my dad's cousin got busted for cooking meth at his house... which come to find out was JUST a block over from where my parents used to live! And we didn't even know they were living that close to them! Much less cooking meth! lol It was creepy, but sad too. Boo meth!
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