to think it very weird that elderly parents

[IrishGal21]

still refer to adult child's room by name of child when referring to that room even after they have left 20 or more years earlier???

Ie. Bob's bedroom

We still refer to one room by our daughter's name even though she left home to get married some years ago. Many other foster children have used that bedroom since, but we still refer to it as our daughter's room. And it makes sense because everyone then knows what bedroom we are talking about.

We had two front bedrooms and one back bedroom. My parents would have had to refer to them as the left front bedroom, or the room next to the stairs or whatever. Simpler to say Helen or Ben’s old room.

My parents have a bedroom in the house known as 'the office' because that's what is was 20 years ago when my Dad worked from home. They also have a bedroom known as 'bunnys room' despite me never having lived in this house with them, but it's the house where I sleep if I stay over but then so do all their guest who aren't sleeping in 'the office'

Pah . Not weird at all. My futility room is called Jack’s room . Jack was our first greyhound and it used to be his safe place because he didn’t understand sofas and was frightened of laminate floors , so we made him his own room off the kitchen so he could feel included . It’s still called that even though we’re now on our 5th and 6th dogs .

I finally cleared my stuff from family home when it was sold.

I'd been married 30 years...😳

My grandparents have rooms at their house that we used as children when we stayed over, mine is still referred to as 'Loftys room' even though I haven't slept in it for about 15 years! In fact I don't think I've even been in it in the last five years, but it will always be my room because its easy to identify which one is being talked about.

I do that. 😂

My kids still call them their rooms.

Like EdWinchester and Rafferty, one of the bedrooms in my parents house is a shrine to one of my siblings. I have 4 siblings, we each had our own room, and everyone else's room has been turned into something else (study, guest room etc) except hers. It's exactly as she left it at 19 and even still has her name on the door!

mine refer to my old bedroom now as "the guest bedroom" to try and wind me up.... but it is all in jest - i left years ago!!! and it is an actual guest bedroom now !

before that for a year or two it was "your old room"

but no - itsnot weird!!

Not weird at all, everyone always called the bedrooms in my nana's house as if they still belonged to the people who'd slept in them. Although thinking about it, when my parents were still in their old house after my and my brother had moved out they didn't refer to the rooms as ours any more. My mum went through a weird phase of calling one of them "the golden room" after redecorating.

My parents still call me "baby."

Dad: Who's on the phone

Mum: It's baby!

I'm 46.

I can't talk because I still call mine baby, too, and they're 22 and 20.

Nah I'm 40 and my old bedroom still has my name on the door. I left home at 19. My parents use the room as a dumping ground and my 90s posters of Brad Pitt and Johnny Depp are still on the walls. As is my (mortifying) china thimble collection

Luckily DH and I are given my brother's old room to stay in when we visit - it's actually been changed into a proper guest room, unlike mine!

We had a lodger for a few months years ago - we still call the spare room X's room! It's just a habit.

Yeah I have known this / seen this with lots of senior citizens/elderly.

My DM continued to referred to my old bedroom as 'goldenchicken's room well over 10 years after I left home.. thing is, they never really did anything with it afterwards... So maybe that's why.

No.

Not weird. Just a reference that everyone of relevance understands.

We have an indoor guinea pig who lives in our spare room, aka The Pig's Room 😁

My mum referred to the 2nd bedroom as Stewart’s room until the day she died. Stewart hadn’t slept there for 35 years, his children did though and called it ‘Dad’s Room’.

I’m the only one of my siblings who lived in the house my parents are in. My room is still known by my name. They’re selling the house and I’m sad to know there won’t be a room with my name on it!

The last house we had, I moved into my brothers room when he moved out. Even when I was in it, it was still called his room!

When we retire in a couple of years we will most likely decorate the spare rooms but until then I have neither the time or inclination to do them. That is most probably why the rooms seem left as they were in a lot of houses, people are too busy

In my childhood home the bedrooms were the front bedroom, the back bedroom and the little back bedroom. We all knew which was which.
However in our last house it got complicated, as DC3 slept in 3 of our four bedrooms (over a period of 20 years). We did then revert to calling by the name of the original occupant as in Billy sleeps in Katie's room. Billy has moved into Tommy's room. I am sure he had designs on our room, but we moved before that could happen.

Normal surely?

My parents ave built two new houses since I moved out but there is still a trinity’s room in each one, which I have used about 10 times in nearly 20 years!

I would say it’s pretty normal.