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Would you pay to stay for one night in your childhood home

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WhaleSharkBootySweat · 09/08/2023 17:49

.... because mine is on air bnb!
It looks unrecognisable!
Tempted but also think I would find it sad.
I would never tell my parents I did it. I think they would find it weird.

OP posts:
PenCreed · 09/08/2023 18:10

I found an Airbnb on my childhood road but decided it would be too weird!

DappledThings · 09/08/2023 18:11

Definitely

RosesAndHellebores · 09/08/2023 18:12

Almost. DH and I paid to stay at Grannie's old house which is now an hotel. 20 years ago it was refurbished as a 5* luxury gaff. It has gone significantly down hill and was very upsetting.

Paddleboarder · 09/08/2023 18:14

No, I don't think so. But I probably would stay in the first house I bought, I'm very sentimental about that one!

Thatbloomindog · 09/08/2023 18:17

I would buy mine in a heart beat. Always looking to check it’s not on right move

itsmylife7 · 09/08/2023 18:18

MillicentBystandr · 09/08/2023 17:50

No. I’d pay to burn it down or drive a wrecking ball through it though.

Yep same here.

iatealltheminieggs · 09/08/2023 18:19

Not my childhood home, but the cottage my Nan was born in (in 1919) is a holiday rental. If she was still alive I would have loved to take her back.

edwinbear · 09/08/2023 18:26

Definitely. It was a very rural, 16th century, thatched farmhouse in 3 acres of land, with orchards and ponds. It was a lovely house, although I saw it for sale a few years back and the owners had made a right mess off it!

All the white paint, to offset the beams, were now different colours in every room, bright pinks and greens etc and knick naks all over the place. The neat and tidy gardens had been transformed into an overgrown mess - I think they were going for a wild cottage garden look. I’d just be curious to see it and would love to show DC. It’s the total opposite of our London semi with postage stamp garden. Don’t feel particularly sentimental about it.

EggOverEasy · 09/08/2023 18:27

Nope

Callyem · 09/08/2023 18:29

I'd have a little wander around but don't think i'd want to spend a night.

LubaLuca · 09/08/2023 18:30

My mum still lives in it, so no. I would like to visit the first shared house I lived in at university though, my memories of it are hazy but happy.

Pineapplewaves · 09/08/2023 18:31

Yes - I love to reminisce and I think it would be very different to how I remember it, I believe my childhood home is a lot smaller than I remember it.

Mamai90 · 09/08/2023 18:34

My parents still live in mine. But if they didn't I'd definitely pay to stay in it.

DeadButDelicious · 09/08/2023 18:36

No, mostly because my parents still live in it, I can stay over any time I like!

Now my Nans old house? That I would consider.

Longlive · 09/08/2023 18:38

I have, my childhood home is in Asia. We went there on Honeymoon and stayed in the house we lived in for 5 years.

It was weird as it hadn't changed a lot and I felt like I was having flashbacks.

YukoandHiro · 09/08/2023 18:40

If it was the house I lived in from age 4 to 8 then yes because I have strong but fuzzy memories.

The one I left at 18? No because my parents only left it about 5 years ago and I saw it a lot in the intervening years. No desire to go back there.

x2boys · 09/08/2023 18:45

Well.my parents still.live in the house we moved into when I was 10 the two houses we lived before that are quite close by I did out of interest Google them and have seen pictures of the inside when they were last uo.for sale
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DarkSpark · 09/08/2023 18:48

I went for a job interview last year that took me past my childhood home and I had a nosy from the outside, it felt rather bittersweet but I wouldn't have wanted to go in.
Similarly, we bought our house while I was pregnant with eldest, shortly after we moved in I was sat on the couch with a baby on my boob and turned round to find an entire family waving at me from the end of the drive.
It was an elderly lady who'd previously lived there but moved to a care home and her daughters had brought her to see the place again.

PandaGrump · 09/08/2023 18:50

I think I would. Both my parents dead and I had happy memories. I often dream I’m there.

GoodChat · 09/08/2023 18:52

My parents still live in mine but I occasionally check to see if my grandparents old house has ever gone back up for sale.

If I could afford to buy it I would, for sentimental reasons, but I'd never live there, so if I had infinite amounts of money Grin

Oakbeam · 09/08/2023 18:54

I would have a job. It has been demolished and a housing estate built over it and surrounding fields I used to play in.

TinkerbellefromYorkshire · 09/08/2023 18:54

I live in my childhood home.. the one l was born in ( the living room) nearly 65 years ago.
I wouldn't live anywhere else.

andHelenknowsimmiserablenow · 09/08/2023 19:00

Ooh so many happy memories, some not so happy. I would definitely, and then I would invite DM, Dsis and DB and the kids for a little party 🥳 and try not to drink enough to get maudlin.

dalmatianmad · 09/08/2023 19:03

I've recently moved back into my childhood home.
I cannot tell you how right it feels!
I cared for my mum in the living room until she died and this room feels so peaceful.
I was gutted when it went on the market and wasn't in a position to buy it.
I bought it at first opportunity and the previous owners have done a great job moderning it!
I love being back here and won't ever move now.

Fam23 · 09/08/2023 19:05

Yes, but then I’d also consider buying it if it went on the market!

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