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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.

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Summermeadowflowers · 09/08/2023 20:18

Oh definitely. My dad sold it after my mum died. Weirdly it’s still home to me.

Left · 09/08/2023 20:19

Just checked Airbnb and there is a one on the estate I lived on as a child. Feel conflicted - I’m tempted, but also emotional looking through the pics. Would probably end up standing outside my old house feeling a bit lost.

Lindy2 · 09/08/2023 20:22

My mum is still living in my childhood home. It was and still is a loving, happy home.

I'd quite like to have a look at what my grandparents' former home looks like now but I don't think I'd stay there.

otherwayup · 09/08/2023 20:23

Ivalueloyaltyaboveallelse · 09/08/2023 17:52

No because my parents still live in it 😂

Same 😂
I often stay there and would be pretty miffed if my folks charged me!!!

FelicityFlops · 09/08/2023 20:24

No, we sold the house to a young family when my mother died. I spent 3 weeks in the house during that time. It was not the same.

InsomniacsWife · 09/08/2023 20:26

No, in hindsight it was an utterly miserable place, devoid of nurture or care.

I couldn't wait to leave and got out at 17.

You couldn't pay me to stay there for a night.

Crumbcatcher · 09/08/2023 20:26

If I could go back in time to my mum and our pets being alive, I would stay. But not by myself, it would be too sad.

Moonflowered · 09/08/2023 20:26

Yes and no. I live in it now after a long gap. It's not the same and now I see its flaws rather than the things I used to love. But it's helped me to appreciate what made it so special first time round.

UthredofBattenberg · 09/08/2023 20:27

No, I loved my childhood home, but I left under a dark cloud to which I still bear a grudge many years later.

It would make me so sad to stay there one night and leave again. I'd buy the place if I could.

blackpear · 09/08/2023 20:27

In a heartbeat. It is the sort of house that would lend itself well to air bnb so I keep an eye out.

KimberleyClark · 09/08/2023 20:29

I don’t think so. If it’s completely different from when you lived there what’s the point? I wouldn’t mind looking around though.

Whiskeypowers · 09/08/2023 20:33

@Ihateboris 💐

QuestionableMouse · 09/08/2023 20:35

I've just sold mine and it's currently being gutted. Don't even want to drive past it, let alone stay in it because I get upset!

BennyBlancofromtheBronx · 09/08/2023 20:38

Tell me you didn't grow up in a back-to-back in Manningham without telling me you didn't grow up in a back-to-back in Manningham.

Growlybear83 · 09/08/2023 20:39

I would love to! I've driven past it very occasionally and it's very different now, but I'd love to go inside, and see what my parents' garden is like now.

HurdyGurdy19 · 09/08/2023 20:41

No. It's where my dad collapsed and died in front of me when I was 12. Not somewhere I'd want to revisit

Womblegreen · 09/08/2023 20:43

9 before the age of 13, so not sure which I’d choose!

Conversely I’ve been in this house since the end of my childhood, decades ago!

Waxlyrically · 09/08/2023 20:53

I would if I could bring my parents back but as they’ve both died it would be too heartbreaking. I’m lucky I had a happy childhood but would rather keep the house in my memory as it was with them in it.

SoAndSoSaidSo · 09/08/2023 20:58

My parents still live in it and when we visit we stay there.

Ketzele · 09/08/2023 20:59

It was a council flat with an outside toilet, so not really! I'd quite like to have a nosey, though.

Gladtoblasto · 09/08/2023 21:04

So the current owner of mine connected with me on social media and started to show me stuff like the wall paper he was finding behind walls and places I'd written my name. He seems a lovely guy who is giving the beautiful house my parent built even more love. It was fantastic growing up in that house and I love that a young family now live in the house.

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WhaleSharkBootySweat · 09/08/2023 21:34

@Gladtoblasto that's lovely. I often wonder if the E.T stickers are still on the downstairs cupboard door of my nan's old house.

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Changethetoner · 09/08/2023 21:38

Burnamer · 09/08/2023 17:51

Which one? I had 9 before secondary school.
no thanks.

I had 6 before secondary school. And no, too sad.

readbooksdrinktea · 09/08/2023 21:39

No. Without the family it is just a house.

OublietteBravo · 09/08/2023 21:41

My parents still live there. They’ve not moved in almost 50 years. My DC went to stay last weekend.