How many homes current or past that you lived in are you sentimental towards?

chocolateorange03 · 13/12/2025 19:01

The first one I had with my partner and oldest child, we then bought a house in a different area and have been desperate to move back since, 4 years later we are finally moving back to the previous area on Tuesday x

SeaAndStars · 13/12/2025 19:18

I've lived in 16 houses and have fond memories of all of them, but I love my current home best and am happier here than I have been in a very long time.

ladyamy · 13/12/2025 19:51

3

Buscobel · 13/12/2025 20:29

A couple. One that we lived in for nearly 20 years. I’m not keen on the current one.

everdine · 13/12/2025 20:31

The one I live in now as I gave birth in the living room and have lovely memories of that evening!

BobblyBobbleHat · 13/12/2025 20:34

My current one is the one that feels most like home. I've moved around a lot and have good memories from many of them, generally though older houses make me feel more comfortable and homely.

Littletreefrog · 13/12/2025 20:45

None. I have sentimental feelings to the people I lived with or the stage of my live I was at but the houses are just bricks and mortar and I don't feel sentimental towards them.

PurpleFlower1983 · 13/12/2025 20:47

My current home.

SleafordSods · 13/12/2025 20:48

None really. They all suited us at the time but we moved out for valid reasons at the time. I do have fond memories from all of them though.

Hiptothisjive · 13/12/2025 20:48

Zero. My sentiments and memories are with the people and situations - not about bricks and mortar.

Never understood people who feel
gooey abiut a building.

TangoWhiskeyAlphaTango123 · 13/12/2025 20:49

Only one out of 11 houses I have owned as an adult. It was my post divorce house, a gorgeous 1930s semi that nobody wanted to but as it was derelict and stank of urine and stale fags. I took it back to brick and pieced it back together - it was such a lovely house. I only sold it because I relocated but no other house has grabbed me like that one.

blankcanvas3 · 13/12/2025 20:50

My two childhood homes, and the one I live in now. We’ll never move (I hope!). I’ve only lived in 4, my last house I hated. We put it back on the market after 6 months

BirdyBedtime · 13/12/2025 20:52

My current home. We have lived here for 20 years this month. DD learned to crawl the week we moved in. DS came home from hospital to here. We have extended twice to shape the house to our family. My family have grown up here

The flat I lived in for 2 years as a student. So many happy memories in the centre of the city

BackToWhereItAllBegan · 13/12/2025 20:59

None so far. We’ve never bought a house thinking it would be our forever home as we’ve always known that we’d be moving for work related reasons every few years.
We’ve just bought a property that eventually will be our retirement home so I hope over time that I’ll become attached to this one.
I was sentimental about my childhood home, that my parents still live in, but it’s been renovated beyond all recognition in the 30 years since I left home so I don’t really feel a connection with it any more sadly.

Arlanymor · 13/12/2025 21:05

Littletreefrog · 13/12/2025 20:45

None. I have sentimental feelings to the people I lived with or the stage of my live I was at but the houses are just bricks and mortar and I don't feel sentimental towards them.

Same, I've lived in 19 places - I just added them up!

user1471548941 · 13/12/2025 21:07

The first house I bought myself. Bought with an ex- had seen it on the market 2 years prior and not been able to afford it. Came up again, we bought it, when the relationship ended, thought I would lose it! My Dad convinced me I could buy him out- had to talk myself into a payrise at work, cancel my pension contributions and basically beg the bank, as well as saving up to pay ex out of his share of the deposit. Became a single homeowner in the South East aged 24. It’s only a one bed but as a converted barn, is absolutely full of character.

When I moved back in, my 80 year old Nanny helped me move in as my Mum was undergoing chemo. My Mum came down and helped me build the bed and we fell about laughing.

Eventually met DH and he moved in and we adopted DCat. We managed to squeeze in 2 desks and WFH full time in the tiny lounge during lockdown, got engaged in front of the enormous Xmas tree I would insist on!

We eventually bought a much more sensibly sized 3 bed detached house as we were really were bursting at the seams (and I wanted DCat 2!) and I was desperate to have a space big enough to host people but have kept my magical house and rent it out. Both of our tenants so far have been older ladies needing a place after divorce and we’ve specified to always have local people who need to stay in the area (massive rental shortage in our area as everything ends up being an AirBnB).

I never want to sell it- it made my dreams come true.

therearesigns · 13/12/2025 21:08

I don't feel sentimental towards my childhood home I lived in all my life. I do feel a little sentimental towards the home I had my first child in, the one I had my second child in, the one I had the next two in, and only a little towards the one I had the others in. I don't feel particularly sentimental towards the home we are in now, but a bit more sentimental towards the wider area it is in. In all cases, it's not the home but the memories I'm sentimental about.

Lampzade · 13/12/2025 21:09

None

Lonelycrab · 13/12/2025 21:10

None myself. I’ve had several that I’ve put my blood, sweat and tears into, and childhood ones where deep memories are formed, but at the end of the day the houses/flats are just bricks and mortar and land. It’s the people that make the memories and those people, like we all do, move around and come and go.

ItsFridayIminLoveJS · 13/12/2025 21:10

Only the one l live in now.. the one l was born in 67 years ago..and my childhood home.. passed on when my Mum passed away.
Never felt comfortable in the other houses l had.
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HereforonedayonlytoavoidStrangerThingsspoilers · 13/12/2025 21:14

What a great question! Mine are my childhood home, where my parents still live, the flat I rented on my own in my late twenties – which was my little haven and where I put myself back together after a toxic relationship – and the house I'm in now, our family home. We renovated it from scratch to our spec so it's very much our dream forever home.

BobblyBobbleHat · 13/12/2025 21:15

Hiptothisjive · 13/12/2025 20:48

Zero. My sentiments and memories are with the people and situations - not about bricks and mortar.

Never understood people who feel
gooey abiut a building.

For me, it's because I feel settled and happy here with my family. We moved around a lot when I was a child, so it's more about the feeling of safety, stability and belonging than the physical building. I have the same feeling about my Grandma's old home, though I never lived there, I was sad when it was sold after she'd died.

sakura06 · 13/12/2025 22:05

Towards my grandparents’ house definitely. It’s been a part of my whole life. I wish I could buy it. I also love my in-laws house and have some sentimental attachment to it, but know we will never be able to afford it when it needs to be sold and can only visit rarely.

LibertyLily · 13/12/2025 22:22

Two, I think.

Not sure why, but I have no nostalgic or sentimental feelings about my childhood home - or the area where I grew up.

We've owned nine properties (one flat, eight houses) and I had one student flat (rented). Of those the ones I miss/loved living in most are -

the one we moved to when DS was just eight and lived for ten years. It was arranged as several flats when we bought it and we painstakingly turned it back to a beautiful family home, mostly DIY. It was way too big though, so we sold it the year DS went to uni, but we have such happy memories of family gatherings as well as all the parties DS had, particularly as a teen...and -
house number six. An unusual three storey early Victorian 'cottage' that was extended in Arts & Crafts style in 1924. It had a gorgeous garden and suited our style perfectly. I absolutely loved every bit of that house and we spent some wonderful times there with our two DDogs, but we sold after just three years as we realised the location wasn't right for us (we'd moved from the south coast to the West Midlands).

Virtually all our homes have been special in some way imo, usually from an architectural perspective (thatched/Tudor/400 year old mill), and all have been in need of fairly major work. Often we've fallen in love with the untouched nature of the building, gone through blood, sweat and tears doing a sympathetic renovation, which has occasionally coloured my view of the place - sometimes to the extent I then can't wait to sell!

I can't stand our current Georgian cottage, (mainly because the previous owners butchered it in the 1960s/70s removing all historical details) and after a year here, I feel no emotional attachment despite our best efforts to make it feel homely/characterful.

One day I hope to find another place that I feel sentimental towards!

ClawsandEffect · 13/12/2025 22:26

I've lived in 30 different homes (bedsits, flats, apartments and houses) but there are 5 homes I still think of wistfully in addition to my current home.

Childhood home. Moved at 11 and due to the circumstances, that was the end of my childhood.

First marital home. Where I brought my baby home. It was a happy time.

Another marital home. Got divorced from there and was forced to sell, but I'd love to still own it.

A place I lived overseas. One of the best times of my life. Very very fond memories.

A flat I lived in temporarily. Again, I would have loved to be able to stay in the area, but was unable to find anywhere to buy.

And my current home. Plenty of downsides to it, but also I have real security here and a lot of happy things have happened here too.