That Heartbreaking moment when you see...

"Cherry_man1" (Cherry_man1)
02/12/2015 at 18:41 • Filed to: Ford, Childhood Home, Mustang

...your childhood home for sale....this hurts

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This makes me really upset......

Here is all of my babies before I sold my V6 Mustang.

DISCUSSION (24)

TheHondaBro > Cherry_man1
02/12/2015 at 18:46

My parents recently put my childhood home up for sale. That house has a bangin' garage workshop. Unfortunately we moved out before I could use it. :(

Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero > Cherry_man1
02/12/2015 at 18:48

Damn that's a pretty good deal, no offense to you but up in chicagoland that gets you maybe 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms with a single car garage

yamahog > Cherry_man1
02/12/2015 at 18:49

Sorry to hear that :(

My mom's exhusband currently has my childhood bedroom available for rent on airbnb (seriously??), so I know the feeling.

Cherry_man1 > TheHondaBro
02/12/2015 at 18:49

Ya I really don't want to move but we have to because my dad got fired in December. And got a job here in Kansas City.

Cherry_man1 > Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero
02/12/2015 at 18:49

Ya our area you get good deals.

Cherry_man1 > yamahog
02/12/2015 at 18:50

mhm it sucks cause just about every major event in my life happened in and around that house....

T5Killer > Cherry_man1
02/12/2015 at 18:52

Mine got sold about 15 years ago. Now its run down and has a god aweful gate and 2nd driveway combo. Man they ruined that house. Plus there was a tree next to the sidewalk on the garage side of the house that was planted when I was born has been cut down :(

http://www.trulia.com/homes/New_Mexi…

V8Demon - Prefers Autos for drag racing. Fite me! > Cherry_man1
02/12/2015 at 18:53

We moved around d a lot when I was a kid, so I really have no attachment to a childhood home. I bought my home in 2004. Its the longest I've been in one house by at least double. I've remodeled a good portion and am in process of doing a bedroom and the basement right now. My kids know only this house. I plan on that for both of them for the rest of their school years.

Mr. Ontop, No Strokes, No Smokes...Goes Fast. > Cherry_man1
02/12/2015 at 18:55

That is a great back yard. Must have been good while you were little cherry_man.

Cherry_man1 > Mr. Ontop, No Strokes, No Smokes...Goes Fast.
02/12/2015 at 19:00

It was there used to be a BIG swing set back there but we drug it over to a neighbors house when we got a new fence.

TheOnelectronic > Cherry_man1
02/12/2015 at 19:12

Holy shit, someone else from Ofallon.

SaigaShooter - He's got an Impreza > Cherry_man1
02/12/2015 at 19:12

My parents are divorcing and while I haven't lived at home in many years, it was hard when I saw their listing too. It really is a punch in the gut to see it listed when you are looking for your own place in a lower price bracket. I'd buy it if I could.

I grew up here.

Cherry_man1 > TheOnelectronic
02/12/2015 at 19:12

Wat? Who are you and do I know you?

Cherry_man1 > SaigaShooter - He's got an Impreza
02/12/2015 at 19:13

Thats a really nice place.

TheOnelectronic > Cherry_man1
02/12/2015 at 19:14

Probably not. Graduated HS in '09 and haven't really done much socializing since. Living in Santa Fe, NM currently.

Cherry_man1 > TheOnelectronic
02/12/2015 at 19:16

I graduated in '12 So we went to HS together at some point. You probably a senior when I was a freshman.

SaigaShooter - He's got an Impreza > Cherry_man1
02/12/2015 at 19:23

My father and I did a lot of home improvement projects together, tile, flooring, drywall, electrical, retaining block, patios etc... lots of time and energy in that house.

TheOnelectronic > Cherry_man1
02/12/2015 at 19:26

Yeah, except for robotics I didn't really interact with many freshman.

My name is Tor at any rate.

Cherry_man1 > TheOnelectronic
02/12/2015 at 19:28

So you had Curry for Physics?

I was on the Lacrosse team. Kevin Caveny.

RPM esq. > Cherry_man1
02/12/2015 at 19:29

Why would it hurt? People move, even your parents. Your identity is not bound up in those four walls, and neither are your parents'. Whatever fond memories you have will not be sold with it.

Nice house though. Where I live that house is easily worth triple that asking price.

Cherry_man1 > RPM esq.
02/12/2015 at 19:32

It won't but that house and the town it's in is what made me who I am today.

T5Killer > TheOnelectronic
02/12/2015 at 19:38

Oh Snap another NM oppo (Albuquerque)

Cherry_man1 > TheOnelectronic
02/12/2015 at 19:39

Also you still on the robotics FB group?

RPM esq. > Cherry_man1
02/12/2015 at 19:49

I'm not saying there's no reason to have fond memories of your hometown and childhood house—far from it—just suggesting that the people you lived there with, and experiences you are remembering, had a lot more to do with making you who you are today than the house did, and you get to keep those. I'm not trying to argue with you or change your mind, I'm just legitimately curious why that particular stack of bricks and vinyl siding in a suburban subdivision is not separable from the human relationships and memorable experiences that, presumably, are what you actually value.