Do your parents/caregivers still live in your main childhood home? If not, when did they sell/leave it? How did you feel when they did?
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My parents are still there, and don't plan to leave anytime soon.
Honestly, I will be devastated when they sell it. We only live 5 minutes away and I don't want them moving anywhere!
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My Grandparents still live in the house I grew up in, I can't even think about the day they aren't there. DH and I had discussed buying it when they do want to move on, it's just too much additional time on DHs commute.
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They sold it around the time I moved out in 2007. I lived there from age 6-23, so had a lot of memories there and was pretty sad when they sold it. What made me more sad though was seeing the photos of it on Rightmove when the people who bought it from us sold it on recently and they changed it so much it doesn't even resemble our house on the inside
The only thing that makes me feel better is that I didn't like the area, so had no intention of going back/staying in the area. It was in Milton Keynes, so you know what I mean
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I am not especially nostalgic about my childhood -- I had perfectly good, stable parents but I did not like the community I grew up in -- so I was not upset when my parents sold the house I grew up in. I have much fonder memories of summer camp, college and my 20s.
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They sold my main childhood home when I was in college. I lived there for only 10 years. I was pretty sad when they sold it, but not devastated. Two homes before that and two since, plus a smattering if vacation homes. That sounds super unstable, but my parents just love the process of building/fixing up a house and then moving on.
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I had a hard time when my mom sold her last house. I actually only lived there from 14 on (29 when she sold it), but it felt like a lot of my life's important memories happened there. Added to the emotion is that she was moving to marry someone I didn't like on a whim (my dad passed away when I was 19). it was hard to pack up the rest of my stuff there and know I would never come back, but since my life had moved on it didn't take too long to get over it.
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We moved when I was 14, and I consider that house my childhood home. At the time, I was more upset about leaving my friends and switching schools. I really did love that house, though!
My parents have been in our new house for close to 15 or 16 years now, an don't have any immediate plans to move. I don't think I'd be sad, though. 16 years later and we still refer to it as "the new house"
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We moved when I was 16. I was excited to decorate a new room.
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I got my parents a nice watercolor picture of our old house to display in their new house so that is nice. Like my mom said, its all about making memories. Its hard to let go of a house that has so many memories, but new memories just have to be created.
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My parents owned their house from before I was born until I was 22 years old. It was definitely hard when they sold it. I took some photos of it to remember it by, and honestly there were a few tears the last time I saw it. But, I knew that their new home was so much better for them (I grew up on 5 acres and they had to spend EVERY weekend taking care of the property-- they moved to a home on a gold course with an HOA to take care of everything so they could actually start enjoying their empty nester years). Now that it's gone I don't really miss it.
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My parents are divorced. I stayed primarily with my mom and we moved houses a lot (same city) so I never had an attachment. My dad always lived in the same house until I was 16. My grandma moved in when we moved out and then she moved out three years ago. I wasn't too attached to that house either since I mostly lived with my mom.
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We lived in a few houses before i moved away after college. I never really missed any of them. I really like the house my parents live in now, which is actually one i never lived in myself.
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I was soooo attached to the house we lived in from when I was around 9 to around 16. It was like my "formative years" home. For years and years (not so much anymore now) I continued to dream about that house. In my heart it was really my home. I would fantasize about buying it back someday. Now unless I come into a large sum of money out of the blue that will NEVER happen. But I can dream
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My parents still live there, but they plan on moving in the next couple of years. It will be hard saying goodbye to the house. They've been there forever, and there are so many memories tied to it. I really really really hope that they will move closer to us - I think that will make the transition much easier.
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My parents still live in that house!
I plan to take out one of the windows, it's stained glass, as a momento.
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We moved from it the summer I turned 17. It was seriously traumatic for me. I had dreams for months (maybe even years - I can't remember) afterward about going back to it. I don't know why it was so difficult for me, but it was.
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@mamimami: Just read your post - sounds like we had very similar reactions.
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My parents sold the house I grew up in when I was 20. I was a little sad at first, but got over it pretty quickly. They've moved twice since then (and are contemplating a third), and each place has felt like home, too! I guess to me home is family and whatnot, rather than the physical house.
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We built our house when I was in the 3rd grade. I remember sitting in my future room and helping my dad fill nail holes and paint doors. I was really sad when they sold it (after I graduated from college) but I was happy because they got their asking price plus more. Part of me always wanted to be able to get that house from them, but it was more important to me at that point that they get their investment back. Plus, I didn't want to live in my hometown. So it all worked out!
Sometimes me and my dad look it up on satellite images and check out what the owners have done. They finished the room over the garage and got dormers put in (yay!) but they tore down the deck my dad built with his own hands (BOOOOO). That was tough to see.
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We moved when I was in high school. I loved that house and still dream about it as being home. The people that bought it tore it down and built this awful monstrosity. Knocked down the stone wall that was built in the 1700s too and basically have no respect for the neighbors or town. We are all so bitter about it. My parents sold because they got divorced and they both totally regret that their selfishness towards each other took the house from me and my sisters. We could never buy it back and the land alone is now worth 3-4 times what they sold the house and land for.
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We moved somewhat frequently (we lived in one house maybe 10 years, and then when I was in middle school moved, and then moved a year later to our "forever home.") After being there only maybe 6-7 years, my dad passed away without life insurance and my mom was forced to sell. I walked through the house when it was empty and sobbed. I just can't go past there anymore. But I think it's more the sadness of what could have been, and that it reminds me so much of my dad (they sold for almost double based on all the work my dad put into it- he was very handy- so I saw him in every inch of that house.) I just treasure all the memories!
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@illumina: I hated the people who bought ours and what they did to it too. I can't even drive by anymore
I avoid it!@Weagle: my parents were the same way! Always willing to make moves and improve the houses. My dad would have flipped houses on the side if my mom let him!
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I grew up in a 200 year old home. After my dad passed away, my brother moved in and built on to the house in order to fit his family (made it from 3 bedrooms into 5) and built my mom a small house that's attached to it by a deck.
I felt great about it. I was happy my mom wasn't alone and that she didn't have to take care of a massive house on her own.
My sister will never get over it. She thinks my brother is taking advantage of our mom (even though he paid off Ma's equity loan and has done some pretty pricey upkeep like repainting the exterior, etc. that mom would have had to pay for).
In the end, I'm super happy with the situation because if mom gets sick or feeble, she'll be able to stay home for longer with family so close by.
Had the house been sold outside of the family, I would have been devastated. But my parents wouldn't have let that happen. If my brother hadn't wanted it, my parents were going to offer it to me.
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I said goodbye to multiple childhood homes so I am pretty nonchalant about it!
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I'm not there yet, but my parents keep talking about downsizing from our family acerage. The house is large and the yard is even bigger, a lot of work for the two of them. It makes me sad, but they are hoping to keep it in the family (my sister and her husband would like to buy it if they can finance it.) It was the house my great grandfather build, so there is a lot of sentiment there.
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It will be weird. It's the family farm, so my dad grew up there and I did. My sister built on a section of it, so I guess we'll still have part of it, but I don't see any of us keeping the rest of it.
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My parents are in the process of selling my childhood home (age 2- moving out to my own apartment at 22). I haven't felt sad yet because they are moving closer to us and they are really excited about their new house. I think I will feel sad seeing it empty though right before they move out.
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We moved a few times growing up, so I wasn't too sad when we moved out of the house we lived in from when I was 14- 24 (that was the first house we had in an actual, real neighborhood). I guess I wasn't too distraught because I was already living on my own and the new house my parents bought was so much bigger and nicer. Like @Mrs. Jump Rope: we still refer to it as the new house, even though they've lived here for almost ten years. I really like their current home though, and will be sad if they sell.
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My parents built my childhood home, and still live there. I will be pretty sad the day that they sell the house. I don't know that it's anytime soon, but you never know what can happen.
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It's a sad day when you see the family home being sold.
Mine sold about 10 years ago and I cried like a baby.
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