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thene ([personal profile] thene) wrote2011-09-27 02:26 pm
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athene1miranda 12:28 pm
you know i can't remember if i ever linked you to the stupid house; http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-35113844.html it is in the pretty bit of the trough of bowland where apparently they still think there is a property boom lolololol
the only chance of this selling involves the fact that the house next door is for sale for way more.

Fireholly99 12:35 pm
sorry, stupid house?

athene1miranda 12:38 pm
the one i lived in for about 15 years
lol lancs lol

athene1miranda 12:43 pm
the whole thing is just ridic and painful, i mean, it is huge and the layout is on crack but all it has ever been used for is hoarding. the funniest part is the bit that says 'BATHROOM - INCOMPLETE' - i lived there for 15 years, there is over $40k in my current account right now, but that is how it was because someone else decided it just wasn't important for us to have a fully functional bathroom when we were kids
i have started to thikn of it as being much like having lived in someone's unfinished novel for 15 years. it was unbeta'ed, there were no adjectives and there were all these plot twists that didn't go anywhere.

Fireholly99 12:46 pm
oh my god thene :(

athene1miranda 12:48 pm
honestly one of the reasons i am cool with being an immigrant is that i had problems with feeling a bit alien in the normal uk - like, little random things like one of my lancs friends and one of my london friends both living in prefabs that had the exact same layout. that used to throw me esp given how weird my base level 'normal' was. in the US at least the normal has no negative connotations for me and it is all shiny and new and i am allowed to gawp at it
i have got a LOT better since i was 18 though. seriously.
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[identity profile] 1000kindsofrain.wordpress.com 2011-10-03 08:46 am (UTC)(link)
The idea of being stuck in someone else's unfinished novel is priceless. In fact, there's a novel in that...

Actually, the sink in my Dad's bathroom doesn't have any taps. And the bath is full of his tools. BUT the bathroom in the house I grew up in was the one room that worked properly (plus or minus a series of dodgy boilers), and the one room that was spared my mother's hoarding (plus or minus bottles of shampoo and conditioner).

The cooker, OTOH, was a disaster. The last hob died while Mum was on jury service, and I spent a fortnight cooking meals for everybody using just an oven. (Did you know you can fry onion on an oiled baking tray? Or cook rice in a casserole dish?)
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[personal profile] thene 2011-10-03 10:37 pm (UTC)(link)
HOARDERS ARE AWESOME, NO? And of course, broken appliances never get thrown away. Ever. One of the more disconcerting detail-things of this year came when my brother was first over there trying to clean up; he asked for the estate to cover the cost of a halogen oven for him because the oven there didn't work. So our father had been living alone in this ridic four-bedroom country house full of hoarded shit without a working oven, and no one was close enough to him to know this, and he didn't get himself another one - due to limited mobility I guess, as he had had his driver's license taken away after passing out at the wheel last year.

While I lived there, I was mostly able to keep one of the upstairs rooms usable, plus the kitchen. When I was last there in 2008 none of it was usable except my brother's bedroom. The weirdest part is that it didn't truly click until about then that this is what is called hoarding. Like, looked at moment by moment there is always a rational explanation for the presence of each pile of stuff but once you have the perspective to look at it as a whole there is not even kind of any doubt about it.

[identity profile] kat-nic.livejournal.com 2011-10-03 09:26 pm (UTC)(link)
:((((((( Not enough frowny face in the world.

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[personal profile] thene 2011-10-03 11:05 pm (UTC)(link)
idk, I am resigned to the fact that my life has been weird but I really don't have a whole hell of a lot to whine about right now, and then sometimes I go and think about things I shouldn't and get raegstabs over it. I really, really have a hard time thinking about exactly how insane my father was, to the point where there is one story so WTF I've only ever been able to describe it on the trauma survivors' comm on LJ, and then with extreme difficulty. The funniest part is all the other houses in the same area that are posted on that same website; I saw a good many of them being built/renovated while I was living in the area, and they are all beautiful and liveable and complete, whereas that one is like some kind of infected sore - and it could have been fine. He had so much money hidden away, he could have fixed every one of that house's problems any time he wanted to. The only time I asked about any of the house shit he just whined about how hard everything got after our mother died and that is because he deliberately drove away all serious prospects of help. I guess this is how hoarders think, they WANT to surround themselves with crap and keep the rest of the world out.

yyyeah I need to quit wondering about it and get on with all this finicky moving shit. It'd be nice if it sold because wow does H deserve some payoff on all the work he put into it this summer, but, meh.

[identity profile] kat-nic.livejournal.com 2011-10-04 06:21 pm (UTC)(link)
All I can say to that is goddamn. :( *hugs*
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