I wonder how many people buy too big because of expected visitors and then find too few visitors to justify all that extra space?
So now they sit in this monster of a house and won't sell because smaller places won't fit all their belongings. So to visit the children, they have to fly to their places, all of which are not close (Ca, KCMO,Hawaii,).
I wonder how many people buy too big because of expected visitors and then find too few visitors to justify all that extra space?
It always boggles my mind how much people will spend to store an excess of belongings...most of which they probably don't even need. A co-worker and her husband (kids all gone) moved from a 2000 sq. ft. house to a 3500 sq. ft. house because "we have too much stuff".
I thought to myself "Wow...you just spent $100k for a storage locker"
1) Stuff that I would never use but "might be good for something someday"
2) Stuff that I would never use but "is worth a lot"
3) Stuff that I would never use but could be useful if I ever got around to fixing it
4) Stuff that I would never use and is outright trash
I wonder how many people buy too big because of expected visitors and then find too few visitors to justify all that extra space?
We see it replayed in House Hunters International. Gotta have 3 BR and a big DR. We just shake our heads and say: "Just wait and see!"An older half-sister and her DH did that. They moved to FL and bought (from the photos) a lovely house with plenty of room for visitors, expecting their kids to visit often...
We see it replayed in House Hunters International. Gotta have 3 BR and a big DR. We just shake our heads and say: "Just wait and see!"
What do you call five shelves of old college class notes that you are keeping for nostalgia? Yeah, trash... I hadn't looked at them in decades, so for nostalgia purposes I kept notes from two or three favorite classes and the rest went to the dump.
I have the same thing! Boxes of old notes and textbooks from the college days. I think that one day I might take a look at it again, but I believe I have moved with the same boxes twice and not looked at it. Second problem is that with the changes in my field the data/information is or would be out-dated by now....this year will mark 20 years from graduation
We have friends who have a huge home (childless couple) in Vancouver. We said "Why would you build such a large house?" They said that their parents from Charlottesville and their in-laws from Toronto would want to visit. (Big enough to be there at the same time!)I've thought exactly the same when seeing this take place on HHI. It's tough enough to get family to visit once they've relocated to another part of the US. One can easily picture how this is likely to play out once international travel is involved.
We have a different outlook on retirement housing. Due to overseas moves, we never really had the 'dream house' and were perpetually in a state of 'making do'. Downsizing for retirement would mean keeping about the same as what we currently have in Texas.
So the retirement plan is to build the dream house on 160 riverfront acres in Oregon.
Cleaning those windows isn't going to be an easy DIY job.
One of the 'joys' of having a farm - you get to justify having more toys than you ever could of imagined when you were playing in the sandbox at age 5.
I wonder how many people buy too big because of expected visitors and then find too few visitors to justify all that extra space?
So we are currently thinking of either a lake house/condo or hunting property about 1 hour drive from each of us. It'll give me a get away place and them a weekend place easy to get to.