The Growing Old Kinda Sucks thread
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In our house they definitely put a fake wood flooring in over... something. No idea the condition and we like the current flooring anyways so we're not doing anything about it but it's a Known Unknown.
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It's kinda neat finding clues that suggest a previous owner was possibly nuts. It helps you build a narrative around the life of the house.
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Oh, I've got a bunch for mine, though mostly not structural. Our previous owner was a bachelor who worked at the nearby military base. When we moved in I found bullet casings in the furnace room. It was obvious from dust patterns on the walls that never actually put nails into his walls and just used command strips for everything, and for a little while we kept getting packages for him that he wouldn't come pick up (he moved south of us). Eventually we considered them abandoned and opened them up. What were they? Apparently he had recurring subscriptions to have Campbell's chicken noodle soup, fish oil pills, and various Funko Pop videogame figures delivered to his house. Also, based on the mail of his we kept getting he was a pretty died in the wool maga republican. Certainly enough data to present a pretty vivid picture in our mind.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑01 Feb 2023, 11:33amIt's kinda neat finding clues that suggest a previous owner was possibly nuts. It helps you build a narrative around the life of the house.
EDIT: bullet casingszl, not gun
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Who subscribes to Campbell's soup? Not even Dahmer was that crazy (no offence, WWK).Flex wrote: ↑01 Feb 2023, 11:59amOh, I've got a bunch for mine, though mostly not structural. Our previous owner was a bachelor who worked at the nearby military base. When we moved in I found gun casings in the furnace room. It was obvious from dust patterns on the walls that never actually put nails into his walls and just used command strips for everything, and for a little while we kept getting packages for him that he wouldn't come pick up (he moved south of us). Eventually we considered them abandoned and opened them up. What were they? Apparently he had recurring subscriptions to have Campbell's chicken noodle soup, fish oil pills, and various Funko Pop videogame figures delivered to his house. Also, based on the mail of his we kept getting he was a pretty died in the wool maga republican. Certainly enough data to present a pretty vivid picture in our minds.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑01 Feb 2023, 11:33amIt's kinda neat finding clues that suggest a previous owner was possibly nuts. It helps you build a narrative around the life of the house.
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The amount of dust that was in the carpeting was insane. I piled it all in the garage before taking it to the dump and the musty smell was overpowering.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑01 Feb 2023, 11:27amOoof. The house we bought in Saskatoon, the previous owner was into stencilling. Stencilled flowers on all the walls, painted on the floors, fucking everywhere. There was a bath mat painted on the bathroom floor. I spent several years stripping paint and restoring the wood. Miserable experience.WestwayKid wrote: ↑01 Feb 2023, 11:17amDeferred maintenance can be okay, but as you've mentioned - keep a list and peck away at it. I was lucky because we had been renting from me ex-in laws and they let us stay in our old house rent free for a few months so that I could do as much work on the new house as possible. They had old shag carpeting in every room on the main floor. A whole rainbow of colors: blue, orange, green, white. First thing I did was yank it all out. There were/are nice wooden floors underneath, but you could tell where they kept their potted plants, for instance, because the wood was all rotted from years of water dripping into the carpeting. When I redid the kitchen floor, I found 3 layers of old flooring. They just kept putting new on old. It kept me very, very busy.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑31 Jan 2023, 5:56pmJust don't cover it up and forget it. Keep a list of what needs to be fixed and peck away at it as time, money, and skill are available.
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When some friends bought their home, we helped with prep for move in. The previous owners were smokers and when we washed the walls, the water was ink black from years of baked in smoke. Unsettling as hell for someone to exist in that permanent cancer smoke.WestwayKid wrote: ↑01 Feb 2023, 2:09pmThe amount of dust that was in the carpeting was insane. I piled it all in the garage before taking it to the dump and the musty smell was overpowering.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑01 Feb 2023, 11:27amOoof. The house we bought in Saskatoon, the previous owner was into stencilling. Stencilled flowers on all the walls, painted on the floors, fucking everywhere. There was a bath mat painted on the bathroom floor. I spent several years stripping paint and restoring the wood. Miserable experience.WestwayKid wrote: ↑01 Feb 2023, 11:17amDeferred maintenance can be okay, but as you've mentioned - keep a list and peck away at it. I was lucky because we had been renting from me ex-in laws and they let us stay in our old house rent free for a few months so that I could do as much work on the new house as possible. They had old shag carpeting in every room on the main floor. A whole rainbow of colors: blue, orange, green, white. First thing I did was yank it all out. There were/are nice wooden floors underneath, but you could tell where they kept their potted plants, for instance, because the wood was all rotted from years of water dripping into the carpeting. When I redid the kitchen floor, I found 3 layers of old flooring. They just kept putting new on old. It kept me very, very busy.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑31 Jan 2023, 5:56pmJust don't cover it up and forget it. Keep a list of what needs to be fixed and peck away at it as time, money, and skill are available.
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We are about to hit two years in our house and I am grateful we got a small house. We are about to do our first big job in replacing the roof and there are certainly plenty of things I would like to improve but for the most part the maintenance is low impact and manageable.
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I went to the dermatologist on Monday and the lady super-froze three precancer spots. The nitrogen gun really make you feel like a small part of you is dying, not it a painful way but more like you feel part of you removed. Wear sunblock kids.
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Ugh, I'm overdue to go back to the dermatologist, I hate walking around with all the burn blisters after they blast all my sun spots. When I was younger, we spent all summer outdoors, never gave sunscreen a second thought, live and learn I guess.BostonBeaneater wrote: ↑01 Feb 2023, 2:44pmI went to the dermatologist on Monday and the lady super-froze three precancer spots. The nitrogen gun really make you feel like a small part of you is dying, not it a painful way but more like you feel part of you removed. Wear sunblock kids.
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Yeah, same. I'm still pretty bad for sunscreen—laziness, of course—but I do wear a hat regularly now (bald man's head feels the sun more harshly, y'know).Sparky wrote: ↑01 Feb 2023, 2:46pmUgh, I'm overdue to go back to the dermatologist, I hate walking around with all the burn blisters after they blast all my sun spots. When I was younger, we spent all summer outdoors, never gave sunscreen a second thought, live and learn I guess.BostonBeaneater wrote: ↑01 Feb 2023, 2:44pmI went to the dermatologist on Monday and the lady super-froze three precancer spots. The nitrogen gun really make you feel like a small part of you is dying, not it a painful way but more like you feel part of you removed. Wear sunblock kids.
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Sunscreen irritates my skin so I wear a swim shirt under a shirt or golf sleeves (although, I can't find ones that actually fit right), and I never go outside in the summer without a hat now. Most of us here grew up in a generation that slathered baby oil on our skins. Good times.
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I usually will wear it if I will be out in the sun much. Definitely at the beach and when in more tropical or sun drenched areas. Never did as a youngin.
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I have an abdominal strain. It's on my left side where all the diverticulitis fun happens, but so far it feels only like a muscle strain. I'm an idiot.
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It's best when that shit happens and you're not doing anything unusual. I've had my back seize up on me while standing at the kitchen counter drinking orange juice. That's not me trying to dunk a basketball, but just feeding myself. I say again, intelligent design? Bullshit.
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Yeah, my back used to seize up from making the bed. Ridiculous.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑15 Feb 2023, 11:41amIt's best when that shit happens and you're not doing anything unusual. I've had my back seize up on me while standing at the kitchen counter drinking orange juice. That's not me trying to dunk a basketball, but just feeding myself. I say again, intelligent design? Bullshit.