The house I grew up in had it all in the basement - one room with washer and dryer, furnace, water heater, water softener (eventually), sump pump, a full-sized chest freezer, and two dining room-sized tables for folding clothes, plus a rack on wheels for hanging things up.
Lovely! Here a lot of houses are what we call two up two down, meaning there are two rooms upstairs and two downstairs and that's your lot!
We positively loved our second house in the UK, it was a dream (for us) - I would have gladly bought it and lived there the rest of my life.
It’s a very nice sentiment.
I think thats ok. Well it's okay by my standards. You know them and enjoy them when they are alive and you think fondly of them (or notIt’s a very nice sentiment.
We always stop in a “visit” MrsT’s folks when we’re in Florida (Winter Haven) - their remains are in a columbarium there, which (and I don’t mean any disrespect in saying this) is sort of like pay respects to a post office box.
This will sound horrible…all my family around here, buried within eight miles of where I grew up - I’d be hard-pressed to find their graves! I know what cemeteries they’re all buried in, but I haven’t been to any of them since their various services, and my grandad, I missed his funeral, as well as one of my uncles, so I’d have to go on a hunt for them.
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My folks are about 150 miles away in the small town cemetery where they grew up. I don't have any memorable connection to the community other than we would visit occasionally when I was small. Still mostly French speaking. I haven't gone since the funerals. I don't really see the point. I remember them here in this home town and I live in their house. And, it's just a stone, really. Although, my brother goes occasionally and says you can still get fried pork roast and baked beans with your eggs for breakfast at the local diner..It’s a very nice sentiment.
We always stop in a “visit” MrsT’s folks when we’re in Florida (Winter Haven) - their remains are in a columbarium there, which (and I don’t mean any disrespect in saying this) is sort of like pay respects to a post office box.
This will sound horrible…all my family around here, buried within eight miles of where I grew up - I’d be hard-pressed to find their graves! I know what cemeteries they’re all buried in, but I haven’t been to any of them since their various services, and my grandad, I missed his funeral, as well as one of my uncles, so I’d have to go on a hunt for them.
That was a big point of contention with my in-laws - they’d retired to Florida about 10 years before my FIL died, and when they’d bought the columbarium spots, a couple of the kids were very upset.
Don't feel bad. Last time I went to North Carolina, my uncle, who lived locally, had us walking all over several cemetaries looking for their parent's grave site, as well as several uncles, aunts, cousins because he forgot exactly where they were. My dad, who was the oldest brother and was in early 70s then, sat the last few out until we found them.It’s a very nice sentiment.
We always stop in a “visit” MrsT’s folks when we’re in Florida (Winter Haven) - their remains are in a columbarium there, which (and I don’t mean any disrespect in saying this) is sort of like pay respects to a post office box.
This will sound horrible…all my family around here, buried within eight miles of where I grew up - I’d be hard-pressed to find their graves! I know what cemeteries they’re all buried in, but I haven’t been to any of them since their various services, and my grandad, I missed his funeral, as well as one of my uncles, so I’d have to go on a hunt for them.
The house we live in now only has an indoor toilet because the farmer's wide and daughter won the argument when he was building the house. 1 toilet, 3 bedrooms, 2 people. But the toilet is separate to the bathroom.I doubt there’s been a house built here in the last 60 years that didn’t include at least one en-suite bathroom (usually called a master bathroom), associated with the biggest (again, master) bedroom.
In our house (which I’m tempted to say is a “bog standard” one
Usually, the master bathroom is also nicer than the one for everyone else, but in our house, both bathrooms are identical - just a tub-shower, toilet, and sink. Nothing special by any means.
