How many of you that moved away from your family home have visited it from time to time?
By Hanni Harel
@Hannihar (129388)
Israel
September 27, 2017 8:28am CST
Hi,
I used to go visit my first family home I lived in sat in my car looking at it wondering who lives in it now. I would have liked to go to the door and knock on it and meet the people that live there now. How many of you have gone up to the door and when someone answered you introduced yourself and got to go in and see the changes they made. How many of you felt horrible that you saw how the place looks now?
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@just4him (305863)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
27 Sep 17
We, my siblings and I, sold the family home a couple years ago. I haven't been by it to see it since it was sold. However, after my parents sold my grandmother's home, I did go by there and introduce myself and did get a look at what they did to it inside. It was very nice. I've also seen the back yard, which they enclosed and really did up nice with flower gardens all around. They've done a beautiful job with the house.
@just4him (305863)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
28 Sep 17
@Hannihar It was different to see someone else's belongings in my grandmother's home. They built that home and were one of the first ones on that block. Even though someone else lives there now, it will always be my grandmother's home. It wasn't my grandfather's home, though he absolutely lived there. He was a gambler and the bank wouldn't allow him to sign the paperwork, fearing he would gamble the house away.
@Hannihar (129388)
• Israel
29 Sep 17
@just4him
Valerie, I can understand how the bank would not let your grandfather sign. That must have been hard on her married to a gambler. Did he gamble all his life and did she hide her money so he could not get to it? I understand the memories and how you can look at it as always being your grandmother's home.
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@Hannihar (129388)
• Israel
28 Sep 17
heyhey, do you ever go knock on the door and explain who you are and ask if you can come in and see how it looks now?
@Hannihar (129388)
• Israel
29 Sep 17
Dianne, I am so sorry it is gone now and yes memories can be nice too. My father had my first house I lived in. What do you mean you drove your old house? Did you drive it to another place and put it there or what?
@ilocosboy (45157)
• Philippines
27 Sep 17
I did not felt horrible no matter how the look is, it was always nostalgic for me.
