Is the space you inhabit right now HOME??  

hi celticEagle I too am waiting its been a year and a half and am hoping this time myson willget that job, accumulate some money and move me out this retirement center into an apartment with him so we both can have a real home not be separated like we are now. So am hoping this is the year for us. hope you also find a place to live too. I so dream of getting our stuff out of storage and having a real home again. will be so very good.

Hi Friend

I have lived my life like that Celt.

I know how you feel about it.

It is very distressing and I often think how blessed the people who have stable homes are.

While this place is fairly steady, I feel one never knows, and to be on the safe side, I am always at the ready.

I have tried a bit to make it homey, but I have little to make it homey with.

Still, I am grateful for what I have and to be able to have a cup of tea or coffee, a bite to eat, and a bed to sleep in.

I truly hope things can settle for you soon and you dear Granddaughter with baby on the way.

I currently live in a weird situation. Part time I still live with mother in my childhood home. Unfortunately it's in danger of being foreclosed as we can't afford to keep it. I stay with her when I have to work at a job that is located in her town. The rest of the time I live with boyfriend in another town and I work at his business. I spend so much time here with my boyfriend that the home I grew up in is starting to not feel like home. Maybe because whenever I go back to my mom's my sister yells at me for everything so I don't feel comfortable. I always feel like I'm inconveniencing people. Whereas at my boyfriend's, it's just the two of us in a small 1 bedroom house. I would like a bigger place and a nicer kitchen. Or to at least do some improvements on this kitchen. Then it would be perfect :)

It is my home but I have my daughter and her family living with me. My daughter probably feels like you do and wishing to have her own space. I just put my house up for sale a little over a month ago and can't wait to get out of New Mexico. I'm moving GOD WILLING to Puerto Rico and my daughter and her family are moving to Florida. We can't move though till the house is sold. Once I'm in Puerto Rico I will be in my home loving every minute of comfort and peace. As I'm sure my daughter and her family will feel the same way once they get their apartment in Florida. We are just hoping someone comes along and buys my house soon. I hope you find your piece of sunshine soon so you can be comfortable in your new beautiful home once again.

Hi, celticeagle. Right now, I live in an apartment that I share with my husband and three children. By June, we plan to move into an house. We don't like it here anymore, because our neighbor downstairs is so affected by any noise that we make. We would rather live somewhere, that is less aggravating on us all. I hope that you will have a place of your own to stay very soon. I know how it is because I had stayed/lived with my sister two times and it was very depressing. And just having to stay with anyone can be frustrating. I hope that things will work out for you. Take care.

No, the place where I reside now is definitely not home. Since I moved to this state four years ago, I have lived in five different residences, and none of them have been home. In my current apartment, my belongings are unpacked, I have all my own furniture, and I even painted the walls a color I like, but even that isn't enough to make this home. I'm constantly having to put up with my neighbors making noise, leaving their garbage all over the place, and even vandalizing the premises. When we have troubles with the apartment, like a leak in our bathroom ceiling, it can take maintenance months to respond. I could fix it faster myself if I was allowed to. And just a couple days ago my husband's bike was stolen. We don't feel safe here, and we definitely don't want to stay.

Yes, the place where I'm living is home. I inherited it when mother passed away in 1997. I was just about raised here, though. Daddy built this house and we moved in it in 1959. We had a farm out here for many years but after daddy passed away in 1985, the land was divided up between the children and some of it had to be sold, I hate to say. I have houses coming up all around me now and I don't like it. My oldest sister and her husband live up the road from me and we really do miss our privacy. I really miss our farm, too. I got the house I was raised in with the front pond and I keep a horse pastured out here. I'm thankful I got that much. I may be forced to move one of these days, I hate to say, because the upkeep is getting very expensive.
It sounds like the place where you are living is very crowded right now. I hope and pray something will work out for you and your granddaughter, though.

*looks around the small one room camper*

Uh...pretty sure this ain't "home" even though I've been here two years...and the house I'll be moving into soon won't really be "home" either although I'll be the only one living there...ain't had a real home for many years, and don't know what it would feel like to actually have one again.

Yeah this is home but this isn't my own home. I live with my parents since I'm single. I do consider this as home but I know that sooner or later I may have to leave but hopefully not in a very near future. I like this home because not only does it have a very good location, we're surrounded with nature but close to the center of the city. Standard of living is low because my parents virtually is paying for everything (though I share).

Yes. I am very fortunate. I moved here two years ago and although it is only a studio apartment and not a big house, I don't plan to leave here for years, if ever. My neighbors are great and I have not been more happy in all my life.

I hope, celticeagle, that all works out well for you too.