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We're leaving this house-sit tomorrow

Judy Evans @JudyEv (382412) • Rockingham, Australia 11 Jan 23

Tomorrow, we leave here for the next house-sit. We need to start collecting our bits and pieces from the rooms we’ve been using. We always seem to have a lot of things that need power and accessing enough power points means that...

western australia

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I would if I could

AmberLynn @ScribbledAdNauseum (104615) • United States 10 Mar 21

But I can't, so I shan't. Or something like that. I'm sitting here today looking through youtube and restoration videos of old houses. I'd love to restore old houses, but well.. Not restore them. Like, I'd...

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my heaters broke,and i'm so tired..

scarlet_woman @scarlet_woman (23463) • United States 23 Oct 18

or more accurately,my furnace wire. we tried to kick it over this week,nada. oh,the furnace itself is working..the wire to the thermostat isn't. we originally thought,ok..needs new thermostat again. nope. removed the old...

guess i wasnt broke enough

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The Ghost on the Stairs

RasmaSandra @RasmaSandra (98106) • Daytona Beach, Florida 21 Aug 16

My mom’s mom didn’t come to live with us until I was two years old because she had remained in occupied Latvia and now found herself behind the Iron Curtain. My parents found a Latvian woman who had arrived in New York around the...

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Once upon a time I lived here

James Higgins @JamesHxstatic (29410) • Eugene, Oregon 15 Jun 16

Back when I returned to Oregon after a brief year or so in San Diego, I rented a house on 24th Avenue. The store where I work part-time is in that neighborhood and I sometimes turn on 24th on my way to the store in order to find...

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Is Old Houses good for parents or not?

zahidz @zahidz (311) 9 Dec 09

i just come across to one discussion where people are feeling so much sadness about the animal and want them to keep all of them to give space in their homes. but what about old houses? if we feel that much pain for animal why we...

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Does anyone live in a apartment with noisy neighbors or paper thin walls?

Im4real79 @Im4real79 (58) • United States 18 Dec 08

I have a apartment that I am renting. When I first moved here it was quiet, but about 3 months into my lease I started noticing the noise upstairs. There are at least 5-7 people living above me. The foot traffic up there is...

noisy neighbors

paer thin walls

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Spider confrontation

clrumfelt @clrumfelt (5597) • Tennessee Ridge, Tennessee 9 Aug 08

Last night when I turned out the light and laid down to sleep I felt something crawl across my face. I grabbed it and held it( on my nose, of all places, but I was afraid to move.) I thought it was one of the harmless night bugs...

brown recluse spider

brown recluse spiders

close encounter

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