What is that weird thing in your house?!
By Amber
@AmbiePam (121097)
United States
March 13, 2016 4:45pm CST
Well, if someone asks you that about your spouse than I feel sorry for you. 
I'm talking more about something that you wouldn't normally think of being in your home. I guess it could be a picture or even some exotic pet people around you aren't familiar with.
I was trying to figure out where to hang my late mother's Masters degree (she died almost a year ago, she was 55, died of dementia she had for almost nine years). I remember she worked full time while getting her Masters degree when she forty. In another discussion I'll have to tell you about the weird thing with her student loans.
Anyway, I came across her Masters degree and thought I'd hang it in my apartment. A degree in my apartment wouldn't be so weird except like I said, it's my mother's, not my own. I think I might hang it right behind my computer, which is in the corner of my living room. It won't stand out if I put it there.
So do you guys have anything weird or unusual in your home? Something maybe that wouldn't be odd in some circumstances, but in your home, may be?
I'm talking more about something that you wouldn't normally think of being in your home. I guess it could be a picture or even some exotic pet people around you aren't familiar with.
I was trying to figure out where to hang my late mother's Masters degree (she died almost a year ago, she was 55, died of dementia she had for almost nine years). I remember she worked full time while getting her Masters degree when she forty. In another discussion I'll have to tell you about the weird thing with her student loans.
Anyway, I came across her Masters degree and thought I'd hang it in my apartment. A degree in my apartment wouldn't be so weird except like I said, it's my mother's, not my own. I think I might hang it right behind my computer, which is in the corner of my living room. It won't stand out if I put it there.
So do you guys have anything weird or unusual in your home? Something maybe that wouldn't be odd in some circumstances, but in your home, may be?10 people like this
11 responses
@Juliaacv (56374)
• Canada
13 Mar 16
I think that is a very appropriate item to hang in your dear mother's memory. She was a lot of things, but obviously a loving and devoted mother and educated scholar.
I think that the oddest thing hanging in our home is a baby picture of me, and beside it, in the same large over-sized frame, is a picture of our baby girl. Side by side we do look alike. But it represents the past (in my picture) and the future that never was in that of our daughter's. Very bittersweet.
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@DianneN (254926)
• United States
13 Mar 16
I'm sure it would make your mother so proud to know that you'll hang it. Good for her to have earned that degree. And speaking of degrees, the only strange things hanging in my home up north are my older son's degrees. He has no room in his own place to hang them, even though he earned them all. At least they're in his old bedroom.
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@AmbiePam (121097)
• United States
14 Mar 16
Yeah, at least they are out of the way. I guess he can't hang them where he works? I have no idea which vocations do that. My mom's degrees hung in her office because she was a professor. I guess other jobs wouldn't necessarily offer space for them.
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@DianneN (254926)
• United States
14 Mar 16
@AmbiePam He is an attorney in New York City. He has degrees from Cornell U, Cornell Law School, Phi Beta Kappa and key, and a prestigious Marsden Kasden award for a doctoral thesis. He could hang them in his office, but thinks it's pretentious. So, I keep dusting them, because I am proud of how hard he worked for them.
My husband was a professor, chairman of two departments, and also has his doctorate degree. He never hung any in his office. Crazy.
@celticeagle (189957)
• Boise, Idaho
14 Mar 16
We have the outside of my grandparents victrolia. The music rolls and the workings are gone.
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@celticeagle (189957)
• Boise, Idaho
14 Mar 16
@AmbiePam .....It's just the outer part and my daughrer insisting on keeping it. It is real heavy too.
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@jillybean1222 (6406)
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14 Mar 16
Hmmmm, now you have me thinking. I'm not sure. I have a Lord of the Rings action figure collection. I also have some Harry Potter memorabilia.
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@Letranknight2015 (52665)
• Philippines
14 Mar 16
Wow I hope my brother gets to live longer, he just had his Masters defense done last month and soon to graduate. Sorry for your loss, but nine years of dementia, Im glad her pain came to an end
It's not weird, this is how you "HONOR" your mother which is extremely admirable of you.
I've always feared loosing my mother since she's getting old. I will keep displaying her trophies and awards even if she passes way. this way, I will remember her and how she raised me.
It's not weird, this is how you "HONOR" your mother which is extremely admirable of you.
I've always feared loosing my mother since she's getting old. I will keep displaying her trophies and awards even if she passes way. this way, I will remember her and how she raised me.1 person likes this
@Tampa_girl7 (54730)
• United States
14 Mar 16
I 'll have to think about it. Not sure?
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@JudyEv (382483)
• Rockingham, Australia
16 Mar 16
I think it is nice of you to honour your mother in this way. It sounds like she had a pretty hard life overall.
@Scindhia (1906)
• India
14 Mar 16
I can only think of weird behavior at my home occasionally and not weird things. Good of you to think about putting up your mother's degree. She would have like it.
and not weird things. Good of you to think about putting up your mother's degree. She would have like it.