selling your history

[orangerful]

My Grandparent's house went up for sale and my Mom sent me the listing and it is giving me all kinds of feels.

I mean, no one in our family needs that house - it is huge and all of them have had their families already and the grandkids are all grown up and either are not having kids (oddly, most of us) or have their one kid and skipped town.

But it is still sad to see it all empty and cleared out and wondering if someone will just buy it and bulldoze it to make apartments or something else.

Growing up, this was one of the few stable places in our family - Navy Brat meant we moved around a lot, my Dad's parents moved several times too - but the Gradys stayed put and I knew this house pretty well. I loved it so much I even took my high school friends up there to visit one summer because I just wanted them to see it and be in it. I took my friend Amy there too and Tim also visited several times. It was just an important landmark for me, so many family memories.

End of an era.

GAH now I'm tearing up at work! Let me go read some Pete the Cat books to clear my head!

Comments

[yourlibrarian]

My childhood home is still around (though owned by others now) but I remember after my mother died a neighbor, who was a family friend I'd known all my life, sold her home to move closer to a daughter. The buyers razed the house and built a new one that obscured the view of the lake everyone used to have because her house had been built lengthwise across half the lot instead of widthwise like the new one.

It was a sad change for me -- I'd known the interior of her house as well as my own and often played in her yard as well.

BTW, thought you might like to see this: https://www.themarysue.com/internet-defends-libraries/

[rahirah]

That is an incredible house.

[trepkos]

It looks wonderful - just because you don't NEED it, doesn't mean you don't want it .. how sad it's left your family.

[thenewbuzwuzz]

I hope the new owners appreciate the house and take good care of it.
(My parents sold our old house this year, and it was just so CONFUSING to find out that the new owners wanted to raze the garden to the ground. Even the blueberry trees. Just... what? I hope yours are more sensible.)