Estate Sale Finds in 2010!

[Jeffhs]

Originally Posted by radiotvnut

I was thinking of the estate sales of today, where the inside of a home often looks the same today as it did 40+ years ago. Then, I think about our society today and how estate sales will be 40 years from now. I think we will find very few sales in which the house has remained the same for several decades. Heck, most people in my age group think they must have a new "this" and a new "that" everytime the wind changes direction. And, forget about them staying in the same house for 40 years. They get bored with whatever they're living in and obtain another "bigger and better" house every few years.

The house I grew up in screamed 1950s until it was sold (by my late father's widow--long story and OT) ten and a half years ago. No kidding--there was old salt-and-pepper color carpeting in the living room and the hallway to the back of the house that was worn down to the underlayment, the original furnace, kitchen cabinets that dated at least to the '50s, the original linoleum flooring in the kitchen, and other remnants of that decade which were never updated (except the paint on the living room and bedroom walls), as I said, until I moved out in 1999 and the place was sold. I'll never forget the first time I saw the house after it was sold. I had gone to a barbershop in the neighborhood to get a haircut, and decided after I was finished to take a look at the street I grew up on. Don't you know it, I nearly walked past my boyhood home, and would have if I hadn't seen the address (1745) on the new mailbox next to the front door. No kidding; the new owners had done so much remodeling in that house, at least as much as I could see on the outside, that I did not recognize the place, despite having lived there 40 years of my life (I'm now 54 and have lived in a small apartment 35 miles east of downtown Cleveland since November 1999; I don't miss that house one bit).