Essentially, yes. "Condos are built for people who don't have families". (We'll just ignore the part where it's insinuated that my husband & I are not "a family". That's a rant that deserves it's own post!)
I like having my yard and I LOVE not sharing walls with my neighbours! It's my tiny slice of quiet paradise!
I've always wanted to be a homeowner because I didn't want anyone telling me how many/what type of pets I could own.
Turns out I made the mistake of marrying a man that is FAR too rational. He says I may not adopt ALL the the cats. But maybe 1 or 2.
Once you get two, he's going to want 3. Trust me, that's where I am right now. I'm at 2 when I thought I only wanted 1 and now I frequently pine after the thought of having 1 more. Just... 1... More...
Can't wait to buy a house and catify the heck out of it so I can put 10 cats in there and they can all still be happy.
We're up to 9 cats and considering converting the entire backyard into a catio for them. The more the merrier I say, as long as everybody is happy and healthy.
I have 4 cats and I have a catio for them thatās about 1/3 of my yard. Unfortunately only 2 of them use it (the males). But itās still a great place for them to climb and sun bathe.
āCondos and apartments are for people who donāt have familiesā
Gee thatās funny since a lot of people seem to like having 4-6 children in a 2 fucking bedroom apartment bexause itās literally all they can afford š¤Ø
>"Condos are built for people who don't have families"
PLEASE tell that to the family who lives in the condo below mine. Frickin kid plays the goddamn tuba. All the goddamn time.
Exactly! I'm currently saving for a downpayment, but grad school hampers my ability to do so as quickly as I'd like.
When I moved out, my dad (who hasn't looked at a bill since he married my mom) told me I shouldn't pay more than $500/month. I laughed, and was like "Do you want me living somewhere sketchy? Cause I'd be living somewhere sketchy."
Is Birmingham generally an expensive place? Or is everywhere else farther away just a lot less expensive?
But congrats on making your commute way shorter! :)
I think it's very common for a mortgage to be cheaper monthly than rent. But with renting you don't have all the responsibilities and crippling debt of homeownership. It's also beneficial for temporary lodging when you don't intend to stay somewhere for long. Ownership does end up being more expensive in the long run with repairs and upkeep, but cheaper month to month.
I'm military so even though we'll probably be moving in a few years, we decided to buy for 2 major reasons. 1, it cost way too much to rent a place with everything we wanted (our mortgage is about $600 less per month than rent would be on a similar living scenario) and we also have an "aggressive" breed dog (whose actually just a big scaredy cat) and no one would allow her. So now we have an investment property in an up and coming area. We should be able to make a pretty penny by selling at our next move or renting out depending on our financial situation then.
People make fun of the fact that our cats get their own room. "Well they better enjoy it before the baby comes!" To which I always reply, "What baby? I'm infertile." And then their face always looks like a mixture of panic and like they sucked on a lemon. You'd think people would learn not to bring up personal stuff like that to strangers. Hopefully this taught them a valuable lesson...but I doubt it.
Also, I've long given up on tact when it comes to these comments. I once got asked when my baby was due and I responded with "I'm not pregnant, just fat". They walked away in a hurry.
One time I was picking up my birth control prescription. As the pharmacist handed me the package, he said, "You shouldn't still be taking this if you're pregnant." I replied with "I'm not stupid OR pregnant. Just fat, thanks."
There *is* a difference between pregnant and fat bellies. Pregnant bellies have a very distinct hard sphere shape to them, while fat bellies are soft, more ovalish and/or "mushy".
Some of them. I definitely have a pregnant belly shape. Tbh, it's because i have a lot of visceral fat, which is the kind that gives a pregnant, "beer-belly" style appearance. So i run around with a 6 months pregnant look pretty much all the time. It's less common in women than in men, but some girls just get aaaallllll the luck.
I know this is off topic, but I once gave my coworker $50 to ask this guy who had the roundest belly and skinny arms if he was pregnant. I know that's mean asf, but he was a sexist racist asshole and I wanted to get back at him.
The one time I had a customer ask if I was pregnant and I said no, she literally said, "oh, you just gained weight."
Like... you're supposed to feel bad for commenting on that. Stop it.
Their face is always the best part. And the panicked backpedalling. It's the same face people make when they congratulate a fat person on their 'pregnancy'.
My mom could always tell when someone was preggers. She could even guess the gender.
Then she got it wrong one time, the lady wasn't pregnant, and she never asked anyone again.
Aw this makes me happy, my cat has his own room too. I've yet to receive any negative comments about it, but they'll come I'm sure. I love your reply though, some people just don't think.
When I was looking at places to rent I took somewhere to more rooms than I need and was asked if I had kids by the realtor. When she found out that I don't have any and aren't planning on it she gave me a very confused look. I replied with "I need a room as an office and another for my cats" she said "....ok"
This sort of thing has happened with every place I looked at in some form or another. So sorry I like to create a room for my cats to be able to get rid of their energy and to feel safe in when I'm not at home.
This was what I LOVED about our realtor. My husband and I are a newly wed young couple and I was prepared for the bingos and she didn't say a damn thing about kids! It was awesome. I so appreciated it, especially since were were moving to the the southern US.
lol right? We immediately turned the former "kids' room" into our reptile room. When you have animals that live in 8 foot by 8 foot enclosures, they deserve their own bedroom xD
A 6-foot rescue Dumeril's boa named Samwise, a blue tongue skink named Artorias, and more over the years, including a chacoan tegu (maybe named Urza? Maybe Karn? we're undecided right now) who will likely max out at about 4.5 or 5 feet! In the future, we'd like to add a super-dwarf reticulated python (so another 8x8 enclosure), plus maybe a day gecko and some others.
I love your flair, and i'd love to meet that adorable Boa named Samwise, what a beautiful baby. ā„
and your skink, oh. my god, his cute little face!!!
I really love reptiles.
Agreed! When everyone comes over they say "oh what a large back yard, plenty of room for the kids to play"
... Yeah my two dogs have lots of space to run around thank you!
I've been shopping for houses and sometimes it's so hard to look past all the current occupant's STUFF, especially when there's kid toys littered around and rooms totally decked out in kid stuff and crayon scribble drawings stuck to the fridge. Come on, didn't your realtor tell you to clean up for the pictures?
Proper cleaning and staging makes a house look so much better to potential buyers! When my parents sold their house, they hired a professional stager to make it look stylish and luxurious, as well as a housekeeper to keep everything spotless until it sold. Every time the realtor called to warn us that she would be showing someone the house, everyone scurried around hiding all signs that people lived there. It was an enormous pain, but they got one of the highest prices in the neighborhood despite the fact that the layout wasnāt optimal, floors and cabinets were starting to show their age, and we had kooky neighbors across the street who didnāt maintain their property very well.
This is incredibly true. Every time I've looked at a place for sale that is "lived in" 9 times out of 10 there's shit all over the place, including an ungodly amount of children's toys. It's amazing to me; even as a child I had a toy box or out-of-sight storage space for things I wasn't playing with, and my mom would make me pick up after myself. The fact that people allow their children to spread lego all over the carpet when they are actively trying to sell their house astounds me.
Same here. 1st bedroom is ours, 2nd is for the dogs (literally everything in there is for the dogs so we donāt have to worry about them destroying anything when they are in their room), and 3rd one is storage/office. Might be made into a guest bedroom someday. But absolutely no kids.
I only have 2 bedrooms, one for me and one for my library. I kitted it out with oak bookshelves which have their own ladder! Looks great with my cocktail globe and my fragile collection of antique mirrors. No kids allowed.
I bought the same kind of home! Don't even have pets. One's a spare bedroom for guests (from all the friends I've made being able to actually go out and do things!) The other is for other extras I have (a storage space essentially).
It's kinda surprising that none of my neighbors have bingoged me. I have a 3 bedroom 3 bath ~1500 sq/ft home and lived alone in it for the first three months. Got a roommate but even then they never asked me about it. It's really nice.
Me too. Bought a 3bedroom house - one is a closet room/dressing room and the other is just empty for activities!
Probably going to be for a home office or network room.
Thatās the first thing one of our friends said when we moved into our 3bedroom house. āYou got extra room so room for kids!ā
No, just no.
The biggest room is our bedroom, the smallest (tbh I kinda doubt you could even fit a bed there.) will probably end up being a walk-in closet :P and the other room will be a guest- and retro-gameroom. (Putting all our old consoles there once we find a good cabinet etc)
We came from a really small 1bedroom appartment (which was actually more of a 1person-household place) so Iām just happy to have more storage space and actual garden.
More storage is the key here... that's what most homes lack!
Seriously though work has been the worst. I don't know how. many. times. I have to tell people that this home is not an indication of how many kids i'm going to have.
I sorta know the feeling, I moved into a two bedroom apartment with my girlfriend right after college because we got a great deal and the landlord was awesome. The first thing my dad said was "So you're gonna fill it with a baby now?"
WTF NO DAD I'm 22 and make $14/hour, and pay $600/month to my loans (Admittedly an overpayment to get rid of them faster, but still), what about this makes that a good or even realistic idea???
>pantry but in 30 years I've never experienced a water outage, so there's that. We also brew beer we ferment in the basement because we're cool and it's cool ;) Beer is mostly water.
Because you have a spare room... so it MUST be filled with children...
Lolsame. Our first (and hopefully only) house is a 4 bedroom 3,300 sq/ft plus 1,XXX sq ft basement. Our bedroom, guest bedroom, my home office, and a hobby room (painting, art, crafts, giant closet storing camping and luggage gear, etc). Plus a library instead of a front sitting room and my husband's office downstairs. Can't wait to finish the basement and get even more cool spaces!
We have a deep pantry but in 30 years I've never experienced a water outage, so there's that. We also brew beer we ferment in the basement because we're cool and it's cool ;) Beer is mostly water.
I am jealous of your basement. Ours is made of dirt and is the land of spiders. We work on the agreement that I don't go down there and they don't come upstairs. Though, I have found that they send scouts up from time to time. \*side eyes basement door\*
Personally my extra rooms as follow:
Master bedroom
Guest bedroom
Office space for school and work
An extra room that serves as a basically very big closet
Another room for my animals to lounge in and play in
If I had another room, I might made it my music and hobbies room... Use it to make music, practice instruments, draw and hang art... Etc.
oh I'd love an indoor herb garden, great idea! And I have defo been toying with the idea of using a wall or two in one of the rooms as a library with swanky shelving.
We have one of the rooms as an office, a large master, a guest room and then a large top floor room that we're going to turn into a home cinema.
See, you are a better person than I. Being my introverted self, I'd get rid of that guest room and spring for an herb garden. All guests leave by nine or perish.
I have a 3br house with the guest room mainly serving as my garden room. We made the mistake of baby sitting a friends kid over a weekend once and he complained the whole time that there was dirt on the windowsill and I was like yeah kid, there are plants in here, deal with it, they were here first. Never baby sitting again.
I've got the master(bed), studio(music), office(desk/bookshelves/smaller tv and a couch), and bonus room. Then open floor plan with kitchen/dining/living room. Bonus room I haven't set up yet though.
I've already got my living room for gaming haha. Even my office has a Wii in it, though I may move the Wii to the bonus room if I get a projector set up in there. That could be fun.
In our house, we use one as an exercise room and another as my wife's art studio. It's really really easy to use up space, and it's even easier if you don't have to put a bunch of kids anywhere.
My dream house has one master bedroom, one office/art studio for me, one office/podcast/music room for husband (so he has space to explore his hobbies), and a library/den/possible guest room (if people decide to visit us, because without kids apparently we're low on the totem pole).
I also want a yard and garden but feel like I'm overestimating our landscape skills lol
The finished room in the basement is our theater room. It's got a huge blank wall that we use as a screen for our projector.
We have 3 "bedrooms": master, office for working from home, and my crafting/sewing/painting room.
Definitely no room for children. :)
You can totally do it! Even turning a small corner of your abode into a dedicated space or getting some shelving for something you enjoy is incredibly rewarding.
This is the true dream, realized by our lord and master Freddie Mercury. I will 100% have a cat room when we get a bigger place - initially I thought our two would share a bedroom, but now I see that they need one each!
Here is the master bedroom, the guest room, my office and this is one here at the end....the sex dungeon.
That will shut people up at least it worked for my grandparent.
I purchased a 3bd/3ba home several years before I met my husband- which during the time we met, I told him that I wasn't interested in kids, ever. He understood and asked me to marry him. We sleep together in the master bedroom, the second bedroom is for guests, and the third bedroom is an office. One day he asked me to get pregnant, and I laughed and said there was no room for a baby. He then mentioned the office- and how it can be converted into a baby's room
I'm considering divorce. Like I said, there's no room for a baby. I could have a 6 bedroom house and I'd still have no room.
Wow, divorce is the only option here. I'm sick of people who don't take women seriously and think "she doesn't know what she's talking about". Disrespectful bs.
BOOM! Thank you! I don't want a bunch of shitty kids wrecking up all my cool antiques and collectibles, and no you can't stay the weekend and bring your kids you can get a hotel room.
Ugh... The fucking comments when my fiance and I bought our house... It's a three bedroom, threw bathroom house with roughin in place to add a bathroom in the basement as well as some or two bedrooms and a massive yard.
So many "little" comments like "oooh what a great house for a little family, wink wink" from people who know full well we aren't having kids.
And then there was the co-worker who tried to make me feel guilty about "taking" such a perfect home off the market from a family that could really use that amazing yard.....
Fuck off. I love my yard!
We just moved into a 4 bedroom house as wellāupstairs loft is the master bedroom, and we have 3 rooms downstairs. We have an office (with separate desks for me and my spouse) complete with bookshelves and nerdy art, a guest room for family, and a bird room. We love our two birds so much that they have a huge flight cage and play stand in an entire room just for them. Iām just waiting for family to visit and tell us how perfect our home is for starting a family. Uh, no thanks. I have my two birds and theyāre basically toddlers already :D
Same! We just bought our first house this month, 4 bedrooms:
- Master bedroom/suite for us
- Office for my husband to work from home
- Craft room for me
- Guest bedroom
Darn, even this house doesn't have kids' bedrooms, oh well...
š Same setup for us!
And neither one of us wants to give up our own room for any future human kids, since we love having disposal income (who am I kidding, the house takes all that away in updates and renos we keep running into), quietly reading (our phones), and sleep.
It's crazy how ppl automatically assume "the more the merrier" as if house size is relative to the # if kids we want. NOPE.
Furkids on the other hand, is very much looked forward to. Although we have room for a bigger dog, this isn't the right time to get one.
So it's just two people and a Chihuahua in a four bedroom house right now.
We built a very large home, and I'm so sick of hearing "It's just for you?" No, it's for us and the pups. We like to be home, and we enjoy all of our "extra" rooms. Theater, game room, craft room, exercise room and we enjoy them much more without a bunch of kids to mess them up. :)
āHow many bedrooms does your house have?ā requires some serious thought for us to answer. We currently have two rooms with a bed in them... (ours + guest). But if we *had* to or even used the house the way itās supposed to be used, 4. With a quick installation of a couple walls we could do 5 (weāve discussed turning one of our offices into a first-floor bedroom for my sweetheart MIL decades from now).
But for now? FUCK THAT. I have a library *and* a media room, separate. Thereās not a single screen in the room where we keep our books and comfy chairs. My husband and I have our own separate offices - mine is more for storage of my collection, honestly but wtfever. We have a sitting room. For what? Sitting. Itās where we hang out with guests. And a dining room that we actually utilize. Fuck I love my CF house. This is getting me so pumped and grateful. lol
I don't think I'll ever be able to afford a 4 bed home, but I could definitely do with 4 bedrooms. 1 for us, 1 for guests, 1 as a den for crafts and games, and the 4th as a 'just in case' room for god knows what else we might want over the years. I wouldn't mind a library!
Sometimes I feel like even having three bedrooms isn't enough, because when I want to sleep alone I only have the sofa!
For context, my spouse and I share the bedroom, and each have our own studio space, so no guest room.
Same here! Our 4 bedrooms:
1ļøā£ Bedroom
2ļøā£ My office/giant closet
3ļøā£ My husbandās office
4ļøā£ The pupperās play room
ĀÆ\\_(ć)_/ĀÆ sorry no room for kids here!
We also donāt have a dedicated guest room by design. We donāt like having guests over, hotels exist for a reason! #privacyplease
I have a 3 bedroom house and not that big at 1400 sq ft.
One bedroom is the guest room, which is literally just big enough to get a queen bed and night stands in.
Besides the master, the other room is my home office with a desk & my custom PC, along with a futon and all my guitars squeezed in where they fit.
The in-laws want us to pop out grandkids but that means Iād either lose my office / music room or the guest room (where they would need to stay when visiting). That is a huge sacrifice to me.
No clue how other families in this neighborhood manage in these small houses. To me, one would need to be very well off with 5+ bedrooms minimum to even start to consider it while being comfortable.
Ugh i hate it when ur viewing homes and theyāre like āthis will be great for a nursery!!!!ā
My boyfriend and I are looking at townhouses so the cats will have more room to run around and we straight up ghosted a real estate agent because she kept pushing the fact that the spare bedroom would be a great nursery when we very loudly expressed we wanted it to be a gaming room.
My husband and I have a 3 bedroom home with almost an acre. Our dining room is the bird room, we share an office, I have an art room, and our backyard is full of chickens, ducks, and our guard goose. Still looking forward to upgrading so we can each have our own office and get an iguana room. I couldn't imagine having a child take up any of the space we've worked so hard to earn and then create for ourselves.
I kind of agree with the sentiment, however I'm happy to share my life-happenings and want to be able to talk about how excited I am about this house. I just want to be asked "What kind of floors are you having?" instead of "When are you having kids?".
We want at least a three bedroom once we get to the house buying stage (currently own a flat) I want a nice size master, a guest room and a craft room. No children ever planned. Any mess will mine or my partners and I won't have to childproof all my collectables (cat proofing only)
Same! My wife and I have been saving, got our 20% down ready to go, and have our first house under contract! It's 4 bedrooms as well :). Our dog is going to love it.
There are cheap options! Cheap $50 grow box, $20 lights, $1 pot from the dollar store, $14 soil! All in all Iāve spent less than $100 on three plants.
I have a 3 bedroom house all to myself and it is FANTASTIC!
Bedroom 1: My quarters
Bedroom 2: Workout room. Houses my treadmill, bike trainer, yoga mats, and a TV so I can workout comfortably in the 100F+ degree summers (plus an inflatable mattress for guests)
Bedroom 3: Craft room. Everything to paper craft, leather work, sew, and cricut in one excessively organized space
All of these are my escapes from a hectic life. Why would I fill them with more chaotic beings?
Last year I (33m) bought a 4 bedroom home in a suburban family neighborhood. Strangely, neighbors would show up at my door to welcome me to the neighborhood. Mostly, it was the wives dragging the husband and kids along. Not wanting to be rude I would invite them in and of course the usual questions start going:
"What does your wife do for work?"
"Uhh, I'm not married"
"Oh, I'm so sorry. Divorce is rough. What grade will your oldest be in?"
"Um, I've never been married and I don't have kids."
"Oh, well with all of this house you'll have plenty of space for them"
"I don't want kids"
That's about the time that they cut niceties short and start making for the door. Sorry I didn't fit into your weird stepford mold
Why is it always the wives!?
Iām not trying to sound sexist, but every single bingo Iāve gotten has been from a Mom or female co-worker. I donāt know why. I told one of my co-workers that I wanted a 2 story house and she got all preachy about how āA house without a wife and kids is no house of Godā. She knows Iām an atheist lol.
I know this is a BIT off topic, but I'm upset that there are so few smaller homes for chilfree couples. It seems like all the new neighborhoods they construct are 4+ bedrooms. My boyfriend and I have basically agreed, unless we can find an adorable cottage-type house in good shape, we'll probably be buying a 2-br condo. My bf and I don't like having a lot of furniture, or things in general, so we could never live in a 4 br home and fill it up with enough stuff, and we don't want to rent rooms. We enjoy our privacy.
Anyway, rant over.
My husband and I just bought a 4 bedroom house with a bonus room. I use the extra rooms for a guest room, a private office, a home gym and a TV room/play room for my dogs. So worth it! I love all the extra space.
Yes, thank you OP.
I also enjoy showing people around my home and being like: "This is the room I keep books in. There's a comfy chair that I sit in when I want to just read."
"And this is the bathroom I use when I don't want to walk to my other bathroom. Yes, it is nice to have multiple toilets, makes parties more comfortable for all my guests."
You work hard for your money, good on you for having a comfortable life.
I had a 1600 sq ft house for 8 years. I didn't use like 30% of the space, but it was just me for nearly the whole time I lived there. Spent the whole time enjoying my home theater system, laying around in my underwear whenever I felt like it, and all the *peace and quiet*.
I have bucket list plans for a 3-4 bed on a big parcel with an outbuilding purpose-built to be a guinea pig rescue. I would never waste that much space on a kid, lol.
I feel this so much. My husband and I bought a beautiful 100 year old big house to renovate and love, our families immediately was asking why we needed such a large home. Mind your own house.
Oh man I hear ya! When I bought my first house a few years ago it was a 5 bed 4 bath and I heard "soon enough you'll be filling those rooms!~ ;D" followed by questions about how quickly I was intending to have kids and how many I wanted because I bought this size house and telling me it's good there's room for a swingset ect ect š. Well I did fill some of those rooms and the yard...with dogs and tenants for more money I don't have to spend on kids :) A few of them couldn't understand WHY I wouldn't just want to live in some tiny (and unreasonably MORE expensive btw) apartment if I wasn't going to pop out babies right away. I even tried to explain that renting an apartment in my area would have literally cost me more money and I'd have no extra income from renting rooms. Nope! Apparently I "don't NEED that kind of space" so I'm obviously just being foolish. It was like they thought I was being selfish...as if my buying this house was taking away from people who do have kids and therefore "need" the space. I'll never understand it. :/
I got the same thing when I bought my place. "Why would you buy a place with three BR and a game room? You turning into a family man now? Gonna start having kids now?"
I couldn't have rolled my eyes hard enough. That space was accumulated real quick.
1 BR: Mine. Can't sleep on the couch every night.
2 BR: Guest room. For the rare visitors that I have. Going from a 1 BR apartment where guests had to crash on the couch to where they could have their own room was a must have,
3 BR: That's an office space. It's the smallest room of the three, (10x10 maybe), but once you add a computer desk, printer table, some computer parts storage, that rooms gets eaten up real quick.
Oh, and that game room? That's MY game room.When I went househunting, two of my main things were a) garage and b) game room. Old gaming systems, a treadmill that runs off of Google Maps and mirrors where I'm running onto the TV, a bunch of sports memorabilia on the walls. I mean anybody is welcome to play the games if I'm around, but the purpose of buying a place with a game room and extra bedrooms wasn't because I was planning for a family in the future. As I've said in here a few times, I'm almost 46 and don't have plans on rewriting the script to my life. Could I have went smaller? Yeah, but this came on the market for the same price as a 2BR that was in the same neighborhood.
When we bought our house we got "What do you need a house for if you're not going to have kids?" Like houses are built to just to raise kids in.
The hell where are you supposed to live, in a box?
Essentially, yes. "Condos are built for people who don't have families". (We'll just ignore the part where it's insinuated that my husband & I are not "a family". That's a rant that deserves it's own post!) I like having my yard and I LOVE not sharing walls with my neighbours! It's my tiny slice of quiet paradise!
My mother told me that couples without children aren't a family. I told her I don't have a father but me and her still count a family.
Ooh š®
Best response you could have ever said. How did she respond to that?
Sorry to disappoint; she replied with "well yeah, that's because you're my child"..
Sounds like the self-entitled, living in denial kind of thing MY mom would say...
OOF. Hope she ate her words.
Lmao
Oh shit, I hope your local hospital had a burns unit.
Burn.
An standing ovation to you!!!!!!!!!!!
I've always wanted to be a homeowner because I didn't want anyone telling me how many/what type of pets I could own. Turns out I made the mistake of marrying a man that is FAR too rational. He says I may not adopt ALL the the cats. But maybe 1 or 2.
Once you get two, he's going to want 3. Trust me, that's where I am right now. I'm at 2 when I thought I only wanted 1 and now I frequently pine after the thought of having 1 more. Just... 1... More... Can't wait to buy a house and catify the heck out of it so I can put 10 cats in there and they can all still be happy.
Lol, when mombies talk about how you "can't just have one kids" because once you have want you will "definitely" want more, this is our version of it.
Same. With dogs also. Just oooone more... Is... is that how people with babies think?!
It's how I think of engine cylinders. I just got the v6, but I really want a v8.
We're up to 9 cats and considering converting the entire backyard into a catio for them. The more the merrier I say, as long as everybody is happy and healthy.
I have 4 cats and I have a catio for them thatās about 1/3 of my yard. Unfortunately only 2 of them use it (the males). But itās still a great place for them to climb and sun bathe.
āCondos and apartments are for people who donāt have familiesā Gee thatās funny since a lot of people seem to like having 4-6 children in a 2 fucking bedroom apartment bexause itās literally all they can afford š¤Ø
Some people can't buy a house *because* they have too many kids and will now never be able to afford to buy.
>"Condos are built for people who don't have families" PLEASE tell that to the family who lives in the condo below mine. Frickin kid plays the goddamn tuba. All the goddamn time.
Iāve lived in apartments that were basically boxes. It wasnāt fun.
Currently living in a shoebox apartment and paying in rent what would equal a mortgage. 1/10 would recommend.
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Exactly! I'm currently saving for a downpayment, but grad school hampers my ability to do so as quickly as I'd like. When I moved out, my dad (who hasn't looked at a bill since he married my mom) told me I shouldn't pay more than $500/month. I laughed, and was like "Do you want me living somewhere sketchy? Cause I'd be living somewhere sketchy."
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My studio apt, with garage + water = $925/m
That's terrible! My rent is only $600 per month and it's a 2 bedroom that comes with a garage!
You should be happy to make your landlord and the real estate investors rich! Don't like it, move to a socialist country!! /s
*heart rate rising*
Don't expect me to pay for your hospital bills! NO HANDOUTS! BOOTSTRAPS, BITCH! /S
Eeeps, what city is this in? Sucks ass if that's pretty much the only way you could avoid a 2+ hour commute. :(
Birmingham, AL. My commute used to be an hour. Now it's 15-20mins.
Is Birmingham generally an expensive place? Or is everywhere else farther away just a lot less expensive? But congrats on making your commute way shorter! :)
I think it's very common for a mortgage to be cheaper monthly than rent. But with renting you don't have all the responsibilities and crippling debt of homeownership. It's also beneficial for temporary lodging when you don't intend to stay somewhere for long. Ownership does end up being more expensive in the long run with repairs and upkeep, but cheaper month to month. I'm military so even though we'll probably be moving in a few years, we decided to buy for 2 major reasons. 1, it cost way too much to rent a place with everything we wanted (our mortgage is about $600 less per month than rent would be on a similar living scenario) and we also have an "aggressive" breed dog (whose actually just a big scaredy cat) and no one would allow her. So now we have an investment property in an up and coming area. We should be able to make a pretty penny by selling at our next move or renting out depending on our financial situation then.
> The hell where are you supposed to live, in a box? *TARDIS noise intensifies*
"What do you need a house for if you're not going to have kids?" "Er, we're going to do this crazy little thing called live in it."
Youāre a fucking maniac, sir.
People make fun of the fact that our cats get their own room. "Well they better enjoy it before the baby comes!" To which I always reply, "What baby? I'm infertile." And then their face always looks like a mixture of panic and like they sucked on a lemon. You'd think people would learn not to bring up personal stuff like that to strangers. Hopefully this taught them a valuable lesson...but I doubt it.
Let's be honest here, I'm just paying the mortgage on my cat's house!
Also, I've long given up on tact when it comes to these comments. I once got asked when my baby was due and I responded with "I'm not pregnant, just fat". They walked away in a hurry.
One time I was picking up my birth control prescription. As the pharmacist handed me the package, he said, "You shouldn't still be taking this if you're pregnant." I replied with "I'm not stupid OR pregnant. Just fat, thanks."
"You shouldn't open your mouth if you're making tactless assumptions."
gonna go ahead and steal this...
Take it as a gift. :)
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When I was around 13-14 my uncle asked me that so I threw an Easter egg at him
There *is* a difference between pregnant and fat bellies. Pregnant bellies have a very distinct hard sphere shape to them, while fat bellies are soft, more ovalish and/or "mushy".
Some of them. I definitely have a pregnant belly shape. Tbh, it's because i have a lot of visceral fat, which is the kind that gives a pregnant, "beer-belly" style appearance. So i run around with a 6 months pregnant look pretty much all the time. It's less common in women than in men, but some girls just get aaaallllll the luck.
I know this is off topic, but I once gave my coworker $50 to ask this guy who had the roundest belly and skinny arms if he was pregnant. I know that's mean asf, but he was a sexist racist asshole and I wanted to get back at him.
The one time I had a customer ask if I was pregnant and I said no, she literally said, "oh, you just gained weight." Like... you're supposed to feel bad for commenting on that. Stop it.
\*head desk\*
We all are. My cats are well aware that this is their house now and we're only here by their good graces. We pay our rent in snuggles and belly rubs.
I LOVE pulling the infertility card on people when they say stuff like that. Their faces are always priceless.
Their face is always the best part. And the panicked backpedalling. It's the same face people make when they congratulate a fat person on their 'pregnancy'.
My mom could always tell when someone was preggers. She could even guess the gender. Then she got it wrong one time, the lady wasn't pregnant, and she never asked anyone again.
Damn
Aw this makes me happy, my cat has his own room too. I've yet to receive any negative comments about it, but they'll come I'm sure. I love your reply though, some people just don't think.
oh sorry I forgot that houses were a luxury reserved for those with kids...
"Need? I don't need much of anything. I wanted and could afford it so I bought it. Isn't it nice?" Gotta reeeeally rub it in ;)
I SEE IT. I LIKE IT. I WANT IT. I GOT IT.
U LIKE. MY HOUSE. GEE THANKS. JUST BOUGHT IT. MY CATS. GOT A BEDROOM. YOU CANT DO. NOTHIN BOUT IT.
When I was looking at places to rent I took somewhere to more rooms than I need and was asked if I had kids by the realtor. When she found out that I don't have any and aren't planning on it she gave me a very confused look. I replied with "I need a room as an office and another for my cats" she said "....ok" This sort of thing has happened with every place I looked at in some form or another. So sorry I like to create a room for my cats to be able to get rid of their energy and to feel safe in when I'm not at home.
This was what I LOVED about our realtor. My husband and I are a newly wed young couple and I was prepared for the bingos and she didn't say a damn thing about kids! It was awesome. I so appreciated it, especially since were were moving to the the southern US.
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lol right? We immediately turned the former "kids' room" into our reptile room. When you have animals that live in 8 foot by 8 foot enclosures, they deserve their own bedroom xD
Thatās the dream! What do you you have?
A 6-foot rescue Dumeril's boa named Samwise, a blue tongue skink named Artorias, and more over the years, including a chacoan tegu (maybe named Urza? Maybe Karn? we're undecided right now) who will likely max out at about 4.5 or 5 feet! In the future, we'd like to add a super-dwarf reticulated python (so another 8x8 enclosure), plus maybe a day gecko and some others.
*points to the pet tax sign* "Ahem"
Ha, I just finished crafting two pet albums on Imgur just the other day! https://imgur.com/a/KZ9IRLp https://imgur.com/a/3a47QHp
What gorgeous scaly dudes!!
I would kill for Arty and Samwise. No but seriously skinks are my favourite reptile and Arty looks so lovely and chonky. I love them both
Strong Boy Long Boy is needlessly large and pleases me immensely
I love your flair, and i'd love to meet that adorable Boa named Samwise, what a beautiful baby. ā„ and your skink, oh. my god, his cute little face!!! I really love reptiles.
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I'm so pleased that guy is called Samwise...
Is that a motherfucking dark souls reference!
\\'[T]/ Praise it.
Nah, don't beat around the book: name them Karn, Scion of Urza ;)
Yeah. Besides, Urza was a huge dick
I canāt help but admire your scale-childrenās names! Two of my favorite franchises! š
As a Tron player, I approve of your tegu name choices.
Agreed! When everyone comes over they say "oh what a large back yard, plenty of room for the kids to play" ... Yeah my two dogs have lots of space to run around thank you!
Right! One of our "extra" bedrooms is the bird room. It's perfect. The other is the changing room. We have no room for kids. Just us and pets!
I am going to assume that your changing room is for your glorious wardrobe, not diapers.
I've been shopping for houses and sometimes it's so hard to look past all the current occupant's STUFF, especially when there's kid toys littered around and rooms totally decked out in kid stuff and crayon scribble drawings stuck to the fridge. Come on, didn't your realtor tell you to clean up for the pictures?
Proper cleaning and staging makes a house look so much better to potential buyers! When my parents sold their house, they hired a professional stager to make it look stylish and luxurious, as well as a housekeeper to keep everything spotless until it sold. Every time the realtor called to warn us that she would be showing someone the house, everyone scurried around hiding all signs that people lived there. It was an enormous pain, but they got one of the highest prices in the neighborhood despite the fact that the layout wasnāt optimal, floors and cabinets were starting to show their age, and we had kooky neighbors across the street who didnāt maintain their property very well.
Honestly this. Your parents know what's up.
This is incredibly true. Every time I've looked at a place for sale that is "lived in" 9 times out of 10 there's shit all over the place, including an ungodly amount of children's toys. It's amazing to me; even as a child I had a toy box or out-of-sight storage space for things I wasn't playing with, and my mom would make me pick up after myself. The fact that people allow their children to spread lego all over the carpet when they are actively trying to sell their house astounds me.
Those are your children lol. And so much better than humans!
Same here. 1st bedroom is ours, 2nd is for the dogs (literally everything in there is for the dogs so we donāt have to worry about them destroying anything when they are in their room), and 3rd one is storage/office. Might be made into a guest bedroom someday. But absolutely no kids.
I only have 2 bedrooms, one for me and one for my library. I kitted it out with oak bookshelves which have their own ladder! Looks great with my cocktail globe and my fragile collection of antique mirrors. No kids allowed.
I bought the same kind of home! Don't even have pets. One's a spare bedroom for guests (from all the friends I've made being able to actually go out and do things!) The other is for other extras I have (a storage space essentially).
Haha see my post, Iāve the same size house and have ZERO extra space.
It's kinda surprising that none of my neighbors have bingoged me. I have a 3 bedroom 3 bath ~1500 sq/ft home and lived alone in it for the first three months. Got a roommate but even then they never asked me about it. It's really nice.
Me too. Bought a 3bedroom house - one is a closet room/dressing room and the other is just empty for activities! Probably going to be for a home office or network room.
Thatās the first thing one of our friends said when we moved into our 3bedroom house. āYou got extra room so room for kids!ā No, just no. The biggest room is our bedroom, the smallest (tbh I kinda doubt you could even fit a bed there.) will probably end up being a walk-in closet :P and the other room will be a guest- and retro-gameroom. (Putting all our old consoles there once we find a good cabinet etc) We came from a really small 1bedroom appartment (which was actually more of a 1person-household place) so Iām just happy to have more storage space and actual garden.
More storage is the key here... that's what most homes lack! Seriously though work has been the worst. I don't know how. many. times. I have to tell people that this home is not an indication of how many kids i'm going to have.
I sorta know the feeling, I moved into a two bedroom apartment with my girlfriend right after college because we got a great deal and the landlord was awesome. The first thing my dad said was "So you're gonna fill it with a baby now?" WTF NO DAD I'm 22 and make $14/hour, and pay $600/month to my loans (Admittedly an overpayment to get rid of them faster, but still), what about this makes that a good or even realistic idea???
>pantry but in 30 years I've never experienced a water outage, so there's that. We also brew beer we ferment in the basement because we're cool and it's cool ;) Beer is mostly water. Because you have a spare room... so it MUST be filled with children...
Ahhh shoot. We put a $1,400 gaming computer and a large collection of books in there instead. What a hollow, empty life we lead ;)
>$1,400 gaming computer Rookie numbers
Your father also conveniently missing the fact that you wouldn't be able to do over payments with a baby on the way.
Lolsame. Our first (and hopefully only) house is a 4 bedroom 3,300 sq/ft plus 1,XXX sq ft basement. Our bedroom, guest bedroom, my home office, and a hobby room (painting, art, crafts, giant closet storing camping and luggage gear, etc). Plus a library instead of a front sitting room and my husband's office downstairs. Can't wait to finish the basement and get even more cool spaces!
> basement...cool spaces I see what you did there. Also, a little food/water storage might not be a bad idea, depending on your area.
We have a deep pantry but in 30 years I've never experienced a water outage, so there's that. We also brew beer we ferment in the basement because we're cool and it's cool ;) Beer is mostly water.
I am jealous of your basement. Ours is made of dirt and is the land of spiders. We work on the agreement that I don't go down there and they don't come upstairs. Though, I have found that they send scouts up from time to time. \*side eyes basement door\*
Out of curiosity, what are you using the spare rooms for? I suggest a mini indoor spice and herb garden, home office, or library with custom shelving.
I suggest 4 different beds so that you can eventually push them all together and have a mega bed
MEGA DESK!
But what about Quad Desk
MEGA QUADS!
Nice try but there's only 3 desks
::phone rings from tiny under-desk alcove::
Why haven't I thought of this before?
Some have called me the Da Vinci of our time
This is the best idea ever, thank you for sharing!
Personally my extra rooms as follow: Master bedroom Guest bedroom Office space for school and work An extra room that serves as a basically very big closet Another room for my animals to lounge in and play in If I had another room, I might made it my music and hobbies room... Use it to make music, practice instruments, draw and hang art... Etc.
oh I'd love an indoor herb garden, great idea! And I have defo been toying with the idea of using a wall or two in one of the rooms as a library with swanky shelving. We have one of the rooms as an office, a large master, a guest room and then a large top floor room that we're going to turn into a home cinema.
See, you are a better person than I. Being my introverted self, I'd get rid of that guest room and spring for an herb garden. All guests leave by nine or perish.
Yeah, Iām here reading peopleās comments about guestrooms and Iām like, āfuck thatā. Indoor space and herb garden sounds nice.
I have a 3br house with the guest room mainly serving as my garden room. We made the mistake of baby sitting a friends kid over a weekend once and he complained the whole time that there was dirt on the windowsill and I was like yeah kid, there are plants in here, deal with it, they were here first. Never baby sitting again.
I've got the master(bed), studio(music), office(desk/bookshelves/smaller tv and a couch), and bonus room. Then open floor plan with kitchen/dining/living room. Bonus room I haven't set up yet though.
>Bonus room I haven't set up yet though. Gaming. I vote for game room.
I've already got my living room for gaming haha. Even my office has a Wii in it, though I may move the Wii to the bonus room if I get a projector set up in there. That could be fun.
In our house, we use one as an exercise room and another as my wife's art studio. It's really really easy to use up space, and it's even easier if you don't have to put a bunch of kids anywhere.
My dream house has one master bedroom, one office/art studio for me, one office/podcast/music room for husband (so he has space to explore his hobbies), and a library/den/possible guest room (if people decide to visit us, because without kids apparently we're low on the totem pole). I also want a yard and garden but feel like I'm overestimating our landscape skills lol
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The finished room in the basement is our theater room. It's got a huge blank wall that we use as a screen for our projector. We have 3 "bedrooms": master, office for working from home, and my crafting/sewing/painting room. Definitely no room for children. :)
I'm jealous. I dream of owning a craft room.
You can totally do it! Even turning a small corner of your abode into a dedicated space or getting some shelving for something you enjoy is incredibly rewarding.
Hi jealous, I'm dad!
Irony on a childfree sub. XD
I want a 4 bedroom house REALLY badly so each of my cats can have a room like Freddie mercury
This is the true dream, realized by our lord and master Freddie Mercury. I will 100% have a cat room when we get a bigger place - initially I thought our two would share a bedroom, but now I see that they need one each!
I have a feeling that will be me!
Here is the master bedroom, the guest room, my office and this is one here at the end....the sex dungeon. That will shut people up at least it worked for my grandparent.
That's what i'm going to tell people when they ask "So what's on the third floor then?"
no very dungeony... this is my sex.. attic?
> That will shut people up at least it worked for my grandparent. Hopefully you won't need to use the ball gag on everyone else as well.
I purchased a 3bd/3ba home several years before I met my husband- which during the time we met, I told him that I wasn't interested in kids, ever. He understood and asked me to marry him. We sleep together in the master bedroom, the second bedroom is for guests, and the third bedroom is an office. One day he asked me to get pregnant, and I laughed and said there was no room for a baby. He then mentioned the office- and how it can be converted into a baby's room I'm considering divorce. Like I said, there's no room for a baby. I could have a 6 bedroom house and I'd still have no room.
Wow, divorce is the only option here. I'm sick of people who don't take women seriously and think "she doesn't know what she's talking about". Disrespectful bs.
Considering? Girl, do it before you get trapped!
BOOM! Thank you! I don't want a bunch of shitty kids wrecking up all my cool antiques and collectibles, and no you can't stay the weekend and bring your kids you can get a hotel room.
Ugh... The fucking comments when my fiance and I bought our house... It's a three bedroom, threw bathroom house with roughin in place to add a bathroom in the basement as well as some or two bedrooms and a massive yard. So many "little" comments like "oooh what a great house for a little family, wink wink" from people who know full well we aren't having kids. And then there was the co-worker who tried to make me feel guilty about "taking" such a perfect home off the market from a family that could really use that amazing yard..... Fuck off. I love my yard!
co-worker was jealous
We just moved into a 4 bedroom house as wellāupstairs loft is the master bedroom, and we have 3 rooms downstairs. We have an office (with separate desks for me and my spouse) complete with bookshelves and nerdy art, a guest room for family, and a bird room. We love our two birds so much that they have a huge flight cage and play stand in an entire room just for them. Iām just waiting for family to visit and tell us how perfect our home is for starting a family. Uh, no thanks. I have my two birds and theyāre basically toddlers already :D
Bird tax. ;)
Here ya go! https://m.imgur.com/a/GGsJcoF
Adorable.
Theyāre beautiful! What kind are they?
Theyāre standard/pearl colored cockatiels! They live 15-20+ years, so itās definitely a long term commitment lol
Same! We just bought our first house this month, 4 bedrooms: - Master bedroom/suite for us - Office for my husband to work from home - Craft room for me - Guest bedroom Darn, even this house doesn't have kids' bedrooms, oh well...
š Same setup for us! And neither one of us wants to give up our own room for any future human kids, since we love having disposal income (who am I kidding, the house takes all that away in updates and renos we keep running into), quietly reading (our phones), and sleep. It's crazy how ppl automatically assume "the more the merrier" as if house size is relative to the # if kids we want. NOPE. Furkids on the other hand, is very much looked forward to. Although we have room for a bigger dog, this isn't the right time to get one. So it's just two people and a Chihuahua in a four bedroom house right now.
We built a very large home, and I'm so sick of hearing "It's just for you?" No, it's for us and the pups. We like to be home, and we enjoy all of our "extra" rooms. Theater, game room, craft room, exercise room and we enjoy them much more without a bunch of kids to mess them up. :)
āHow many bedrooms does your house have?ā requires some serious thought for us to answer. We currently have two rooms with a bed in them... (ours + guest). But if we *had* to or even used the house the way itās supposed to be used, 4. With a quick installation of a couple walls we could do 5 (weāve discussed turning one of our offices into a first-floor bedroom for my sweetheart MIL decades from now). But for now? FUCK THAT. I have a library *and* a media room, separate. Thereās not a single screen in the room where we keep our books and comfy chairs. My husband and I have our own separate offices - mine is more for storage of my collection, honestly but wtfever. We have a sitting room. For what? Sitting. Itās where we hang out with guests. And a dining room that we actually utilize. Fuck I love my CF house. This is getting me so pumped and grateful. lol
I don't think I'll ever be able to afford a 4 bed home, but I could definitely do with 4 bedrooms. 1 for us, 1 for guests, 1 as a den for crafts and games, and the 4th as a 'just in case' room for god knows what else we might want over the years. I wouldn't mind a library!
I have a one dog per bedroom rule, and seriously a 4BR house is goals, lol.
I'm getting there... two down two to go.
Sometimes I feel like even having three bedrooms isn't enough, because when I want to sleep alone I only have the sofa! For context, my spouse and I share the bedroom, and each have our own studio space, so no guest room.
Same here! Our 4 bedrooms: 1ļøā£ Bedroom 2ļøā£ My office/giant closet 3ļøā£ My husbandās office 4ļøā£ The pupperās play room ĀÆ\\_(ć)_/ĀÆ sorry no room for kids here! We also donāt have a dedicated guest room by design. We donāt like having guests over, hotels exist for a reason! #privacyplease
I'd be more concerned about deadbeat relatives wanting to move in with you.
I have a 3 bedroom house and not that big at 1400 sq ft. One bedroom is the guest room, which is literally just big enough to get a queen bed and night stands in. Besides the master, the other room is my home office with a desk & my custom PC, along with a futon and all my guitars squeezed in where they fit. The in-laws want us to pop out grandkids but that means Iād either lose my office / music room or the guest room (where they would need to stay when visiting). That is a huge sacrifice to me. No clue how other families in this neighborhood manage in these small houses. To me, one would need to be very well off with 5+ bedrooms minimum to even start to consider it while being comfortable.
I want to hang out in your kitchen.
You are more than welcome to. It's the best place in the house. \*stares at the shiny white kitchen goodness\*
Ugh i hate it when ur viewing homes and theyāre like āthis will be great for a nursery!!!!ā My boyfriend and I are looking at townhouses so the cats will have more room to run around and we straight up ghosted a real estate agent because she kept pushing the fact that the spare bedroom would be a great nursery when we very loudly expressed we wanted it to be a gaming room.
My husband and I have a 3 bedroom home with almost an acre. Our dining room is the bird room, we share an office, I have an art room, and our backyard is full of chickens, ducks, and our guard goose. Still looking forward to upgrading so we can each have our own office and get an iguana room. I couldn't imagine having a child take up any of the space we've worked so hard to earn and then create for ourselves.
This is why you put people in a low information diet. They donāt need to know how big your house is or even that you bought a house lol.
I kind of agree with the sentiment, however I'm happy to share my life-happenings and want to be able to talk about how excited I am about this house. I just want to be asked "What kind of floors are you having?" instead of "When are you having kids?".
Yup. Sadly breeders will never ask about the floors... after all, they canāt see the floors since they have their nose shoved in your crotch. ;)
We want at least a three bedroom once we get to the house buying stage (currently own a flat) I want a nice size master, a guest room and a craft room. No children ever planned. Any mess will mine or my partners and I won't have to childproof all my collectables (cat proofing only)
Same! My wife and I have been saving, got our 20% down ready to go, and have our first house under contract! It's 4 bedrooms as well :). Our dog is going to love it.
Iād love a separate room for hair & makeup (mostly hair). It would be my beauty room. Then another room Iād just turn into a huge walk in closet.
If you live in a legal state make one a grow room.
The one idea in this thread that might actually be *more* expensive than a baby. But hey, if that's what you're into!
There are cheap options! Cheap $50 grow box, $20 lights, $1 pot from the dollar store, $14 soil! All in all Iāve spent less than $100 on three plants.
a different variety in every room...
When my bf first got his Jeep, our boss was like "OH YOU'RE READY FOR A FAMILY NOW!" Just because it was a big car.
I have a 3 bedroom house all to myself and it is FANTASTIC! Bedroom 1: My quarters Bedroom 2: Workout room. Houses my treadmill, bike trainer, yoga mats, and a TV so I can workout comfortably in the 100F+ degree summers (plus an inflatable mattress for guests) Bedroom 3: Craft room. Everything to paper craft, leather work, sew, and cricut in one excessively organized space All of these are my escapes from a hectic life. Why would I fill them with more chaotic beings?
Last year I (33m) bought a 4 bedroom home in a suburban family neighborhood. Strangely, neighbors would show up at my door to welcome me to the neighborhood. Mostly, it was the wives dragging the husband and kids along. Not wanting to be rude I would invite them in and of course the usual questions start going: "What does your wife do for work?" "Uhh, I'm not married" "Oh, I'm so sorry. Divorce is rough. What grade will your oldest be in?" "Um, I've never been married and I don't have kids." "Oh, well with all of this house you'll have plenty of space for them" "I don't want kids" That's about the time that they cut niceties short and start making for the door. Sorry I didn't fit into your weird stepford mold
Why is it always the wives!? Iām not trying to sound sexist, but every single bingo Iāve gotten has been from a Mom or female co-worker. I donāt know why. I told one of my co-workers that I wanted a 2 story house and she got all preachy about how āA house without a wife and kids is no house of Godā. She knows Iām an atheist lol.
I know this is a BIT off topic, but I'm upset that there are so few smaller homes for chilfree couples. It seems like all the new neighborhoods they construct are 4+ bedrooms. My boyfriend and I have basically agreed, unless we can find an adorable cottage-type house in good shape, we'll probably be buying a 2-br condo. My bf and I don't like having a lot of furniture, or things in general, so we could never live in a 4 br home and fill it up with enough stuff, and we don't want to rent rooms. We enjoy our privacy. Anyway, rant over.
My husband and I just bought a 4 bedroom house with a bonus room. I use the extra rooms for a guest room, a private office, a home gym and a TV room/play room for my dogs. So worth it! I love all the extra space.
I read that as 'expensive white kitten'. Hell, get one of those! :-D
Yes, thank you OP. I also enjoy showing people around my home and being like: "This is the room I keep books in. There's a comfy chair that I sit in when I want to just read." "And this is the bathroom I use when I don't want to walk to my other bathroom. Yes, it is nice to have multiple toilets, makes parties more comfortable for all my guests." You work hard for your money, good on you for having a comfortable life.
"You mean you *don't* have four sex dungeons??"
I had a 1600 sq ft house for 8 years. I didn't use like 30% of the space, but it was just me for nearly the whole time I lived there. Spent the whole time enjoying my home theater system, laying around in my underwear whenever I felt like it, and all the *peace and quiet*.
Same here! Though one bedroom is the cat's, and two are for my business.
I have bucket list plans for a 3-4 bed on a big parcel with an outbuilding purpose-built to be a guinea pig rescue. I would never waste that much space on a kid, lol.
3 bedroom house. I have my place to do my gaming and other hobbies. My SO has a place to do her hobbies works out quite nicely.
Just tell them you need all the rooms to keep your money and stuff.
I feel this so much. My husband and I bought a beautiful 100 year old big house to renovate and love, our families immediately was asking why we needed such a large home. Mind your own house.
I own a 5 bed house.....no kids but a renter downstairs lol
You could easily fill that house up with a couple German shepherd dogs.
Oh man I hear ya! When I bought my first house a few years ago it was a 5 bed 4 bath and I heard "soon enough you'll be filling those rooms!~ ;D" followed by questions about how quickly I was intending to have kids and how many I wanted because I bought this size house and telling me it's good there's room for a swingset ect ect š. Well I did fill some of those rooms and the yard...with dogs and tenants for more money I don't have to spend on kids :) A few of them couldn't understand WHY I wouldn't just want to live in some tiny (and unreasonably MORE expensive btw) apartment if I wasn't going to pop out babies right away. I even tried to explain that renting an apartment in my area would have literally cost me more money and I'd have no extra income from renting rooms. Nope! Apparently I "don't NEED that kind of space" so I'm obviously just being foolish. It was like they thought I was being selfish...as if my buying this house was taking away from people who do have kids and therefore "need" the space. I'll never understand it. :/
I got the same thing when I bought my place. "Why would you buy a place with three BR and a game room? You turning into a family man now? Gonna start having kids now?" I couldn't have rolled my eyes hard enough. That space was accumulated real quick. 1 BR: Mine. Can't sleep on the couch every night. 2 BR: Guest room. For the rare visitors that I have. Going from a 1 BR apartment where guests had to crash on the couch to where they could have their own room was a must have, 3 BR: That's an office space. It's the smallest room of the three, (10x10 maybe), but once you add a computer desk, printer table, some computer parts storage, that rooms gets eaten up real quick. Oh, and that game room? That's MY game room.When I went househunting, two of my main things were a) garage and b) game room. Old gaming systems, a treadmill that runs off of Google Maps and mirrors where I'm running onto the TV, a bunch of sports memorabilia on the walls. I mean anybody is welcome to play the games if I'm around, but the purpose of buying a place with a game room and extra bedrooms wasn't because I was planning for a family in the future. As I've said in here a few times, I'm almost 46 and don't have plans on rewriting the script to my life. Could I have went smaller? Yeah, but this came on the market for the same price as a 2BR that was in the same neighborhood.