That's it, Matt! Creepy.
Did you grow up with basements? Finished ones?
Yes, and no. Keep in mind, I only remember growing up in the one place.
Saffron: But we've been wed. Aren't we to become one flesh? Mal: Well, no, uh... We're still two fleshes here, and I think that your flesh ought to sleep somewhere else.
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Natter 64: Yes, we still need you
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jesse - Aug 29, 2009 6:11:52 pm PDT #6139 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
sarameg - Aug 29, 2009 6:16:23 pm PDT #6140 of 30001
I didn't grow up with basements. My grandparents had them; one creepy and one not. I have very definite opinions on them. As in, I have nightmares that wake me up yelling. Thankfully, my basement is not creepy. I couldn't have bought it if it was, my reactions are that bad.
Fires=scary. I can get the initial temptation not to leave because really, does this happen (but I have more warning, I'm thinking hurricanes) but...then I read up on Mt Stromlo and NO.
billytea - Aug 29, 2009 6:18:03 pm PDT #6141 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
In my apartment block in Philly, I didn't find the laundry room to be creepy, but it was still cold, poorly lit and ill-provisioned, and a ludicrous distance from my apartment. I feel very comfortable with my current stance of refusing to live anywhere without a laundry and a dishwasher. (My apartment in Ivanhoe had a European-style laundry, which is perfectly acceptable.)
Zenkitty - Aug 29, 2009 6:18:42 pm PDT #6142 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
What is a European-style laundry?
billytea - Aug 29, 2009 6:23:17 pm PDT #6143 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Fires=scary. I can get the initial temptation not to leave because really, does this happen (but I have more warning, I'm thinking hurricanes) but...then I read up on Mt Stromlo and NO.
In the fires early this year around Melbourne, many people decided to stay and defend their homes, and wound up dying in their cars trying to flee once they saw how bad it was. However, it seems Emergency Services was negligent in not advising people of the extent of the danger.
Bec's farm was threatened by fire when she was growing up. Her parents opted to stay, with all their kids, and try to protect the place. It burned out some of their acreage, but they were very fortunate that it didn't reach the house. Seriously terrifying for small children.
billytea - Aug 29, 2009 6:24:46 pm PDT #6144 of 30001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
What is a European-style laundry?
Instead of getting its own room, it was set into a cupboard area. Saves on space.
Zenkitty - Aug 29, 2009 6:26:57 pm PDT #6145 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Oh! Why, I have one of those! Wouldn't call a space big enough to fit a full-size W/D a "cupboard", though. It's a, um, "laundry nook".
Kat - Aug 29, 2009 6:34:58 pm PDT #6146 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Like a harry potter sized cupboard maybe.
We didn't have a finished basement at all. The basement was where all the stuff went and we would occasionally play down there. My dad had a workshop, there was food storage including a chest freezer and the sewing machine was there, along with the washer and dryer.
But Ohio is damp and so even with a dehumidifier it was damp down there.
§ ita § - Aug 29, 2009 6:36:26 pm PDT #6147 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
A friend of K's has to evacuate, but is considering not doing it because her house is "all I've got."
Is her staying going to save the house?
Kat - Aug 29, 2009 6:38:10 pm PDT #6148 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
ita, of course not. It's not like her presence bestows some magical Save-The-House power. I think it's idiotic.