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Yes, there's a big difference between need and want. It is the job of advertisers and marketeers to try to convince us that our wants are in fact needs. They are doing a bang-up job of this.
It is our job to understand what is truly a need and what is merely a want and to make our decisions mindfully in light of this knowledge. I don't think most people are doing such a great job of that.
I see a lot of 1960s/1970s houses for sale that have been immaculately kept since they were new, some even still have the original appliances that also look new. It would be very hard for me to buy a house like that, where someone has worked hard to keep it perfect for over 50 years, and then gut it.
I see a lot of 1960s/1970s houses for sale that have been immaculately kept since they were new, some even still have the original appliances that also look new. It would be very hard for me to buy a house like that, where someone has worked hard to keep it perfect for over 50 years, and then gut it.
Then if you want to renovate, just buy a house like mine, where the cabinets have been painted and are in bad shape mechanically, the appliances aren't original and/or don't work, and the bathrooms are in similarly bad shape with shower pan and drain leaks. Trust me there's no shortage.
Then if you want to renovate, just buy a house like mine, where the cabinets have been painted and are in bad shape mechanically, the appliances aren't original and/or don't work, and the bathrooms are in similarly bad shape with shower pan and drain leaks. Trust me there's no shortage.
I own four houses now, and all were in rough shape to begin with.
Some of those Hollywood Hills homes and other places where the lot and location has skyrocketed means the old house has to go. It almost makes me cry to see these incredible places, very family and usable, go but it's their money, and new money gets what it wants.
Or I can buy it and save it, and that does happen occasionally.
This is from one of the comments, but it's a comment we've all seen variations of:
"You may call a 60s era kitchen "authentic," but what I may see is a functionally obsolete, physically worn out room. That’s why I ripped the kitchen out of the house I live in now. The kitchen didn’t work – functionally or mechanically."
Why on earth do they say "the kitchen doesn't work"?
Did they put a chicken in the oven and car parts came out?
Was there a hidden trapdoor in the floor that dropped them into the basement when they tried to cook? Were the cabinets doors glued shut?
I understand the concept of "worn out" and "hard on the eyes". I've had the failing cabinet hinges, the stove with pre-historic layers of hardened lava, and the refrigerator that ran too often while sounding like a vacuum cleaner, gouges in the countertop and floor, and so on. But worn out doesn't mean "didn't work". The food prepared there tasted like food I fixed anywhere else.
Like the popcorn ceiling is a big no, no now! whatever I'm keeping mine...
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