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I've never liked basements, no matter how fancy they are fixed up.
I'd rather have a tree house than a cave,
a rooftop than the fanciest hole,
my ashes strewn on hill, no grave,
I'd rather be a homeless bird than richest mole.
posted by
TAPS.
on December 29, 2014 at 7:17 PM
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Taps dear....
You make that attic sound so tempting...I can imagine leaving such a house to a daughter and she would spend hours sorting and giving some things around the family and throwing, but mainly keeping and adding to over her own lifetime.
We don't tend to have attics in Australia and just as well we don't have one here for who would follow us?
Our Pat could turn this into a story...you could write it into a poem oh and where is your Haiku?????
posted by
Kabu
on December 29, 2014 at 6:27 PM
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I never did use any of the attics where I lived. For my sister and I, it was the basement.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on December 29, 2014 at 5:00 PM
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I am one who gives away all that I have no place for. I do have an attic and I love having it but it has little more than Christmas decorations in it. We gave a local church four large wholesle tomato boxes full of books and it is difficult to miss them. I used to have yard sales but now I give it away as soon as it piles up at all. I must say I do miss some of it once in a whie, not often.
posted by
Justi
on December 29, 2014 at 2:19 PM
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Well, some people make good uses of their attics, and others 'abuse' them, throwing this and that up there until it looks like Fred Sanford's frontyard! Our home doesn't have an attic per se, but we have a series of 'crawl spaces' instead that basically perform the same task. What exactly is in them right now I really couldn't say . . . 
posted by
JimmyA
on December 29, 2014 at 12:50 PM
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really an attic, but just the crawl space above the upstairs ceiling. Anyway, when we remodeled the kitchen, a strange nest fell through - baby squirrel, eyes barely open. The boys got out a doll's bottle, fed it milk, even though I told them we should take it to a wildlife rescue place because we're not equipped to train him in squirrelhood. He was a couple months old, the boys were playing with him on the deck when a cat flashed up over the rail, snatched it and was across the yard and out of sight behind the garage before the kids could get up out of the lawn chair.
The boys, they swore revenge on the cat,
but it was never seen in our yard after that.
posted by
Pat_B
on December 29, 2014 at 11:35 AM
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Well my attic is covered in glass wool to help insulate the house, but it feels cold up there,but I know what you mean, things you don't want to give away and yet don't need.
posted by
C_C_T
on December 29, 2014 at 11:34 AM
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Attics - at least mine was once - a home for squirrels. Perhaps it wasn't
posted by
Pat_B
on December 29, 2014 at 11:31 AM
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We have trouble getting rid of stuff.
posted by
Amanda__
on December 29, 2014 at 11:15 AM
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TAPS
Pity, ain't it? It's probably for the same reason they rarely have basements...
posted by
Nautikos
on December 29, 2014 at 10:13 AM
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Just have one of your intrepid lads get out the keyhole saw...
The upstairs neighbors won't complain if you agree to letting them have a basement.
posted by
Ciel
on December 29, 2014 at 7:13 AM
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