Post #2240146
2025-06-29 06:52 UTC
Replies (20)
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@jessta@aus.social 2025-06-29 07:01
@perkinsy@aus.social I'm kind of surprised that someone would buy a house without having a look under it first.
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@Laberpferd@sueden.social 2025-06-29 09:08
@perkinsy@aus.social i was in a past life a TV and HiFi service guy, and i am not surprised about that story, know the concept of "taboo rooms" It happens when old people die andor when family forces that someone has to end his passion Often then such personal rooms are cleared out and the collection just trashed, sometimes instead the door gets forever locked up, frowned to talk about, walls built over doors to make the room invisible and out of existence
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@cobalt123@beige.party 2025-06-29 09:21
@perkinsy@aus.social @spiegelmama@infosec.exchange Incredible! My grandfather built a large train set in the basement of a home in Paletine Illinois maybe around 1957 or so. It was one that was a scale model but I forget what it was. The local hobby club came to visit and a newspaper did a story on it. But an odd thing is I never saw it or heard about it again. My grandfolks lived there maybe 16 years until my grandmother died. After that my grandfather quickly sold the home and moved. There is no one left in the family who was old enough to remember it. Spooky memory?
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@rdm@aus.social 2025-06-29 09:36
@perkinsy@aus.social Pinging @Steveg58@aus.social
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@samwilson@wikis.world 2025-06-29 09:52
@perkinsy@aus.social "Coincidentally, Xu is a train enthusiast." 😃
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@ecoscore@aus.social 2025-06-29 10:33
@perkinsy@aus.social Almost like a fairy tale for #foamers 😀
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@mherbert@social.chinwag.org 2025-06-29 11:10
@perkinsy@aus.social as per another thread - I was saddened the article didn't mention the creator of the layout
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@Steveg58@aus.social 2025-06-29 11:18
@perkinsy@aus.social Cool! Even an ancient Triang transformer/controller by the looks of it.
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@fraser@aus.social 2025-06-29 11:22
@perkinsy@aus.social @mike@social.chinwag.org 1) Wow 2) Somewhat mediocre job at pre purchase inspection(s) all round if this was a surprise 3) I am sure I had that grey controller with the red knob when I was very young.
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@katnjiapus@twoot.site 2025-06-29 11:51
@perkinsy@aus.social @TicklishHoneyBee@twoot.site is this your doing? :blobCatGiggle:
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@vxo@digipres.club 2025-06-29 11:59
@perkinsy@aus.social That's called HIDDEN TREASURE <3
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@Maker_of_Things@cupoftea.social 2025-06-29 12:54
@perkinsy@aus.social This sets a precedent for me to leave a whole 1990s electrical wholesale shop set up in our basement when we sell!
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@lolcat@digipres.club 2025-06-29 13:09
@perkinsy@aus.social
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@virtuous_sloth@cosocial.ca 2025-06-29 13:20
@perkinsy@aus.social Wait, do houses in Australia not normally have a basement? "Under the floor"?
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@flyingsaceur@ioc.exchange 2025-06-29 13:59
@perkinsy@aus.social “The Tracks of Amontillado”
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@farah@beige.party 2025-06-29 13:59
@perkinsy@aus.social What is he complaining about??
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@Sylvhem@eldritch.cafe 2025-06-29 15:44
@perkinsy@aus.social This is amazing.
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@Dhmspector@mastodon.social 2025-06-29 15:53
@perkinsy@aus.social this story needs some many more pictures.. and the whole back story of the builder. What a wonderful thing to have received.
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@GalbinusCaeli@mastodon.social 2025-06-29 17:39
@perkinsy@aus.social our house just came with piles of horseshoes in the cellar. And no, there are no horse stables for many kilometers (Repost after noticing that autocorrect had changed "horseshoes" to "horses")
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@PiiiepsBrummm@chaos.social 2025-06-29 18:24
@perkinsy@aus.social Damn. I only found asbestos.