Out of all the places you have lived, where was your least favorite ??

@4meAndyou How did you keep from getting electrocuted???

@cherokeepatti Apparently the plugs were up above the water line...but going ankle deep into that filthy water...and then holding your breath as you pulled your clothes out of the dryer praying that none of your CLEAN dry clothes fall in the filthy water...😱😱😱

@4meAndyou That is horrible. Should have had a sump pump to pull that water out continuously.

@cherokeepatti Just before I moved out, the unemployed drugged up owner of the house started digging a French drain all round the outside of the building, and once that had been dug, the basement started to drain. However, once the basement was a bit more dry, the skunks moving in through the basement door that wouldn't close became a horrible stinky problem.

@4meAndyou Good grief.

@4meAndyou yes, i lived in nys all my life 74 years

@cherokeepatti Yup. When I moved into THIS apartment, RIGHT afterward, it smelled like stinky rotten potatoes, and I was absolutely undeterred because I had LIVED in such a horrible stink hole and had survived. I found the particle board in the bottom of the kitchen storage closet was what stank, so I painted it with acrylic paint, and the smell disappeared!

@4meAndyou Sounds like you could have used an air purifier. I’d be worried about black mold.

@oldguy73 Obviously you must have adapted. I know that would be hard for some of us to do.

@cherokeepatti I checked for black...there was none. Just the stink...and the acrylic paint REALLY sealed it in.

@4meAndyou I had a hard time adjusting to a lot of things in Oklahoma after moving down south here. Scorpions, large stinging red ants, copperheads, goat-head sand burrs, it’s windy more than the other states I’ve lived in, it gets humid-hot here in the summer, copperhead snakes were thick out in the rural area that we lived…And with this being south of the Mason-Dixon Line it seemed that there were a lot more racists…the same people who would tell me that I was going to hell if I didn’t join their church would openly make fun of Blacks, Asians, American Indians, etc. And the red dirt seemed pretty but it stained up clothes and shoes. Nobody builds homes with basements because the type of soil here causes them to flood. So when tornado season came around I’d start having nightmares about trying to hide from tornadoes before we ever got a warning in the spring.

@cherokeepatti Sandburs. I remember those from Nebraska, when I was a kid. They were absolutely awful. And I remember that my grandparents houses had root cellars, for storage of jams and jellies and things, but no one would go down into them anymore because they were filled with snakes.

@4meAndyou A lot of homes in Nebraska, Kansas and Missouri had either a cellar or a basement. We had a cellar on the farm, had shelves on one wall to hold the home-canned jars of food, a cot for us kids to lay on when a storm was coming, and my uncle would bring the lantern and light it while were in it. One summer my sister was about 4 years old and walked down into the cellar and walked back out with a salamander on her shoulder. A black one with yellow spots.

@cherokeepatti We just wouldn't go down into my grandmother's root cellar on the farm. When there was a tornado, we would all pile into my grandfather's car, and he would drove us to the potato pit, and drive down into it. Then we were all told not to get out of the car because of the snakes.

@4meAndyou That seems like a good way to get shelter. You are safe inside your car in an underground shelter like that. I have never seen a potato pit, must have been huge for a car to fit inside of it.

@cherokeepatti Yup. My grandfather used my Uncles as sharecroppers, and I still remember seeing the potatoes in the fields.