I take it you have quite a few listings for roach-infested homes in rough neighborhoods.

News2Me… no but I have buyers who look for “deals.” I won’t take listings like that. Make my skin crawl!

Uh, we had one of those lights in the dressing area between the walk-in closet and the master bath. It never occurred to me to think of it as a boob light. ours wasn’t a $9.95 box store special, either but still. You and Evil Amy are just sex-obsessed, that’s all.

We probably filled forty feet of trailers with stuff before we ever showed the house.

You know what’s on MY ceiling…
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I have boob lights all over my house. But, if even slightly entertained the idea of selling, we wouldn’t have decorated with such “whimsy” as we did.

A flipper would be absolutely horrified at our house. I have a strict rule: no flippers can enter our house. Fluffers? maybe.

Did I just say that?

What is a “boob light”?

Not only do we have a couple of boob lights, but Sabrina even has a leg lamp. When I am home we also have an ass in the house.

Never mind, I googled. I found this blog entry and thought it was funny:

“Well, when you have a newborn in the house, the significance of the Boob Light becomes even more apparent. […]

“This is my son. This is my son’s reaction to seeing the Boob Light. Every time. One of the Boob Lights is over his changing table in the nursery. If his eyes are open, he will break into a huge smile upon seeing the Boob Light. It doesn’t matter if he has been crying and fussy seconds prior, the Boob Light is like some kind of inside joke that never fails to bring a huge (adolescent?) grin to his face.”

My favorite from my house hunting adventure was the one whose owners didn’t think it necessary to pick up the many unpleasant landmines their very large dog left in pretty much every room in the house.

Eventually, I will be replacing the boob lights in the bedrooms in my condo (they were put their by the builder) with ceiling fans/lights.

Just haven’t gotten around to it yet. When I noticed it shortly after I moved it, it REALLY gave me the creeps.

Upstate NY homeowners bring the serious quirk. The installed toilet directly at the top of the stairs that you had to step over to enter the second floor? Yep. The door that they’d hung a picture on to try to pretend it was a wall — the one that les to a basement with standing water 18 inches deep? Yep. The place with furnace pieces laying all over the basement, where one could see the piano leg sticking down through the floorboards? Or how about the trashed foreclosure with the motorcycle handlebars still stuck in the drywall of the bathroom?

I looked at a lot of really crappy houses before I found one that I liked. My house is way too old for boob lights.

Bridgett:

Please, go easy; you’re talking about some of my neighbors! Upstate NY is a wonder. Never, before moving here, did I see double wides with lean-to (mostly lean-on) additions, the vinyl peeling off the original, cords of wood in the yard (a woodstove having replaced the long kaput propane furnace and enormous piles of trash–with a brand new 4×4 complete with a trailer and a coupld of skidoos.

My house is a wreck at the moment. But, then it was mostly wrecked when I bought it. I’m getting ready to jack the center back to level and then I can start re-installing stairs, walls, etc. What’s genuinely sad is that folks up here refuse to paint their houses or repair their roofs because they don’t want the assessor to raise their homes’ values.

I looked at a few of the sorts of houses you described. One had numerous LP’s (a quaint sort of audio recording device) lodged in the walls–whoever put them there had some serious “pissed-off”.

Janet Jackson lights is more like it. But I agree with Jim, that would have never occurred to me either. I’m fearing that someone’s going to be inspired to start a phallic symbol thread.

ned, I’m sure Aunt B is working on a phallic light switch prototype as we speak.

I would model for it, but I don’t want people to have to use the tweezers to get the light on.

There is a type of incandescent bulb that is cylindrical in shape and about 5″ long. We used them in the Navy on older ships. They were referred to as “peter” bulbs.

The link in the post has a photo of a boob light.

If your home happens to have those 12″ square recessed lights, a boob light covers the hole perfectly and is a tremendous upgrade. Trust me.

My favorite from my house hunting adventure was the one whose owners didn’t think it necessary to pick up the many unpleasant landmines their very large dog left in pretty much every room in the house.

EWWW!!!!!!

Back when I was house-hunting I only went into one house (for sale by owner, naturally) that was a pigsty. There were piles of dirty laundry, piles of old newspaper, the rug hadn’t been vacuumed let alone dusted … and it was an Open House.

To be fair, it probably looked the same as my house does on any given day. I always figured people who don’t clean their house for Open House day really don’t want to move and are just being passive-aggressive.

Jim wrote: There is a type of incandescent bulb that is cylindrical in shape and about 5″ long. We used them in the Navy on older ships. They were referred to as “peter” bulbs.

To which I feel compelled to ask, how old, and in whose company were you, when you were in the Navy and used that term?

SB,
Your comment sheds some light on why there’s so much demand for real estate programming on channels like HGTV or TLC. Then again, it may be just people looking for a yonic (had to look that one up) or phallic symbol behind every tree.