I recently visited with my two best childhood friends, Gene and Tim, on a visit to Palmyra, New York.
Tim and I reminisced about my childhood home. It was built in 1974, the final year of The Brady Bunch.
My parents had it built after buying an investment property. And they built it after planning and buying sufficient land.
They planned my childhood home, bought the land and then built a 2,000 square foot home with a 1,000 foot garage (huge for when it was built in the 1970's).
In the basement we had a used, free pool table. We had a dartboard and two bedrooms that my dad built. Also we had a large storage area for food and water.
In the family room we had built-in book shelfs lined with encyclopedias and several other books. We also had free standing bookshelves with perhaps 300 non-fiction books. That's where I fell in love with business books, religious books and self-help books.
In the third of four levels we had one of two fireplaces and a large kitchen and living room. There in the kitchen my mom was known to secretly "stretch" our milk by adding water.
And in the upstairs section we had three more bedrooms including my room.
The total cost of that house? $30,000.
Throughout the years we added a pool and a paved driveway and many trees. My parents sold it for over $80,000 about 17 years after they had it built. Now it's worth $139,000.
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