When I was 34, pg w/ 2nd child. My parents were retiring and moving to live near my sister and her family in another part of their state. My siblings and I had all moved away -- and all to different places -- and parents wanted to be near at least some of their grandchildren.

It was a little sad but I also appreciated that now I can easily see both parents and sister on the same visit.

I did after my mom died. I was 28. It was an unexpected death so I had to empty the house and then sell it.

Mine hasn't been sold yet, though it's on the table that DH and I might buy it when my parents sell in the next few years. I don't want to live in upper NW again though, so I struggle with it. I will be sad and sentimental if it is sold to someone else.

In my mid-20s when my parents divorced. It was a very sad time for me.

Never. We have a family farm and it will have to be sold when my dad dies. I feel nothing but guilt because I would like to move back but can't because of jobs, and my brother can't either. I know he would like for it to go to one of the kids to continue our farming tradition but I don't see that happening, frankly.

You can't just let a working farm sit, either -- they deteriorate quickly.

You sound like me. My dad sold my childhood home when he remarried after my mom died. I was 32, lived 10 minutes away, was tasked with helping with all of the decluttering/distribution of the stuff he wasn't going to take with him. I was sad about it. Particularly since he only sold it because she made him, and that marriage only lasted a couple of years.

4 days after I graduated from high school, we moved to Florida. folk sold that house that they had built just prior to my birth.

I sold my first house when daughter was one and wife and I had been married for three years and moved to VA from FL sold our second home when daughter was ten and moved from reston to vienna.

its just a house.

My family moved every 5-10 years, so I didn't really have one single childhood home. The closest - where I lived ages 5-10 - was sold when our whole family moved to a new city. My high school home was sold when I was mid 20s. My parents had been there for nearly 10 years but I only lived with them for 3.5 of that, so it wasn't terribly nostalgic. I do find it interesting now to drive by any of my old homes when I'm in town, which isn't very often.

DH's parents are in their 80s and still live in the house in which DH was born. I don't expect them to ever move, unless it's to assisted living.

Mine got sold when I was 14. They moved into another place for a few years and then when I was in college they moved again. I've never lived at their current house, but I still have a bedroom there.

Funny thing is that I always dream about my childhood home. In dreams when I look around, I'm in my childhood home. It's not even a dream about that house, but I'll look around in the dream and recognize the windows and rooms. I've heard that most people's dreams take place in their childhood home.

A few years ago. I was in my late 20s and it was very sad for me. I lived there for 18 years. I twas compounded by another building that was a huge part of my childhood (our church) being sold also.

^^^ I am 47.

My parents didn't own a house until I was in college. They still live there.

In grade school, we lived in a little rental my grandparents owned, and we moved in HS and had a new rental almost every year. I moved almost yearly from 14-30.

After my dad died. It was sad.

My BFF's mom just sold their family home and her brother drove up to have 1 last dinner at home.

It's normal to be sad.

I am not very emotional normally.

My parents have not, but I'd be thrilled if they did. That would mean they'd have to go through the 30+ years of stuff in the basement.

And under what circumstances? My childhood home is going on the market soon (I live 10 minutes away so not like I haven't been home in years) and I'm sad about it. Just not ready to let go and I'm a 32 year old woman. When did your parents do it and why?