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15 Things That Happen When Your Parents Sell Your Childhood Home

It's not easy letting go of your childhood home. But there's also great joy in making a new one! Start your search for the perfect home with Coldwell Banker.

1. When your parents tell you they're selling, you take it pretty hard.

2. You suddenly get attached to everything in the house.

3. You can't believe how much stuff you have.

And realize that "storage space" is the only thing you should have been worried about when looking for your overpriced apartment.

4. You spend at least 15 minutes reminiscing about every item you come across.

5. You fight over belongings with your sibling(s) as if you were kids again.

6. You find that toy you thought you'd lost years ago, and it gets pretty emotional.

7. To keep your trophies or not to keep your trophies? That is the question!

8. You make one last mark on the "height chart" in the kitchen.

9. The empty living room reveals old stains you hid by moving furniture over an inch or two.

10. You carve your name somewhere as a symbolic gesture.

11. You give one last eulogy to all of your buried family pets.

12. You do one last perfect layup in your driveway.

13. You secretly keep a house key, even though you know the locks will be changed.

14. You go by your old house every once in a while, just for a quick look-see.

15. You have dinner in your parents' new house and realize that your home hasn't gone anywhere.