YSaC, Vol. 436: In every dream home, a nightmare.
doll house – $50
this house is in great shape thers carpet in the house very great shape name katrina email me
Is it my imagination, or does this dollhouse look like it’s a foreclosure that’s been tagged by gangs — albeit, gangs of three-year-olds with crayons, but still?
I half-expect to see that the copper wiring has been pulled out of the walls. Speaking of which, aren’t dollhouses usually only missing the back wall? This one seems to be standing up on the strength of the crayon wax alone.
I’m reasonably certain that it’s infested with dollhouse-sized roaches and rats. (You can get those at the better dollhouse supply stores.)
I’m guessing that this person’s definition of “very great shape” and mine have a few fundamentally irreconcilable differences. There’s certainly a difference in our definition of carpet, anyway.
Thanks for the submission, Natalie!
Wait!! You missed the most important piece of information! Notice that the poster posted this important tidbit…. “name katrina”. As in the hurricane? Wouldn’t that explain it?
I didn’t miss it. I just couldn’t figure out how to make it a joke that I was comfortable with, since people affected by Katrina still haven’t seen things return to normal.
Maybe I was just being oversensitive, but that’s why I didn’t reference it.
And I thought it was funny that the carpet had a name.
I also thought that they had named the carpet. “That is real love. They are really attached to this little home, if they even give the berber a name…”
Sorry. Hope I didn’t offend anyone. I just found the name oddly ironic. My intention was certainly not to make light of anyone’s hardships.
Judybat, no worries … like I said, it’s probably just me being oversensitive. I do that sometimes. I overthink things for a living, so it bleeds into my hobbies as well.
Just the thing for Ghetto Barbie! The rubber-room carpeting is especially nice, it’s a shame they ran out before they could do the walls as well.
It’s a pity, this was once a nice dollhouse before Jackson Pollack,Jr got a hold of it.
“Good shape” … for a crackhouse or shooting gallery squat, yessiree!
It’s like this house in miniature…
http://www.domain.com.au/Public/PropertyDetails.aspx?adid=2008015172
I saw that on It’s Lovely I’ll Take It a few days ago!
It was the first thing that came to mind after viewing this! I wondered if this dollhouse belonged the the artist who “decorated” that house for sale.
Experts agree that crayons (in shades of indifference) and markers are the gateway mediums to spray paint.
That was my first thought! All it needs is the outside to be tastefully decorated as well and it’s the spitting image.
It is obvious what happened here. Barbie, one of the most successful model-dolls of all time, realized all of her dreams and bought a huge house to live in, in style. Then she met Ken. Ken wasn’t quite as successful, or as classy, see. But he did ONE thing very well, nudge nudge wink wink.
Long story short, five kids later and the house looks like this. Ken says he is going to go out and get a vacuum “very soon” for the carpet. Barbie used to care about the kids writing on the walls, but now she just tells her few remaining friends that she considers all of her kids to be “artists” and that she doesn’t want to stunt their artistic talent. She plans to talk to them about knocking down that side wall of the house as soon as this episode of “Dr. Phil” is over.
Everyone is sad for Barbie, except for the tabloids, who are selling multi-million issues every time Barbie shows up on the cover!
You mean this Barbie?
This person makes the typical amateur mistakes when selling their home without a REALTOR® :
Curb appeal! (your landscaping reminds me of a ragged old sofa arm)
Freshen up! (a little paint or wallpaper works wonders)
Elbow grease! (you can never run the vacuum too many times!)
Show your best face! (Never take photos while drunk, or caffeine-shaky)
Take care with your description! (Mentioning both “house” and “Katrina” in an ad brings to mind formaldehyde-laced trailers)
For additional tips, contact your local REALTOR®.
Is Katrina the name of the dollhouse, the seller, or the force of nature that left chunks of debris all over the “carpets”?
Is there an “all of the above” option? Because that’s what I’m thinking.
Why are none of you getting the name right? It’s “Katrina Email Me.” Of the South Hampton Email Mes. Very posh, very wealthy. Surely you’ve heard of her.
This post makes me wonder if there’s a dollhouse version of It’s Lovely, I’ll Take It! (or Lovely Listing, as it seems to be called now) out there somewhere…
I think the little brother from Home Improvement lived in this house
The blurry quality of the photos make me wonder if a tiny little Michael Myers got to all the little Barbie dolls living there. Do Barbie’s bleed crayon wax?
Does anyone else think this dollhouse is haunted by a tiny, doll-sized ghost?
I’m betting it was built on an itty-bitty indian burial ground.
They didn’t move the itty-bitty graves!
I submitted this. When I wrote to the seller to ask her if it was missing a wall (which it clearly is, the left wall in the pics of the back of the house), I got this reply:
“n0 its not miszin Nething!”
The seller emailed me back two more times, offering to drop the price (to $25) and even telling me she would “paint it reall nice.” I didn’t know if I should laugh or cry, so I just ate a donut.
Yay – I love stories with a happy ending……..tell it again.
“…and that…is the rest of the story.” –Paul Harvey
So is it the practice among Craigslist sellers to write in Internet-meme-speak? Then let me try: Yers, ert ers mersin’ sermtherng!
I didn’t know you could white-wash a dollhouse roof.
Taking the interior into account, I’m thinking that may be a complete layer of bird crap.
“EWWWW, a bird pooped my dollhouse, mom”
“S’okay sweety, when th berds cuver the whol thing up, itll look reall nice!!!”
It’s one of the new line of reality dollhouses. This is the “right off of I-395 before the developers discovered it” model.
I assume the miniature Homeowners’ Association committee (complete with tiny citation books) is sold separately.
HOAs…the scourge of residential home ownership, miniature or life-size.
I’d like to say at this time that I have never belonged to an “HOA”.
I have also never belonged to a “HO”.
Additionally, I have never belonged to an “H”.
I have, however belonged to a ” “.
Were you ever a member of 4H?
An ASCII 32?
Hot Honeys & Hunks of Horror?
Absolutely.
Another use for dryer lint: doll house carpeting!
(I think I can even see a shredded tissue in that particular batch.)
Hmm, I don’t see any little chalk outlines or miniature crime scene tape. So I don’t really see a problem.
This could be a great place to live…if it attracts flies. The only problem is there is no door to the bathroom. Anyone could just walk in on you.
Former occupant sold separately.
$50 for any size house is a bargain! Just not sure all the bird cages will fit in there. Anyone have a miniature tape measure? Or an electromagnetic shrink ray?
That house is in even worse shape than the one I picked up for $2 this morning, and it doesn’t even come with furnishings. Do they make a Barbie sized meth lab residue test kit? It might be advised for the would-be handyman who optimistically invests in it.
Ralph, oh Ralph, how I wonder
From one pun to another,
Is it fair, must you share?
In the box for one not square!
Punchity Punch Punch!
Good morning, Lovely Listings!