between a stretched Harley in this guy’s living room (some assembly/disassembly required) and a cyclotron in another guy’s living room, where we were trying to get it working.

That is not me.

I walked in and on the living room wall was a giant confederate flag hanging on the wall..end to end. I thought I was gonna puke and the guy was scary, to boot.

He had a relative in Alabama in the 60’s and she was practiced voodoo. He said they were sitting in the living room one day with her and a couple of other relatives when a goat , a pig and a chicken walked through the room all at the same time. No one batted an eye and just kept talking like nothing was happening

Or we clear out a home after a senior has died.

The stories I can tell of things I’ve seen would be an epic essay.

I saw the largest collection of dildos and a whipping room with restraints. A room filled with scary looking dolls ( some of my co workers refused to clear out that room) and I moved an 83 year old woman who had pet rats!

living room/sitting area was shaped like a pyramid, from top to bottom. Talk about eccentric, but I though it was pretty neat. I belonged to a group of artists and their friends, and so the things we all would run into and do were just off the wall, and eccentric. It was neat. Most of us are now over the hill, don't party as much as we used to, but when we do see each other, it's like the heavens opened up, and the joy in our faces to see each other again after years is something to behold.

Treasure those special moments w/ your friends, you never know when something may happen and you may never see them again (people move elsewhere, etc. (a common thing in STLMO), everyone moves to the big city (STLMO), and then ends up moving out of state, e.g., Calif., east coast, FL, etc. Now I am seeing some of these friends move back into the STLMO area again, getting too expensive for many to live elsewhere other than the rural part of STLMO.

Advice.

of sitting area, I seem to recall that they did this to increase the karma and good will, among all of us visiting. That's why I've always enjoyed seeing other people's homes, and seeing what they did w/ their places.

Not only is it super awkward, but it also isn't really flattering either.

We frequently take care of their home while they are away, so my husband and I are kind of used to it.

Well, once we were away at the same time the neighbors were, so we asked my brother to do the chores in our place.

Afterwards he said, "I wish you had warned me about the painting!"

What's that old saying - many things are too strange to believe, but few things are too strange not to have happened.

They are both in college, and they frequently have friends over!

I'd be mortified if it were my parents!!!

I certainly wouldn't have friends over!!

And no, there would be no friends coming over. Sheesh!

many collections, or lack of anything. 1 house had a pipe organ + the pipes were in different spots. a deco xray machine in a dr's house who had a home office.

One kid he hid under the parents bed. His brother found him alright - holding his parents vibrator and calling it busy buzz buzz. To make matters worse, the item was shaped anatomically correct

Curtains, cookie jars, dishes, tablecloth. Not wallpaper, though.

I used to babysit in my early teens in Connecticut in the early 60s. One couple had a working slot machine in their home.

In the early 70s, a woman I knew who worked for the telephone company collected Mickey Mouse ears. Not the kind from Disneyland but they were telephone insulators that looked like Mickey Mouse ears. Whenever one of their crew went into the back country to make repairs or upgrade the lines, often they'd replace the insulators and throw them on the ground. She asked them to bring them back to her. Here's a picture of what a Mickey Mouse ear looks like.

...the house always wins!

Dressed as a nun, sitting on top of a piano in friend-of-a-friend's house entryway. A very Catholic household.

She also had a kitchen full of all kinds of strawberry decorations--everything you described, and much more. Once I even counted all the strawberry decorations in her house. I forget how many there were, but it was a lot!

Several friends had various collections: one was an avid star wars fan, another was a star trek fan, especially of the klingons an romulans and had a lovely collection of their weapons. One loved doctor who. It certainly made their homes way more interesting than the average beigey, neutral colored home most people have!

was like being in the middle of a strawberry shortcake. It was really pleasant.