# Is your old room a shrine?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-old-room-a-shrine/682549>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [February 28, 2014, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-old-room-a-shrine/682549 "2014-02-28T21:58:56Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2014, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-old-room-a-shrine/682549/41 "2014-03-01T17:32:19Z")

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I still live there. I was going to say there’s not a stick of the original furniture left, but there is a small blanket chest. But it’s all different and much, much better.

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**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2014, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-old-room-a-shrine/682549/42 "2014-03-01T18:01:54Z")

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My room doesn’t exist anymore. My parents did a major renovation about 10 years ago and that room went away in the renovation.

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**Author:** ![actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e79b87/32.png) [@actualliberalnotoneofthose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/actualliberalnotoneofthose)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2014, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-old-room-a-shrine/682549/43 "2014-03-01T21:32:05Z")

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Can’t say I lived in a house that had extra rooms or the expectation that the residents would remain the same after I moved. My room became a younger sibling’s room, and then many years later my mother’s new husband and his kids moved in. I don’t even know who lives there now or where. My shrine lived on in the “attic” (really just a hole in the ceiling in the closet) and a leaky shed.

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**Author:** ![Essured](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Essured](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Essured)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2014, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-old-room-a-shrine/682549/44 "2014-03-01T22:42:34Z")

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Nope, no shrine. My parents did the “stay together for the kids” thing, so the moment I moved out, my mother moved into my old room and decorated it to her taste. My brothers old room became the computer room, as he moved out before I did, but returned for a while.

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**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2014, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-old-room-a-shrine/682549/45 "2014-03-01T23:17:37Z")

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Not a shrine to me, but it is fast turning into a shrine to the grandkids 🙂

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**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\
**Post date:** [March 1, 2014, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-old-room-a-shrine/682549/46 "2014-03-01T23:45:21Z")

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She turned it into her sewing room before I even moved out…

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