# What's the most important living place you don't remember? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 8, 2013, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-important-living-place-you-dont-remember/670688 "2013-10-08T15:23:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2013, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-important-living-place-you-dont-remember/670688/1 "2013-10-08T15:23:27Z")
Well obviously if you don’t remember you forgot it then you won’t remember that you don’t remember it. I guess I mean the most important place that you remember you forgot 🙂 I remember all the rooms except one, in all the places I’ve lived in since age 3, which is over a dozen of them especially if you only count places I’ve been in for a month or so. I don’t remember the bathroom in the house I lived in for a couple months when I was 13. I also don’t remember the laundry room or the office of the apartment I lived in for 7 months in 1998. But other than that I remember all the class rooms, offices, and rooms I’ve worked or lived in since I was 3. (In this context, “living” means any place that was part of your daily life for what you consider an apprpriate amount of time.) ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2013, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-important-living-place-you-dont-remember/670688/2 "2013-10-08T15:27:44Z")
I’ve forgotten over half of the places I lived. We moved sixteen times before I was eighteen. But the most important place I’ve forgotten was definitely the first four 1/2 years of my life, which I spent in India. Not even a faint memory, not even for a second, and that makes me very sad. ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2013, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-important-living-place-you-dont-remember/670688/3 "2013-10-08T17:28:24Z")
We lived in an apartment for a couple of months when I was three years old. I can remember the living/dining/kitchen part of the apartment, but have no memory of my bedroom there. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2013, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-important-living-place-you-dont-remember/670688/4 "2013-10-08T17:32:30Z")
The bathrooms in the first house I lived in. I remember what the upstairs bathroom looks like as there are many photos of me in its tub but I don’t know where to place it in the hallway. ---
**Author:** ![GusNSpot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gusnspot/32/436_2.png) [@GusNSpot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GusNSpot)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2013, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-important-living-place-you-dont-remember/670688/5 "2013-10-08T17:37:25Z")
My mother’s womb. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2013, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-important-living-place-you-dont-remember/670688/6 "2013-10-08T20:55:19Z")
Given that my mother still lives in my main childhood home (and I was just there months ago) and that remembering the places I’ve lived since then is a snap, I gotta go back to the place we lived for a few years up until I was almost 7. (And before that are just a few fleeting dream-like images.) I remember “my spaces”: bedroom, kitchen, living room, bathroom quite well. The one room I remember least is the small room that was used a nursery. I remember where it was in the house and that it was small. But I have no mental picture of what it looked like. Hmm, I just was trying to remember the area above the stairs to the basement. I think it was a little alcove of some sort but I don’t remember how it was situated with respect to the hall. All I can remember is that an old school desk was kept there. One of those [ones](http://www.homeartblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/school-desk-181.jpg) where the seat is in front and the desktop is in back. Works okay if you have a row of them. Not so much for a single one. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2013, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-most-important-living-place-you-dont-remember/670688/7 "2013-10-09T01:59:08Z")
I can’t remember the dorm rooms I stayed in in my sophomore and junior years at band camp. Freshman and senior years I got down fine.