When will it be my house?

Yes I am afraid I am guilty of that too. We bought our house from new so I suppose it will always be our house.

Maybe a large sign saying Sagos' House will do the trick.

We are guilty of the same! Of the 4 houses opposite only one we call by the new owners' names. One house is mainly rented now and was the local baker's house. And they moved 30 years ago. And we call it the Baker's house.
As we have been here longer than everyone, they must call ours the old couple's house!! Sad but true.

Maybe you should give your house a name, ‘Sago’s abode’ or similar although I am guilty of doing the same. I think it’s a kind of showing off actually as in ‘we’ve been here so long that we know who lived there previously’! Maybe join in and they might stop

LOL. our last but one house was always known as The Surgery, and our current one, as The Vicarage- at least not other people's names.

helterskelter1 how funny we’ve posted very similar responses.

When will it be your house? probably after you leave

But then Sago perhaps it's only because they've just met you, that they thought of the house as Richard and Jenny's who may only have been there five years but could have made a big impact within their social circle.

A 'come-back' I can think of is that you narrow your eyes in a mock-evil way and say, "It's my house now" with an evil cackle - they'll remember you then!

I recently met people along our road who have lived there for 45 years. When I was explaining where I live, the reponse was “oh, you mean, Enid’s house” (name changed). She must have moved early 2000s, the previous occupants were here at least 10 years and we’ve lived here 13 years!

I’m guilty of the same thing I’m afraid. When we moved here over 20 yrs ago all of our neighbours were retired ( I worked) but I saw a lot of them at the weekends.
Now we are retired the old neighbours have died and their homes are now occupied by younger families who all work, I rarely see them, don’t know them to speak too, high hedges ensure that, so in my head the houses are the old peoples houses.
Strange to think that I’m now one of the old people!

Mind you, we lived in our previous house for 33 years- and it is now a children's nursery. And I know peope now call it 'our house + name + childrens' names'.

Oooh! We are guilty of that too.

Next door but one has had 2 different families in since Chris and Debbie moved but it is still their house even though we go to their new house.

Ours is called The Old School House by all and sundry (not us). It was called Truants by the people before us. We have had people who went to school here knock at the door and ask to look round. I doubt it will ever truly be ours.

We've lived in our current house for 42 years. For about 20 years, if we needed to describe where we lived it would be "Paddy Murphy's" but eventually the generation who would have known him had died out, so now it's probably known by our name.
So if you stay long enough - over 20 years- it might become yours!

kittylister I would love to look around my old school but never dare approach the owners. I imagine it is wonderful inside. Do you mind people approaching you? Do they go on about their school memories? Does it bore you now? Apologies to sago!

Oops kittylester not lister

We nearly bought a house with no actual name in rural Ireland years ago.

We would have just called it "Jenny Murphy's" after the elderly lady whose house it was. It fell through eventually but I loved that house and still think of it 30 years later.

I think it's nice. It will be your house eventually. It's a continuum.

Lollin

kittylister I would love to look around my old school but never dare approach the owners. I imagine it is wonderful inside. Do you mind people approaching you? Do they go on about their school memories? Does it bore you now? Apologies to sago!

No, we don't mind at all. I feel as though we are only borrowing it.

It's interesting ro hear different recollections about it. Two of our children in laws went to school here and they have entirely different recollections despite only being 2 years apart in age. The best people for remembering are old teachers (only 1 left that we know of) and mums who helped with reading etc.

Children in law*

Someone we all loved here has moved away now, but his house will forever be Norman's house, whoever lives there. He was a wonderful character.
(not his real name)

My Gran lived in her house for over fifty years - when she was describing places she always used a description that was more relevant to her early years there. The local shop was known as 'Mary's' and as children we would often be asked to go to Mary's for 10 Woodbine for my grandfather. I was 19 before I found out that Mary had moved out before I was even born but to this day it is still Mary's.

Some day soon, perhaps in forty years, there will be no one alive who has ever known me. That's when I will be truly dead - when I exist in no one's memory. I thought a lot about how someone very old is the last living individual to have known some person or cluster of people. When that person dies, the whole cluster dies, too, vanishes from the living memory. I wonder who that person will be for me. Whose death will make me truly dead? ― Irvin D. Yalom, Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy

Is that what has to happen? The last person who remembers Richard and Jenny has to die or move away?

We've lived in "Oh! TheMcGonagalls' (name changed) old house!" for 17 years now. It has had several other owners between the end of the McGs' stint and us. But I quite like this way of recognising where people are – it connects you to the history of a place. All the old local families know which is the McGonagalls' Old House 😁

Our previous house had been let out for a number of years and we kept meeting people who’d lived in it as a rental. It had been decorated in a slightly offbeat manner and it was a bit surreal as people kept asking if we still had X decor in Y room and so on. (Answer was NO!)

Strangely, we never met the people we bought it from, they’d moved abroad.

Baggs

We've lived in "Oh! TheMcGonagalls' (name changed) old house!" for 17 years now. It has had several other owners between the end of the McGs' stint and us. But I quite like this way of recognising where people are – it connects you to the history of a place. All the old local families know which is the McGonagalls' Old House 😁

I love that continuity too, baggs.

Baggs

We've lived in "Oh! TheMcGonagalls' (name changed) old house!" for 17 years now. It has had several other owners between the end of the McGs' stint and us. But I quite like this way of recognising where people are – it connects you to the history of a place. All the old local families know which is the McGonagalls' Old House 😁

I think I'm like you with this one.
Some of us love that connection Baggs.
I know I'm my own person but I tread the same earth as those that went before. I like to feel this continuity.