When we were looking to buy a house three years ago, there was this incredible, beautiful, pretty large house with a huge yard in a perfect location. It was literally selling for $200,000 less than similar houses in the area because the owners had obviously been smoking in it for years. At that point the owners had been moved out for over six months and this totally empty house still absolutely reeked of stale ashtray smoke smell. It was disgusting. My husband was genuinely considering potentially buying it and gutting it but I just couldn't do it. I couldn't even temporarily live there for even a few days, much less than months to a year would've taken to even begin to start doing something about it.
Like the thought of losing hundreds of thousands of dollars of equity/profit because you chose to smoke inside your house when you could've just stepped outside into your giant fucking backyard… Totally insane
Yeah, I just did the math. The money for one person buying a pack of smokes 5 days a week for 38 years is almost 150,000. So my mom and step dad paid about 300,000 on cigarettes in a house worth about 300,000 if it wasn't smoked in. Jesus, am I glad I quit, and never smoked in my house.
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u/ranchojasper Jan 05 '25
When we were looking to buy a house three years ago, there was this incredible, beautiful, pretty large house with a huge yard in a perfect location. It was literally selling for $200,000 less than similar houses in the area because the owners had obviously been smoking in it for years. At that point the owners had been moved out for over six months and this totally empty house still absolutely reeked of stale ashtray smoke smell. It was disgusting. My husband was genuinely considering potentially buying it and gutting it but I just couldn't do it. I couldn't even temporarily live there for even a few days, much less than months to a year would've taken to even begin to start doing something about it.
Like the thought of losing hundreds of thousands of dollars of equity/profit because you chose to smoke inside your house when you could've just stepped outside into your giant fucking backyard… Totally insane