I'm not an adult.

@hanzov69 clearly he is an adult now and can no longer deal with electronics

@ELUNO bwahaha, holy crap. Maybe I am an adult…

“How does this interweb thing work, do I have to turn my tower sideways before I hit post?”

@RiotDemon A Meh Meetup? A Mehtup? I might be open to that…

… especially if you own a truck and work for pizza/beer. And can lift heavy things.

@hanzov69 My two favorite things!

@hanzov69 What about a pizza truck?

@LaVikinga hmmm… probably no great for moving couches and arcade machines.

Make it a taco truck and I’m sold.

@hanzov69 arcade machines? Definitely party time.

@medz I’ve actually been searching since my offer was accepted, since I knew that’s what i wanted to do with that room.

I came up with five options:

1. Buy super cheap ones of questionable quality
2. Use alibaba to find cheap ones, but request samples to determine quality, then wait forever on shipping…
3. Try to find people selling used ones on craigslist (I actually found a couple, but too few and not that cheap)
4. Buy really damned nice ones that cost a fortune ( like these
5. Mid price range with good reviews and free shipping on amazon ( Amazon

I went with the last option. The fedex guy thought it was hilarious.

I also recommend using a calculator to determine how many you actually need. I used this one.

While the calculation seems pretty accurate, once…umm… “installed”… we realized that it would be more fun with even more. So, YMMV.

@connorbush For whatever it’s worth, when I started looking I realized that Zillow isn’t really that great, although I liked the UI. It seems to not update as often. I ended up doing a lot of legwork on redfin which seems more accurate.
My realtor had a pretty nice tool that she could send me things that matched my criteria, but that was a little inflexible for my tastes.

@connorbush I don’t know if you’re qualified or what your state has to offer, but you should look into the assistance programs available around you. I’m in the middle of buying a house right now, and since I make less than the median in the area and am a first time home buyer, a bunch of programs just threw money at me.

@hanzov69 Yeah being a Realtor, it’s frustrating when a client comes to me with something they find on Zillow only for me to tell them it’s been off the market for 6 months. It can have some really outdated information. Zillow, Trulia and the like all get the information last so it can be behind a lot.
Good luck in your home purchase if you have a Realtor they can help but it can be hard to find one that works well with you and doesn’t suck.

@raven Yeah, that was the most frustrating thing, I got a few referrals to the agency from friends/colleagues, and their online reviews were great.
My actual realtor left a lot to be desired though. At first I just sort of accepted it as “the process”, but soon realized that my experience was atypical.

Fortunately it’s all over and now I just have to deal with all the moving and fixing all the things the home inspection missed.

@tinamarie1974 Oh jeez… I just know that’s going to get said, a lot.

@conandlibrarian I considered obscuring that some way… but she’s not my realtor so… meh

@hanzov69 even if she was your realtor, the number is on a sign in public so…

@Pantheist it was late and I was tired…
I wouldn’t give my realtor any promotion, even unintentional. She was possibly the worst part of the process.

@f00l We’ve done that (fill up rooms - in this case dorm rooms) with balloons, hanging strips of newspaper from the ceiling to the floor, wadded up newspaper, bathtubs full of snow, etc. Your basic why should we do homework when we have pranks to do? Also was in the bell tower (with others) flipping the switches to have the lights rotate the outside of the tower, and a few other things that involved engineering students…

@parodymandotcom that’s awesome, and now I’m backing it.

This is how you go house poor, right?

@parodymandotcom ok yeah i just backed that

@parodymandotcom as a drunk, i am disappointed by the description of this game. The title sounded right up my alley and I like most stupid card games like fluxx.

@mikeleemm I used that calculator he had linked to - he spend a rather large fortune on balls unless he robbed an Ikea or something.

@Kidsandliz In another post he linked to this, and in the original post he said 12,000 balls. So probably $1,560 if the current price is the one he got them at.

@mikeleemm I mean, we spend thousands on stupid computers to help us with our fake connection with the world that have to be replaced every 5 years or so, whats it to buy a lifetime supply of ball pit balls

@Pantheist He is going to become the favorite uncle with that room and all his nieces and nephews are going to want him to babysit them LOL

@mikeleemm Yeah, 12,000 is where I’m at, and while it’s good, it’s not good enough. We reckon another 6,000 will cover it.

@Al_Coholic Nailed it.

@Kidsandliz As a matter of fact, this was actually the tipping point in deciding where we did thanksgiving this year. Looks like I’m hosting

@Al_Coholic I’d guess he has barrier at the door that he can step over. I can just imagine if it is the door. Avalanche. LOL

@Kidsandliz Yeah, I’m guessing some sort of net or maybe one of those child blocking gates. I’ve thought about getting a ball pit or making one somehow on and off but I always figure it probably wouldn’t be worth the cost before I got bored of it. Never thought of making a whole room into one…

@Al_Coholic I’m using a baby gate right now, but after living with with it a few days, I’ve decided to put wood to saw and build a proper barrier.

The plan currently is to fashion an odd dutch door (bottom will be much lower than usual) and add some rope netting with magnets at the bottom. The door is mostly for the cat I’m planning on adopting, and the net is for the stray balls I keep finding in the hallway.

@luvche21 get your son involved…bet he can talk mom into it!

@mikibell I’ll have to see how that goes - he’s still pretty young to be manipulative though…

@luvche21 he is toooo darn cute… and I bet he knows it

@mikibell Yep, he sure does!

@luvche21 It’s awesome! Had to institute a few house rules/guidelines though. Mostly that keys and cellphones are suggested to stay outside of the room and beer/food of any sort is a big no-no.

No accidents yet, but it’s only a matter of time…

@hanzov69 @mikibell - I might have made some headway with convincing the wife - we can’t use a full room for it, but would have to get some kind of playpen thing to keep them in. Designating an entire room would be epic though…

@luvche21 we used one of those gated playyard things… We had two that I think we fashioned into a hexagon…might have been a pentagon…it was a loooong time ago…and we filled that with those plastic balls…the area was big enough that I fit into the “pit” with both of my children…

@mikibell
That must have been an intense moment. Doing the “normal” life-stage thing and wondering if the pieces of the shattered world would ever come back together.

@RiotDemon that house must smell terrible

@Pantheist Pus 1 billion.
My daughter ran a ferret rescue for a time. You know I love my daughter, I love my son-in-law and I especially love my grandgirls. But those damn ferrets STANK! Cute little buggers though.

@therealjrn My best friend had a ferret when we were teens. I hated going to his room because teen boy + ferret = stink. Also his ferret was a super jerk.

@therealjrn They’re very fun to play with (they remind me of mini-cats) but the smell is a real issue

@Pantheist OMG, they are super fun. I watched my partner’s ferret for over a week, and I loved it. I wish I had a better camera at the time when I was watching her. She was just so bouncy and quick, it was hard to get photos.

They have an interesting smell… If you wash their bedding often, it’s not that bad. Apparently if you wash the ferret a lot, you make the smell worse.

@RiotDemon I’d never heard that about washing the ferret itself. Good to know though.

@lysdexia
Yes. If someone one will kindly provide a suitable hurricane-, tornado-, and earthquake-proof house, I’m sure w can do something with a ball pit for all.

BAZINGA!

@f00l And also, not to be rude or anything, but the house should be bug/mould/smoke/rodent free.
Can deal with a little dust MAYBE…

Is this how gofundme projects are started? Is there a platform similar to request free homes in return for society’s greater good?

@lysdexia Due to massive response via PM, and to answer the questions (offers) I’ve received I’ll put this out there.

• No, Flint Michigan isn’t on my list of destinations. Detroit for White Castle, but no.
• Chiraq… really??
• @brokegrljuno Alaska will work, not really conducive to the mission though. Also based on your username, no offense meant obviously, but we’re looking for this to be fully funded as well. Sorry.

Keep the pm’s coming or feel free to offer up your clean house in this thread. Thank you all.

@lysdexia Assume you mean Blockbuster’s Block Party?

@madlab Nice one. That’s exactly what I was thinking of. ^^
What did you think of the place, if you went of course? Could something like this be successful once again - what with the death of arcades and the great influx of shut-ins starting around the mid 90’s?

@madlab that makes me sad. Sounds like it would be a lot of fun.

I still play laser tag occasionally. There aren’t any arcades close to me anymore.

@RiotDemon It was simply amazing.
But what’s to stop someone from building more based on the simple goal of no friggin children.
Honestly where I live now, there are far too many adult oriented places of similar ilk, but none of them getting it 'just right.
What made it great was the no minors policy. VR was cool once or twice on shrooms but the winner was the ballpit. It was setup near identical to a high end mc donald’s playpen, sized up proportionally.
Maybe it was the meth or maybe the general happy go lucky experience that is Abq that made it as great as it was…

@lysdexia Too old to be into that scene and my kids were too young then, but I have business in the area so have watched the site boom and bust over the years. I can’t remember what came after it, but last 10 years was an iT’z (“Family Food and Fun”) catering to younger kids and party rentals, but that closed earlier this year. Last I heard the realtors are marketing it as non-retail space (e.g., offices or call center).

I highly doubt that it would be a viable business these days; there are just too many liability issues. However, there appears to be a trend towards pop-up events and fundraisers that let you experience adult ball pits.

@Kidsandliz I refuse to believe she wasn’t in on it, but good grief that would be amazing.

For a little while at least.

@hanzov69 I especially liked the balcony to the trampoline action, although I think I would have been scared to go first. What puzzles me is all the bags in the garage that weren’t used. He apparently bought way too many.

@Kidsandliz that was nuts. I can’t imagine the amount of money he spent.

@f00l this must be remedied.