You know you're an old house owner if ...

[csnyder]

Your Christmas/Birthday/Wish list consists of:
1. The book Working Windows by T Meany

That's the first item on my Christmas list, too!

[Daniel Meyer]

On my Christmas list:

Contractors trash bags.

Third year in a row!

[nezwick]

...you're proud to show off the fact that your dining room has never, in the house's entire history, had an electrical receptacle. (At least a receptacle as we know them today. They probably used Edison adapters in the ceiling light fixture.)

...you and your brother take an 8.5 hour round trip in one day out East to pick up a load of doors, sash, old light fixtures, and misc. "junk" that was stripped from an 1886 farmhouse... and when that trip costs $140 in gasoline alone.

[tylerstacer]

you feel sophisticated and uneasy in a new modern construction.

[alexmercer]

you feel modern kitchen designs are just computer graphics

[djeaux]

Your knees remind you that you could have invested in a one-story house, and your bank account reminds you that new construction maintenance is nickels and dimes instead of quarters and half dollars.

"It seemed like a great idea at the time" is a common phrase...