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View Poll Results: Did you have a treehouse as a kid? | |||
Yes, and it was a palace. It had standard home elements such as electricity and a roof and furniture. | 1 | 1.92% | |
Yes, and it was good shelter. It had a roof and walls, but no fancy stuff like lights. | 16 | 30.77% | |
Yes, but it was more of a well-built tree platform, with no roof or anything. It was a nice platform. | 12 | 23.08% | |
Yes, but it was really just some loose boards nailed into a rickety platform. Not someplace I'd hang out in. | 7 | 13.46% | |
Kind of. I nailed boards into a tree to make a ladder so I could sit in the branches. | 2 | 3.85% | |
No, but I really wanted one. I just couldn't check all the boxes to get one. | 5 | 9.62% | |
No. I kind of wanted one, but not enough to put up a hard fight for it. | 6 | 11.54% | |
No, and I didn't really want one. I was non-arboreal. | 2 | 3.85% | |
No, and I never really thought about one. I lived in saguaro country or some such thing. | 1 | 1.92% | |
I have a prehensile tail. | 0 | 0% | |
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10-12-2019, 07:32 AM | #16 |
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My treehouse years were spent in western Kansas, so there's not a lot of trees big enough to have one. My buddies and I did find one that we could climb and sit on the branches, so we nailed a couple boards to the trunk and that was it.
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10-12-2019, 07:43 AM | #17 |
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Built a treehouse myself when I was a kid and later found an abandoned shed on our farm that I made a nice room in in one end. Used cardboard boxes flattened out for insulation and with a few candles or a very small campfire it would be nice and warm even when there was snow out. Went and looked at it later in life before it collapsed/demo'd and it didn't seem near as "cool" as it did at the time.
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10-12-2019, 07:49 AM | #18 |
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Not as a kid cause we lived in state parks. Not our trees.
Built a shitty one for my sons w a rope ladder. Few years back helped my son build a real nice one for his kids, then he sold the house to two lesbians. Sec The property not just the tree house
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10-12-2019, 07:54 AM | #19 |
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We didn’t personally have one, but our neighbor behind us did and it was flipping amazing. He was an architect and build this thing to last forever. It was a double-decker, and there were many Summer nights spent inside that tree house as a kid. So many great memories and so much fun....
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10-12-2019, 08:07 AM | #20 |
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My wife found a kit she liked online but instead if ordering the kit (which was expensive) she went to Home Depot and ordered everything through them and planned building to that kits design. I had previously informed her that I wasn't up for at as I do and have done a lot of projects (additions, basement finishing, decks, pool decks, brick patios, retaining walls etc...) Like I said I just wasn't up for it. Anyways she figured she could do it herself and we had well over $1000 of lumber delivered. That was at least 3 years ago and what's left of the pile is out back behind the fence rotting. I did use some of the pressure treated lumber for a raised garden and a retaining wall but the rest just sits there. My youngest daughter is now 14 and isn't interested anymore. I knew when my wife bought the lumber it was never going to happen but is what it is....
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10-12-2019, 01:18 PM | #21 |
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They seemed pretty common in the rural area I grew up in, but most of them were kid-built and probably weren't up to code.
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10-12-2019, 01:47 PM | #22 | |
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10-12-2019, 01:51 PM | #23 |
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The nhood kids all got together and built a double-decker mega tree house. I built a little one at home. Both houses were built by kids no older than 14. That would never happen today.
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10-12-2019, 01:54 PM | #24 |
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I assume they had faulty railings and defective safety tethers. I saw many of those deathtraps in my youth.
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10-12-2019, 02:11 PM | #25 |
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Two of my sisters and I in our tree house platform. I was probably about 7 or 8 years old, so this would be approximately 1966, 1967
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10-12-2019, 02:47 PM | #26 |
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My first girlfriend molested me in my treehouse.
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10-12-2019, 04:28 PM | #28 |
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Bunch of us guys worked on a clubhouse that we were gonna move up in a tree, but that never came to be.
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