Married Folks, what did you do with your Bachelor/Bachelorette Pad?

[samurainoir]

I've been with my lovely spouse for a decade, but kept ownership of my bachelor pad for various reasons where it has served various purposes over the years, such as storage (the most important for a collector/hoarder), office and place for friends/family to crash/rent/live.

I'm interested to hear what your solution was for your former singles living space.

My line of inquiry with friends has yielded some interesting stories. From recreating their bachelor apartment into the Man Room in the basement, to couples who purchased a former multifamily dwelling so that they co-habitate, but keep separate living quarters for the pets who did not get along.

I seem to also recall that this was an episode of Mad About You where it was revealed that Kramer from Seinfeld was living in the guy's former bachelor pad.

[Trappy Trek Freak]

My wife is a realtor and she referred my small 3BR house as "Camp Trap" well she sold it after one week on the market right after we got married. It was a hoarding nest for me. Now we are overrun with collectables and will have big sale at mego meet this year.

[megoapesnut]

I was renting an apartment when I met my wife and, soon after we got engaged, my Grandmother decided to sell her house and move in with my aunt. I had too many wonderful memories of great times spent in that house and I couldn't let it leave the family so I bought it and have been living in it ever since (going on 22 years). I, obviously, did not continue renting the apartment. However, when my Realty magazine was doing better, we did purchase another cottage in the tiny "resort" village of Mt. Gretna as we get season passes to swim in the lake there every year. It was too small for the whole family to spend much time in, but it made a great hang-out spot after swimming in the lake and for a movie/poker night with my friends. So I guess you could have called that my "pad". I also used it to display most of my Mego and lunchbox collection. However, the Real Estate plunge finally hit our area a few years ago and my magazine's profit margin sunk with it, so I had to sell the cottage. It was a sad day.

[samurainoir]

It was a hoarding nest for me. Now we are overrun with collectables and will have big sale at mego meet this year.

This is the big question mark that I'm facing as well as we try and plan for the future in regards to our real estate situation.

Thank goodness I invested in an area that is virtually bullet proof in terms of this property slump that everyone seems to be experiencing (ie "Now is not the time to sell").

How do folks negotiate with their collections in terms of space in the house/apartment? Did your partner move in with you or did you move in with them or did you get a new space?

Did anyone decide to get a storage facility? I recall this was GI Joe/Transformers collector/author Mark Bellamo's solution in that documentary where they visited his storage space. I can't remember the name of the woman working on the definitive GI Joe book in the follow up documentary, but It was a bit frightening how it had overrun every single space in what looked to be a rather spacious house.

[Type3Toys]

I sold it.

[Hotfoot]

Moved her into it for 5 years. Sold it and bought my sister's half of my mom's house.

[Nostalgiabuff]

I never had a bachelor pad. moved out of my parents house and in with my girlfriend/soon to be wife.

[Megospidey]

My bachelor pad was my college dorm room. Graduated, married, and moved into our appartment that we rented.

[cjefferys]

My "bachelor pads" were crappy apartments that I don't miss at all. We bought our first place after we got engaged, so I never really owned a bachelor pad. My current pad is my office/toyroom/man room downstairs. Got everything I need in there except for a beer fridge and a private bathroom (one day!)

[MIB41]

Kept my condo in the family after I got married, but I'm getting ready to sell it. It was a good place to hold on to because it was paid for and was a cheap solution for storage. We're thinking about a different house now, so I could use the sale of that property as a nice down payment for a different home and keep the profit from our current house for securities.

[UnderdogDJLSW]

My bachelor pad was a house I rented with 3 other people. I was glad to move out and say goodbye. As for a collection, mine was all in boxes until I got married. Now that I've kids, most of it is in boxes again

[Brue]

um let's see the place i lived all through college i would call the bach pad. it burned to the ground

the place i was living when I got engaged would be the next bach pad. my wife moved into it. and get this- relegated almost all the toys to one room.

[jimbutsu]

I met my wife for the first time a few weeks after I closed on my house. I only had the place to myself for like a month!

[babycyclops]

I got married in December of last year, and my wife and I are (hopefully) about to move into our own apartment, once the bank officially approves the loan.

Oh man, I've got enough prints, toys, model kits and books (especially books) to fill every room. I am kind of freaking out about how much of my stuff I will actually be able to have around me. I work from home usually 2-3 days a week, so one room will be my studio, and thus my own space. At the moment we each rent a small apartment in the same building. It's an arrangement which works rather well, but is about to change!

I think I'm gonna end up leaning on my Mum & Dad to keep some stuff at their house. My father is a mad stamp and coin collector, so he understands

[kingdom warrior]

I had a warehouse Loft in Brooklyn right off the Williamsburg Bridge that I sold just before I got married. I bought a house in Westchester for my wife so that we could have something that was for both of us at the time. I'm now slowly house hunting for a new home for my family one that has a walk in attic so I can turn it into my man lair