Dammit
Aside from the house, who the hell is going to pay the electric bill.
Does every damn light in the place need to be on?
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mkhopper@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Nanook@lemmy.zip 21 hours ago
250k was still a shit ton of money back then, not a round trip to the grocery store like now.
arrow74@lemmy.zip 16 hours ago
Assuming they purchased that home in 1980 at 250k that would be valued just under 1 million today after inflation.
That house would easily be selling for 2 to 3 million now
tehBishop@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 17 hours ago
Yeah but also it was like a 9b/6.5br house with bonkers common space
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 19 hours ago
and that trump was in one of them being a creep
halvar@lemy.lol 16 hours ago
once you stop taking politics seriously it’s fucking hilarious that the americans elected a president who felt the need to be in a fucking Home Alone movie because he is that egotistical.
you probably have to do a ton of weed or randomly dissociate after coming home from the grocery store where you spent your life savings, but man once you get there
Mirshe@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
He had to be in it because they filmed in his hotel. Imagine Paris Hilton wanting to be in a film because part of the movie is shot in a Hilton. It wasn’t enough that everything in that hotel is labeled “Trump”, he had to show up and have a speaking role because otherwise you might forget who the hotel belongs to.
theneverfox@pawb.social 11 hours ago
I think that part is pretty normal, lots of people make deals like that
The crazy part is how he used to call newspapers under false names to talk himself up
Hell, there’s a reasonable amount of evidence suggesting that he was never a billionaire (until this year at least), he apparently got on the Forbes list by bugging them until they put him in
Furbag@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
It’s not really that surprising that Trump would request a cameo considering they used one of his hotels for filming.
The thing that I have never been able to get over is how the guy who live in a luxurious penthouse suite and shits on a gilded toilet, that has built his entire brand identity about being a rich douchebag somehow convinced people that he was a champion of the common man, as if he has literally anything in common with the average American whatsoever. I still burn even today when I think about how stupid people are to have fallen for it in the first place.
Now any criticism of him is automatically political, because he got elected to the most important job in the nation. Even criticism of him before he became a politician is being reframed as just disgruntled Democrats trying to tear down Trump.
I hate him. So much.
SARGE@startrek.website 15 hours ago
I mean, by then we had Ronald Reagan, so…
It’s always been a joke.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
don’t think there’s a point to attribute morality or judgment from a cameo from a then tv celebrity.
he is one of the worst people who ever lived. but i doubt that cameo had anything to do with it.
CluckN@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
It’s an easy way to get your name out there. Look at Zelenskyy, dude played a fictional president before being elected. That’s like electing Kevin Spacey for being in House of Cards.
stiffyGlitch@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
what
NoSpotOfGround@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
From Google AI:
In 1990, the year the film was released, the actual house from Home Alone was purchased for $875,000. Economists from the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago have determined that, at that price, the home was only affordable to the top 1% of Chicago households at the time. Other details about the home’s value and affordability:
The actual property at 671 Lincoln Avenue in Winnetka, Illinois, sold for $875,000 in 1989, just prior to the film’s release in 1990.
To afford the house in 1990 (assuming they spent no more than 30% of their income on housing), the McCallister family would have needed a household income of about $305,000, which is approximately $665,000 in 2022 dollars.
The house last sold in 2012 for $1.58 million and again in early 2025 for $5.5 million.
arrow74@lemmy.zip 16 hours ago
From Google AI:
So it’s unsourced and likely inaccurate.
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de 19 hours ago
Brave pairing Ai content. Surprised you have more upvotes than downvotes with this crowd.
I’m happy to see things summarised by LLMs, so thanks for the details.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 hours ago
summarized
Oh, then surely the Google AI can tell us exactly what it summarized, right?
DahGangalang@infosec.pub 17 hours ago
I’m mostly cool with it because they disclosed it was AI up front. Its also a summarization (vs OC), so even if it isn’t exactly correct it probably just mixed up a year/dollar value pairing at worst.
favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 19 hours ago
So, I do happen to know that they made some changes to the houses including building a full size basketball court two levels underground. However, making $665,000 is not enough to afford an $5million dollar house.
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Read it again more closely. In 1990 in order for them to afford an $885,000 house, they would have needed an annual household income of $335,000 which is the 2025 equivalent of $665,000.
bulwark@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
hakunawazo@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 hours ago
Krompus@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
They somehow made it look bland as hell. They added a fucking basketball court? Are they targeting Chicago Bulls players?
Psythik@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
I’m having this argument with my realtor right now. She wants me to paint the entire house a boring white color, destroying all of its character; even ruin the wood cabinets by painting them too. I think she’s crazy but the wife is siding with her so I don’t know what the fuck to do. I don’t want to ruin my beautiful stained wood with ugly, white paint. I find it hard to believe that this is what actually sells.
RagingRobot@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
We are getting ready to sell our house and the realtor wants us to paint everything boring colors and it’s killing me. She mentioned white was a good choice lol.
I can’t wait to get in my new place and paint it so I can feel normal again. Who wants to be surrounded by boring white walls all day
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 hours ago
Originality is scary to the vast majority of people. And because of billionaires, comforting and following pays off in the short term, and most people are selfish, stupid, and irresponsible.
VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 hours ago
Why do renovations always mean “make it look like a lab, not a home?” Someone get Kevin’s aunt and uncle in New York on the phone before it’s too late for them.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 10 hours ago
The ideal clients are obviously people who cook meth for a living.
sepi@piefed.social 20 hours ago
Had so many kids that they forgot one for the longest time. TBH they were fine without him too.
idiomaddict@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
And he was a messy little fucker, anyway
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
are you going to blame the child for developing coping mechanisms for the intense neglect he grew up with?
happy ending of home alone, CPS intervenes at the end
hperrin@lemmy.ca 21 hours ago
That would be at least $350k in today’s money.
wizzor@sopuli.xyz 20 hours ago
And a person who made 250k in a decade then, would make 275k now.
dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 hours ago
That’s a 500k house easily
helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Happy cake day, I think that house will be in the millins. That’s basically a mansion in a Chicago suburb, a relatively nice neighborhood, and in walking distance of a big park.
hperrin@lemmy.ca 9 hours ago
It’s probably be worth way more than 500k. I meant what they paid for it back then would only be like 350k today, despite the house being worth millions.
stiffyGlitch@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
post: about home alone house
people in comments: politics
me: jumps off of bridge
with bungee cords
buttnugget@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
That makes it seem like the post is about the house itself and not about limited access to resources. I’m glad you went bungee jumping but this is exactly the type of post it should be.
stiffyGlitch@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
oh ok
politics totally have everything to do with the cost of the house
glibg@lemmy.ca 59 minutes ago
My fav part is on the plane when Kevin’s dad guesses that the issue is he left the garage door open… and is completely unbothered by it. This sort of thing would have ruined my dad’s entire vacation.