13 Bedrooms/15 Baths. Hmmm. I’ve got more bedrooms (17) because of renting a 4 bedroom house w/friends & living in a frat house in college. No where remotely close to that many bathrooms.

I count 25 bedrooms (that I or my family actually occupied) and 12 and a third bathrooms.  Only 10 bedrooms, if I restrict the count to those I occupied personally.  But hey, I’m 70.  I’ll bet my total square footage would easily fit inside McCain’s smallest “home.”

Listen, we could all add up our rooms in an elitist, Democratic way that is two steps away from a class war, or we could pool our resources, get $12 million and go buy that house. The jungle themed bedroom is worth it alone. Who else wants to play the part of “that marvelous ape” in the room where Johnny grunted and sweated for momma’s brew money?

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Lessee…  The first house I remember living in was a 2 bedroom 1 bath apartment, then we moved into a 4 bedroom 2.5 bath house (that’s 6 and 3.5), then I moved to dorms for the next 6 years (does that count as one bedroom and no bath? that puts us at 9 and 3.5).  Then there were a couple of one bedroom one bath apartments (11 and 5.5). 

Now here’s the tricky part—for a few years I lived in an arts collective loft with 15 bedrooms.  I only occupied one, obviously, and had 14 roommates.  I’m going to cheat and put that in the dorm category, because that’s one of McCain’s homes right there otherwise.  There were 3 baths, so that gives me 12 and 8.5. 

After that I moved here, to another 2 bedroom 1 bath apartment, which brings our grand total to 14 bedrooms and 9-and-a-half baths in the space of 27 years.  I’ll confess that I’ve skipped a summer or two at the end of high school and first year or so of college, when my parents split up and I spent a few months here and there between like 3 or 4 houses, none of which I ever formally lived in, while everyone got their shit together.

Since graduating high school (12 years) I’ve paid for 7 bedrooms and 3 baths.  And one of those bathrooms was the size of a small closet.  As a minor we moved a lot so it’d be hard to add up.

I’ve moved sixteen times in over thirty plus years since I got out of the AF.  The largest residence has been 1700sq feet in a 3 bedroom 2 1/2 bath town house.

But just moving backwards from current, it takes me six residences to reach 13 bedrooms and 9 to reach 15 baths.

But of course, mcCain is such a man of the people, surely EVERYONE lives like this don’t they?  And if not, all you have to do is marry a beer heiress and you can do it too.

Hmmm

House I grew up in (2 adults, 8 kids, plus occasional extras): 5 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms (although 2 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms weren’t added until the year before I left home)
First apartment in university (5-6 adults): 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom
2nd apartment in university (3 adults): 1 bedroom, 1 bathroom
1st townhouse in university (4 adults): 3 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms
1st shared full house (6 adults): 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms
2nd shared full house (6 adults): 5 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms
1st apartment w/o roomates (2 adults): 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom
Basement suite (2 adults) (2 adults): 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom
Our very own mortgage (2 adults): 2 bedrooms plus library, 2 bathrooms

Total: 27 bedrooms, 15 bathrooms (some of which are half baths)

Working backwards….

2 room, 1 bath
1 room, 1 bath
Studio, 1 bath,
2 room, 1 bath
Studo, 1 bath
2 room, 1 bath
1 room, 1 bath
Couch in a 2 room, 1 bath
Storage closet in a 3 room, 2 bath
Efficiency studio, 1 bath
Shared room in Youth Shelter
Couch in 1 room, 1 bath
Couch in studio, 1 bath
Couch in 1 room, 1 bath
Studio, 1 bath

Does couch surfing count as a 1/2 room?

Childhood home 1 (house): 4 br/ 2 ba (plus separate downstairs unit 1br/1ba)
Childhood home 2 (house): 2 br/ 2 ba
Childhood home 3 (apt): 3 br/1.5 ba
Childhood home 4 (apt): 3 br/2ba
Childhood home 5 (house): 3 br/2 ba
College Apt 1: 2 br/2ba
College Apt 2: 2br/1ba
Real World Apt 1: 1br/1ba
Real World Apt 2 (current): 1br/1ba + loft office

So that makes a total of 22 bedrooms, 15.5 bathrooms, and one loft over 26 years.

And yeah…we moved a lot when I was a kid.

Ooh, fun game. 

I grew up in a family of 5 in a 3 br/1.5 bath house.  Since moving out I have lived with 3 other adults in a 2 br/1 bath apartment.  When I lived in Kenya my husband and I rented a servant’s quarter which was just a tiny bedroom and bathroom with no kitchen or any appliances.  I will count that as a studio even though it is really less than a studio.

That is a lifetime total of 6 bedrooms and 3.5 bathrooms, with an average of .55 bedrooms per person and .31 bathrooms per person.

I can get clear back to my first college apartment—if I skip 6 weeks of living with my mother during a rocky patch in my marriage.

Otherwise I get:
—places we paid for—
My house: 4 br 2 ba
rental house: 2.5 br 1 ba
rental house: 3 br 1 ba
townhouse: 2 br, 1.5 ba
apartment: 1 br 1 ba
Mom’s: 3 br, 1 ba
Victorian rental house: 1.5 br, 1 ba (4 rooms, we used one as a nursery/library/guest room)
—-college—-
apartment: 1 br, 1 ba (1 room)
rented room: 2br 2 ba
dorm: 1 br 1ba
—-parental houses—-
childhood house: 4 br 1.5 ba
duplex: 2 br 1 ba
Grandparents’ house: 3 br 1 ba
house: 2 br 1 ba

32 bedrooms, 17 baths in the course of 14 residences

Childhood from as far back as I can remember housing, 3 bdrm: 2 bath
2 dorm bedrooms, do I count the bathrooms shared with 8+ other people? If so, 2 bath
first apt, 1 bdrm, 1 bath
rented mobile home, 2 bed, 2 bath
first home 3 bed, 2 bath
bankruptcy and studio apt—0 bdrm, 1 bath
So 11 bedrooms, 10 baths

And I’m 38 years old.