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Tubular Monkey said:
They could have had a brand new, clean, safe house. All they had to do was nothing. Just sit back, agree to what the grownups tell them, and get a free house for being stupid and burning down the old one. And they* fought it. They kicked and screamed and said NO! They were essentially handed a winning lottery ticket, but tore it up because they wanted more.
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Maybe. Unless people have sources they're withholding for now, we're still not certain what sort of settlement was being offered, and for all we know it might not have been enough to put them in a new house. I suspect they were offered something less than the cost to rebuild 14BLC but still more than sufficient when added to the land value sale of 14BLC to put them in a nice, little two bedroom somewhere nearby, but Barb refused anything less than the full restoration of 14BLC (because it's not just where she put the hoard, it's part of it). Or it could have been just $20k and nine months free rent. Until we get real details its all just speculation. The only thing certain is Barb has not handled things well. Or sanely.
hurrhurrhurr said:
Considering they still own the property, they might just drop a trailer next to the burned down husk of the house.
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Depending on permits and zoning. Really, that's probably what they should have done from the start if they absolutely had to keep their old address: level the house, pour a slab, and drop in a double wide. And modern manufactured homes can actually be pretty nice; certainly nicer than 14BLC was even before they torched it.
Marvin said:
Nah, they might not have the space in their new place. Storage unit.
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I think it's pretty much guaranteed they won't have space wherever they wash up. And rental storage units are the obvious, stupid, money wasting solution (and we're talking a LOT of money). In fact I would not be at all surprised if they don't have a few storage units already, possibly from even before the fire. Hoarders do that sort of thing, and I'm not convinced all the barbage they've pulled from 14BLC would fit in their current rental. The dumpster was the more economical long term solution, but that would have made sense and Barb will have no truck with it.

Speaking of which, I really feel sorry for their landlord right now, because he's going to have to deal with whatever they leave behind for lack of storage. And whatever they abandon will be pretty horrifying indeed for Barb not to take it with her. Cleaning up after people like the Chandlers is never pleasant.

Of course there is the faint possibility he might find himself in possession of a lot of barely used new legos as well, so here's hoping for that silver lining.
Tubular Monkey said:
Barb might also attempt to sue State Farm for being trolling mean and making her homeless. It can't see her going down without a fight.
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I gather she's already suing State Farm.
In the end, if they don't get arrested for stupidity, they'll probably get a small apartment or trailer. And it will probably be Chris's home for the rest of his free life.
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If it isn't a trailer it will probably be a string of increasingly crappy apartments. The Chandlers are undoubtedly lousy tenants, and I don't see them being able to maintain a lease once their landlord sees how they live. Trailer homes can actually be pretty inexpensive; sometimes as little as a few thousand for used ones. The real expense there comes from slab rental in a trailer home community, but that's something the Chandlers could probably manage indefinitely. Even the Chandlers would be hard pressed to find a way to permanently damage a trailer slab.
RandyCox said:
I wonder if this has anything to do with Chris updating his OK Cupid profile. Things are getting down to the wire and he needs a Sweetheart from the Ground-up to provide him shelter.
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You might have something there. It certainly fits his M.O. of looking for someone to solve his problems instead of trying to solve then himself. Even if it's just coincidence in this case, we can probably expect him to do increasingly desperate things of that nature as the move out day approaches. Or maybe he'll just remain willfully oblivious before making an 11th hour call to Rocky.
Alec Benson Leary said:
I'm willing to bet that over the past 6 months, they've spent enough money on a storage unit for their old ruined furniture that they could have just purchased a nice new set of furniture.
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So it's confirmed they do have a storage unit already? Idiots. Leave it to the Chandlers to squander a perfectly good dumpster.

Ikea is often cheaper than storage units and definitely cheaper than furniture moving. Maybe that's a sad commentary on our disposable society as a whole, but for the Chandler's specifically it's something they really should have thought about.
Picklechu said:
IIRC, one brother also booby-trapped the place so the other couldn't leave. I now have the image of :snorlax: setting up traps in the Hoard to "protect mah treshurs!"
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That's what the dogs and cats were for: setting "traps".
stack said:
I'm sure this is just a typo, but it's become my new favorite description of the barb horde.
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Actually Alec coined "Barbage" IIRC. And it's so damned apropos I make a point to use it whenever called for (I've actually found myself saying it IRL a few times too - even had to explain it once).
Sweet and Savoury said:
Has anyone figured out what has changed yet?
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Demolition waste in the dumpster etc. instead of just more barbage. And that's significant. Read the thread.
generalmeldor said:
I kinda want to go in there, just to see what's inside, like an urban exploration project.
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If skyraider's source is what I think it is, interior shots are probably forthcoming eventually.
 
Picklechu said:
IIRC, one brother also booby-trapped the place so the other couldn't leave. I now have the image of :snorlax: setting up traps in the Hoard to "protect mah treshurs!"
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No I think one brother booby-trapped it out of fear outsiders would break in to steal their garbage and the other brother couldn't leave because he was disabled (blind I think it was). The end result was the brother who set the traps got killed by one of his own traps and the disabled brother who depended on him to bring him food starved to death afterwards.
 
Absinthe said:
I wonder if weens have been nominating the Chandlers for one of those reality shows where they rebuild houses, because hurr Chris on TV wld be teh lulz.
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Imagine if Chris and Barb were on extreme makeover: Home Edition. It woyld be classic. I could imagine then designing a Lego, Pony and Sonic themed room and than Chris will beg them to give him a sweetheart:lol:.
 
Absinthe said:
I wonder if weens have been nominating the Chandlers for one of those reality shows where they rebuild houses, because hurr Chris on TV wld be teh lulz.
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fridgesrants said:
Imagine if Chris and Barb were on extreme makeover: Home Edition. It woyld be classic. I could imagine then designing a Lego, Pony and Sonic themed room and than Chris will beg them to give him a sweetheart:lol:.
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they could try but producers would need the chandlers' permission to be on tv. and it's not like they'd even answer the phone or believe that it was legit
 
stack said:
I'm sure this is just a typo, but it's become my new favorite description of the barb horde.
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A-№1 said:
Actually Alec coined "Barbage" IIRC. And it's so damned apropos I make a point to use it whenever called for (I've actually found myself saying it IRL a few times too - even had to explain it once).
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For anyone who isn't aware, Hitler made an emoticon for it.
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CatParty said:
they could try but producers would need the chandlers' permission to be on tv. and it's not like they'd even answer the phone or believe that it was legit
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Yep, this is exactly what happened when weens tried to get them on A&E's Hoarders show. There's a screencap of the email exchange on the CWCki.
Edit: that's apparently dubious information, never mind
 
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CatParty said:
they could try but producers would need the chandlers' permission to be on tv. and it's not like they'd even answer the phone or believe that it was legit
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Even if the chandlers did think that they were legit, The drama and headaches that they would give the producers would probably not be making the show worth it.
 
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This like watching a train wreck in slow motion.

On a related note, what will the CWCki Forums do when Chris drops off the grid? I like the community here, and I don't want it to disappear.
 
Picklechu said:
IIRC, one brother also booby-trapped the place so the other couldn't leave. I now have the image of :snorlax: setting up traps in the Hoard to "protect mah treshurs!"
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That seems like it would make a good boss fight in Dead Rising or something. Chris and Barb holed up in a crap filled house surrounded by a booby trapped maze made out of the hoard, and you have to navigate through the hoard while they take potshots at you with sniper rifles from the peaks of barbage. That'd be pretty hilarious.
 
Marvin said:
*sigh* This is really obviously fake.
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it most definitely is fake. take it from a person working in television. the absolute most a producer would do is call or email. no one would ever got to the house and knock on the door.
 
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