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  • maswanmaswan@mastodon.acc.sunet.se
    Jul 3, 2026, 3:12 PM

    @futurebird
    I am lucky, perhaps, to have grown up with some of my grandmother's stories from when she was young. When they moved from the farm she spent her childhood in, they piled most of the furniture and burnt it.

    It was more reasonable to put together new stuff from planks and a farmer's approach to building useful stuff than doing many rounds with horse and cart.

    From my grandfather's on the other side, there is heirloom quality furniture as heirlooms. They were rich.

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  • Em & future cats 🇺🇦🐈🏳️‍🌈em_and_future_cats@mastodon.social
    Jul 3, 2026, 3:46 PM

    @maswan @futurebird
    Yes! I remember stories like this about houses built in the us (early days like 1600-1700) often times they would burn the house down and go through the ashes to save the nails and hinges. Much faster than taking a crowbar and hammer to it 😹 and the nails would be intact. There wasn’t a “housing market” per-se at the time in the “wilderness” (which again is a terrible term from colonialism 😾) and the conception was (at the time) that there were too many trees 🙄

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  • maswanmaswan@mastodon.acc.sunet.se
    Jul 3, 2026, 6:24 PM

    @em_and_future_cats
    In this case it was in the early 1900s, and the farm was bought out by the forestry agency because growing lumber was seen as a better use of land in northern Sweden than farming or something (I'm not 100% on the motivation, just know who forced a sale).
    @futurebird

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