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how did grandpa earn his money? He had a nice big house with a view...

posted 8 years ago by anonreviewer
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how did grandpa get that big house? did he build it himself? Was he a successful taxidermist?

[–] RiseyRisa 8 years ago

I don't think it really matters what he did for a job, most likely a man his age was on retirement and had time to do taxidermy either as a little side job to earn extra money, or just a hobby.

[–] jpowell180 7 years ago

Also he most likely bought the house many years earlier, when the land was much cheaper.....

[–] Otter (24464) 6 years ago

Yeah, he probably bought the place when it was farmland on a dirt road ten miles from town.

Santa Cruz has expanded a lot since I was a kid, it's moved up the coast and farmland has become McMansions.

[–] twominds79 7 years ago

He ran all the pot in the west coast . Taxidermy was a front for the cash .

[–] PrimeMinisterOfTheSinister 7 years ago

How the hell would we know? You watched the same movie we did and they didn't say. Does it really matter?

[–] Bodhi316 7 years ago

Golden!!

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

i often wonder how people with next no income got those houses in movies , like that lush pad Kurt Russel had in that one where Goldie Hawn loses her memory

[–] ODB82 (2055) 6 years ago

So Bundy's house?

[–] Otter (24464) 6 years ago

Or how was in "Mrs. Doubtfire", Robjn Williams loses his job and is kicked out by his wife, and he moves to a spacious San Francisco apartment that probably cost about 5K a month to rent.

[–] DracTarashV2 (4475) 6 years ago

Vampire Hunter. Isn’t it obvious? :} He made a lucrative career out of it back in the day, and thus he could afford to own the place.

But, who’s to say he didn’t get the place for cheap? Might’ve been sold by someone who wanted to get the hell out of vampireland. Or he could’ve built it himself many years ago. It’s anyone’s guess...

[–] kenburke (2284) 6 years ago

Pension payments.

[–] pepetoony (1538) a year ago

I was wondering myself how he just happened to have not one, not two, but THREE spare bedrooms available!

[–] Burk48917 (11003) 9 days ago

The house was kind of a shithole