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Did you share a bedroom with your sibling(s) when you were growing up? If so, an older sibling or younger sibling? ~

Posted - December 1, 2020
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  • 44358
    My two brothers and I shared a bedroom, and my three sisters shared another. Both of my brothers were younger.
      December 1, 2020 11:33 AM MST
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  • 53016

     

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      December 1, 2020 12:19 PM MST
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  • 4625
    Did you find your younger brothers pesky?
      December 2, 2020 11:56 PM MST
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  • 44358
    Of course...that was their job.
      December 3, 2020 7:39 AM MST
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  • 10500
    I shared a room with my brother and sister until my brother became so large that his butt was touching sister's nose when she slept (he had the top bunk bed). At that point, sis got her own room and they built an addition to the house for us boys.  I shared a room with my brother until I finally had enough paper route money ($200) to have the chicken coop out back made into room for my brother (yes, it was a real chicken coop). 
    {And that's also one of the reasons how I became an uncle at 14.}
      December 1, 2020 1:45 PM MST
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  • 7777
    Nope! I'm an only child and had everything to myself which wasn't all that great.
      December 1, 2020 1:55 PM MST
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  • 4625
    Yep. You get all your parents' attention focused on you, and it's not always positive.
    My Mum was an only child. She grew up very lonely but also, due to lack of opportunities for social interaction, painfully shy.
      December 2, 2020 11:59 PM MST
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  • 19942
    My three younger sisters and I shared a bedroom.  We had two sets of bunk beds and the two youngest ones slept on the top beds.
      December 1, 2020 2:38 PM MST
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  • 53016

     

      Was the upper bunk sleeping arrangement their preference, or was it thrust upon them by the two Bigs?

      When I was in the Marines, I always preferred the top rack* instead of the bottom one, and for good reason: Throughout the day in the barracks, anyone and everyone always sat on the bottom rack, even if it wasn’t his own. Hardly anyone, however, ever fixed the rack after sitting in it and wrecking the linen. If you take the bottom rack, you may have quicker and easier access to the deck (floor), but all day long you’re either fixing your rack because of all the inconsiderate s**tbirds in the squad bay, or the corporal, the sergeant comes through, sees your rack on a mess, and the next thing you know, you’re on his list.


    *In military jargon, only the Army refers to them as “bunks”.  In the parlance of sea services (Navy, Coast Guard, and Marine Corps), they’re called “racks”.




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      December 1, 2020 4:21 PM MST
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  • 19942
    I was almost 16 when my youngest sister was born.  At that age, I wasn't climbing up to the top bunk.
      December 1, 2020 8:58 PM MST
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  • 53016

     

      Lol. When I was 16, I would have loved to have climbed up there every night, especially to lord over younger sibs!

    :)

      December 1, 2020 9:06 PM MST
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  • 19942
    Not if you were overweight like I was. :)
      December 2, 2020 6:50 AM MST
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  • 53016

     

      Oh.
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      December 3, 2020 6:50 AM MST
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  • 44358
    I got the middle racks on my three ships
      December 2, 2020 7:28 AM MST
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      December 2, 2020 11:36 PM MST
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  • 44358
    The bottom pic is close.
      December 3, 2020 7:41 AM MST
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  • 53016

     

      I believe the top two pictures show World War II-era ships, or possibly Korean War-era.
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      December 3, 2020 7:51 AM MST
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  • 44358
    That was brutal. Ours was tolerable.
      December 3, 2020 7:58 AM MST
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  • 33002
    I shared a room with my sister until about 8th grade. I am 5yrs older. 
      December 2, 2020 6:36 AM MST
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  • 4625
    Until she was about eight and I ten, yes.

      December 2, 2020 11:55 PM MST
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