No one wants to own a bar and grill catering to social degenerates and alcoholic swine. However, when the alcoholic swine is actually a beer guzzling pig – we consider that the exception to the rule.
If you happen to have almost $4 million burning a hole in your pocket, you could own a piece of British history: Apethorpe Hall in Northamptonshire, England is for sale. And while the sprawling mansion with 48 rooms is fit for a king, it has one little drawback: there are no bathrooms.
America’s rich don’t just like to live large, they even want to slide down into their private pools in stylish fashion. While a private sports court or a pool is commonplace, a recently listed luxury estate boasts a 185-foot long serpentine water slide, one of the longest residential water slides for any home this side of the world. The asking price for the privilege to slide down at will — only $16.5 million.
I have been accused of being "out of my tree" on more than one occasion and the accusations are probably right on target. I come from the generation that climbed trees. Somewhere between my childhood and me becoming a parent the idea of a kid climbing a tree just got to be too dangerous. I used sit in the top of a big oak tree in my back yard for hours at a time.
