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What do you call your home?
  • MarySunshineMarySunshine
    Posts: 5,453Member
    Since DH and I have been married we've always referred to our home with a pet name. Our first house was Casa de Y****** (I'm not telling you weirdos my last name...you might know my ILs! LOL) Our new home is The Y***** Center of Excellence.

    I dunno why we do it, but it makes us chuckle. We also refer to ourselves at Team Y******. I love that we do that. It reminds me that we are a team and everything we take on or do in life we do together, as a team. :-)
    I'm as sexy as a burp mid-kiss. Watch out!

  • unforgivenunforgiven
    Posts: 12,700Confessional Manager
    Aww that's so sweet! We don't have house or team names :(

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    What sounds like thunder is a comforting voice
    When what is beautiful looks broken and crushed
    And I say I don't know you
    But you say it's finished"
  • BakingmommyBakingmommy
    Posts: 401Member
    We call ours the Weekend Lake House, because when we first bought it, we could only be there and work on it during the weekends, and it's near a lake.  It's just kind of stuck and everyone thinks I'm nuts when I call it that.
  • Luvlyssa
    Posts: 2,951Member
    @callieflower82 do you name your cars too?
    Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming, swimming, swimming. What do we do? We swim, swim.
  • chaosmomchaosmom
    Posts: 3,846Member
    I love that you call your home that @callieflower82! It makes me smile every time I see it :)

    I do not have a single creative bone, tendon or ligament in my body. My house is just that...the house.
  • MarySunshineMarySunshine
    Posts: 5,453Member
    Try it! It's fun...and I think it adds an extra layer of unity and partnership, you know? I mean we are gross...we're that couple that's been attached at the hip forever. And now that we have little ones we call them the Team Y***** Peewee League. LOL
    I'm as sexy as a burp mid-kiss. Watch out!

  • FoulMouthedSailorFoulMouthedSailor
    Posts: 1,899Member
    The -XYZ- Center for Kids Who Can't Read Good and Wanna Learn to Do Other Stuff Good Too, Xyz being my last name.
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  • MarySunshineMarySunshine
    Posts: 5,453Member
    @luvlyssa HA! I name my cars. I've only had two. My first car, Bessie, was a grey '91 Buick Skylark. My present car is Pixie. She's a 2004 Santa Fe. And I will always refer to them as female....like ships are referred to as "she".

    DH is a car whore. In the 12 years he has had his lisence he has had 12 cars. No names for them. LOL
    I'm as sexy as a burp mid-kiss. Watch out!

  • LoveLove
    Posts: 12,775Administrator, Moderator
    We call our abode "The Pondersosa" lol like off of Bonanza...

    Time to head to the Ponderosa!

    Oh eta: My truck is affectionately known as "Black Betty". Dh's truck is less affectionately known as "you sorry piece of mFing crap!" LOL

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  • MarySunshineMarySunshine
    Posts: 5,453Member
    @chaosmom Thank you! I think some of our family snicker at us behind our backs, but they can fuck off. They're unoriginal bastards anyway lol. It's DH and I against the world, and we'll be kicking ass and taking names. :ar!
    I'm as sexy as a burp mid-kiss. Watch out!

  • MaryPoppins25
    Posts: 1,686Member
    We call it homo... But we add o to the end of random things. Another frequent one would be drivo as in "wanna go for a drivo" "time to go homo" and although we rarely use her name our car is called Roxanne, she's red.
  • BakingmommyBakingmommy
    Posts: 401Member
    @Love, my dad calls his house the Ronderosa and his boat is called the Rontoon.
  • Luvlyssa
    Posts: 2,951Member
    @callieflower82 LOL If you had 12 partners in 12  years you wouldn't remember their names either... so since he's a car whore why remember their names?! ;) (I'm KIDDING!)

    @eapple HAHHAHAH I do that and then feel bad saying "homo" ....
    Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming, swimming, swimming. What do we do? We swim, swim.
  • BellaBefanaBellaBefana
    Posts: 8,186Member
    oh, I name my cars, doesn't everybody?  And my GPS was Molly.  
    Bite me, cupcake!
  • MaryPoppins25
    Posts: 1,686Member
    @luvlyssa lol I used to but now I refuse to feel bad because that is not the context I am using it in at all!
  • MarySunshineMarySunshine
    Posts: 5,453Member
    @luvlyssa I always tell him I'd rather him go through cars than women....provided we can afford the car payments. LOL
    I'm as sexy as a burp mid-kiss. Watch out!

  • Luvlyssa
    Posts: 2,951Member
    @eapple if I weren't secretly a 12 year old boy... I wouldn't feel bad either. but I am. so I giggle. (Like a 12 year old boy)
    Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming, swimming, swimming. What do we do? We swim, swim.
  • BakingmommyBakingmommy
    Posts: 401Member
    As far as cars go, we have the Asscrack (it's a peice of shit full of cracks and it's an aztec), big birtha/red/bitchy - she's a red expedition now in retirement, the exploder - it's (no it doesn't get a gender) a explorer that has 101 problems and a bitch IS one, and a silver bullet - my dads most recent  silver mini van that does 0-0 in no time flat.
  • Beach_HippieBeach_Hippie
    Posts: 126Member
    We call our home The Hatch, it's a "LOST" reference...

    I call my car The Minnow because it's tiny. I used to drive a silver Buick Regal and called it The Shark, so when I got my little Toyota...well...it's no shark.
  • AnonUser26
    Posts: 1,144Guest
    We call ours "the estate". Cause we're fancy.
  • OxiMOMOxiMOM
    Posts: 3,028Member
    it used to be known as the hobbit hole  now its just that Shit hole that i bought thinking it would be a great idea  and now i have 150K of equity in it and cant borrow a freaking dime against it.  or that shit hole we need to sell. or guess whats wrong with the shit hole now....
    my car  is Tiger Lilly but since it sounds like i may have a slight rod knock as of today its the POS car thats gonna blow up before i even pay it off. 
  • MistressHeidiMistressHeidi
    Posts: 973Member
    @OxiMOM LOL!!! I call my house hell. As in "go to hell", "can't I'm already here." But I may have to change it to shit hole, I like it better. I call my car the ugly ass van. I hate my car, it has a problem with the transmission so it's always slipping out of gear, plus a million other little problems, but it's paid for and so far it's still running and I can't afford another.
  • sunnymommasunnymomma
    Posts: 2,244Member
    My car is Lucy as in lucy in the sky with diamonds. in my family we have always named our cars. the house is called club 28, its always bumpin' lol 
    “There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.”
    ― John Lennon
  • katz_meowkatz_meow
    Posts: 4,236Member
    Ours is "the Haus" (cuz we're from and in Pittsburgh, and that's how everyone says it here..lol)

    And at Halloween it's the Bates Motel.
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  • Jjva
    Posts: 47Member
    We didn't name our house and DH doesn't name his cars, but i do. Current one is Ned. Last one was Gus. Before that I had Chino and prior to that was a racially offensive name that I won't repeat here.... :-S
  • DemandaDemanda
    Posts: 4,470Member
    I've never named my house but I named my magnolia tree Magnes.
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  • missmama5missmama5
    Posts: 3,638Member

    My home is charmingly called "The Zoo", in reference to the barbarian men I live with and my 5 insane pets. And the car gets referred to as Whipped Cream. Honestly, don't ask me, DH made that one up. He used to just call it our "whip" (yeah he's so cool) but it transformed into Whipped Cream. It's not white, either. It's navy blue. Sigh... men.

  • fatchickonabikefatchickonabike
    Posts: 5,495Member

    My parents have always named their cars. Mom had a Suzuki Swift named Suzie Q. Dad had a Volkswagen Eurovan named Vincent (Van Go, get it?). After he totalled Vincent by rear-ending a tow truck (ironically), he got a replacement Eurovan named Claude (short for Jean-Claude Van Damn).


    Our current vehicle, a Subaru Forester, does not have a name. However, our GPS is named Karen after Plankton's computer wife in SpongeBob.

    "The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in, shock-proof bullshit detector.” - Ernest Hemingway
  • momofdbbmomofdbb
    Posts: 9,078Member
    Lol we call the house we live in Gannas. (:| One day hopefully [-O< we will be able to call somewhere "ours". The kids like "daddies house "' it is really an apartment.
    My first car was " Bessie" lol she came with the name. Brown oldsmobile, old. I loved the car. Current car silver Prysm, I have a princess crown on the attena ( sp?) so she is " The Princess Moblie " but don't tell DS that. Lol.
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  • beachmommybeachmommy
    Posts: 2,517Member

    We call our home "The Beach House" (for obvious reasons) but when we describe it we say "it's tall & skinny, just like I wanna be".

    My truck I call "Big Red" or just "JEEP" (this is said in a very loud voice - I also call this out whenever I see another Jeep out driving)

    My GPS was "King William Lloyd the Third".  He was sadly kidnapped. 

    My beach is still Sandy....
  • missmama5missmama5
    Posts: 3,638Member
    @beachmommy HA! We used to do that when we had our Jeep!  Whoever saw another Jeep would yell JEEP! And our Jeep was bright yellow and so, having a 3 year old at the time, we called it Bumblebee. He loved that damn vehicle. So did my man-child DH.
  • Katescrazymom
    Posts: 1,849Member
    The asylum. I'm not sure who the inmates are, me or the kids?
  • VswanVswan
    Posts: 37Member
    The abode.
  • Texas
    Posts: 103Member
    I call my place lots of things but it has no official name. I call my car "Little Girl". Only because I'm afraid she'll break down if I call her anything else lol. And she's a girl because all my cars are girls. I had a Cadillac Deville that I named Cruella... Cruella Deville ;)
  • BookMum
    Posts: 717Member
    It only has a name when i clean...i call it The Big Bitch. But really "home" to us is literally a spiritual place with an actual life force that loves and takes care of us....were weird that way.
    I shall futterwacken...vigorously*
  • jezebeldelilahjezebeldelilah
    Posts: 337Member
    We call our home the tower of hell. Lol its 3 stories and we got it before I became disabled. Dh always says well honey no physical therapy this week you have climbed the tower of hell 7 times. I cannot wait to sell and find a rancher or something more suited.
  • ImWendyImWendy
    Posts: 6,561Member
    I call mine a dump. Lol.
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  • ButterflyButterfly
    Posts: 80Member
    I borrowed the idea from a book, and I've dubbed myself "Lady A******, of the House of Testosterone."  DS5 is The Crown Prince (that's how we order for him in restaurants), and DS2 is the Little Prince.
  • DoesMyAssLookBig
    Posts: 82Member

    We call our house The Pit, as in The Money Pit. 

     

    My car is The Beast; my daughter's beetle is Ruby.  My GPS is Gabby - as in she won't ever stop gabbing.

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  • regpregp
    Posts: 1,018Member
    We name everything lol

    GPS is Tim
    pool vacuuming robot is Herby
    DH truck is Shelly
    my Outlander is the Grocery Getter
    Home is called the name of our street, similar to Rockhaven
    kids' dad's house is called the name of the street it's on, similar to Shangrila

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  • French_momFrench_mom
    Posts: 1,540Member
    @MammaTeeRoll  My bf's mistress is his computer.

    We sometimes refere to our house as : La Maison de Fous    yeah pretty much alysum too

    My first car was Baby. I was in love with that car. 
    The second one i hated with a passion : Berta

    As i grew up the name stoped. At lease out loud. Bf's cars were all affectionnaly named  trashcan on wheels. 
    The minivan is the house on wheels.  You can find pretty much anything in it. Gotta love kids...


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  • theirMYdorks
    Posts: 5Member
    Our house is ( our last name ) house of magic. Sounds mysterious...