250k was still a shit ton of money back then, not a round trip to the grocery store like now.
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Had so many kids that they forgot one for the longest time. TBH they were fine without him too.
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and that trump was in one of them being a creep
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My fav part is on the plane when Kevin's dad guesses that the issue is he left the garage door open... and is completely unbothered by it. This sort of thing would have ruined my dad's entire vacation.
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Aside from the house, who the hell is going to pay the electric bill.
Does every damn light in the place need to be on?
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That would be at least $350k in today’s money.
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It was a multi family household along with his aunts uncles and cousins. Probably cheaper to do it that way.
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That house is why the Lego set is so damn expensive
No it wasn't. The mom mentioned that the uncle and family drove in from Ohio.
From Google AI:
In 1990, the year the film was released, the actual house from Home Alone was purchased for $875,000. Economists from the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago have determined that, at that price, the home was only affordable to the top 1% of Chicago households at the time.
To afford the house in 1990 (assuming they spent no more than 30% of their income on housing), the McCallister family would have needed a household income of about $305,000, which is approximately $665,000 in 2022 dollars.
The house last sold in 2012 for $1.58 million and again in early 2025 for $5.5 million.
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me: jumps off of bridge
with bungee cords
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