
A home can be a big as a palace or as small as a condominium unit. The building structure is not as important as the people who occupy that building. The people are the ones who give meaning to a home. Home may be just a rented room, yet it can be called a home as long as a person considers it as a place of residence. Homes in third world countries may even be just shanties made out of discarded materials such as plywood, tarpaulin, cartoon boxes and rusty galvanized roof. A home can be just a mere tent of a nomad family in the Gobi desert of Mongolia or the igloos of the Eskimos. A home is the place of refuge where a person may reside and feel comfortable and safe.
A house, on the other hand, has some minimum requirements for it to be called a house, structurally at least. A house may need
mortgage loan financing to be constructed. A house must be permanently located in a lot. A
mobile home or trailer, technically, cannot be considered a house. A house must at least have a roof, walls, doors, windows, floor and rooms made out of durable materials such as wood, metal or cement. A fully functional house must also have a
electrical power and water supply. The durability of a house is dependent on the materials from which it is constructed. For instance, a house of brick may last for a century whereas a wooden house may only last half that time.
Making a scrapbook is not as easy as it looks. It may take most of a person's time, from the task of buying materials and compiling photos and souvenirs to actually creating the scrapbook album itself. As such, it cannot be avoided to have some more clutt
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