Keep the Change, Ya Filthy Animal: 'Home Alone' House for Sale for $2.4 Million

Home Alone house.jpg" style="margin: 5px; float: left; width: 300px; height: 169px;" />It was made famous when a young Macaulay Culkin defended it from Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern, and now the house from "Home Alone" is up for sale. As a child of the late 80's and early 90's, the excitement over the prospect of living in that house makes me want to rob a bank so that I could buy it.

Really, it's enough to make you want to run around the house screaming with your hands on your face.

John and Cynthia Abendshein, who own the house located in WInnetka (a suburb of Chicago) are selling the 14-room house now that their children have grown up and moved out. The couple bought the home in 1988 for $875,000, and are putting it up  for sale now for $2.4 million.

If you were hoping to attend an open house and see the staircase Kevin slid down, the basement with the evil radiator, or the hallways that featured the famous Culkin scream, you can forget it: all buyers will be pre-screened, and there will be no open house.

It's a lofty price tag, but chances are good that thieves won't be eyeing the place much. After all, they saw what happened to the other guys.

Caveat emptor: paint cans, tar and feathers, Michael Jordan cardboard cut-out, zip-line to the treehouse, and tarantula not included.