I’ll send my sister over to help. When we held the estate sale after Mom passed, she sold everything that wasn’t nailed down, plus some stuff that was.This is going to be a long term project.![]()
Including some of my stuff that Mom had borrowed…
I’ll send my sister over to help. When we held the estate sale after Mom passed, she sold everything that wasn’t nailed down, plus some stuff that was.This is going to be a long term project.![]()
It is an upright. We will be going back over in a few days and I will get the info on it and see what wifey wants for it.Is the new freezer a chest or upright? If upright, I might be interested.
The freezer is running at -5 so I'm happy! Thanks againSome times you wish you could see them one more time, then turn them over your knee and spank their butt! We found an uncashed $1200 stimulus check, finding 9mm ammo scattered all over the house and mags for her Glock everywhere. Money just about everywhere too.
I looked under her bed today hunting for her pistol to get it back to her father. Also found the shotgun she had told me she bought. Mossy 590, covered in dust, starting to rust, and with rusted ammo loaded. I thought I taught her better than that and I know her father did.
I swear that girl never threw anything out. On the bright side we have about 14 tall kitchen trash bags stuffed with clothes going to AMVets or something. Another bag of coats donating to Warmth for Winter, and probably a ton of books and CDs we will be trying to find a home for.
At this rate it will take a month just to get all the crap out before we can start repairs on the house. I know it needs paint, flooring, and some plumbing work. Her father volunteered to foot the bill and we be repaid when the house is sold.
My mother was kind of that way. I call it the "depression era baby" mentality. Don't throw anything away, you can fix it if you need to. If you can't fix it, you can use it to make something you can use.Mom grew up in the hills during the depression so if you have parents like that they come in 2 basic varieties. "I never had a thing so now only the best for me" and "I never had a thing and I'm never going through that again. I'm holding on to every red cent I can get my hands on" Mom was in that 2nd group. Every gift went in the closet to use "later". Left overs NEVER thrown away. Keep em til they look iffy then put them in either an empty cool whip container or a piece of foil, doesn't matter, as long as you make it unidentifiable. Then freeze FOREVER. If you need a pen there were 2 or 3 cottage cheese cartons full of dried out ink pens she wouldn't part with. Sometimes after licking a couple dozen you could get a spotty signature completed. This is just the tip of the iceberg. Stubborn is not enough of a description. She wasn't actually a hoarder but she never learned to drive so that severely affects your acquisition ability. She didn't accumulate too awful much but she damn sure never threw anything away. She could be and often was the biggest pain in the ass in the universe but I miss her every day.