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RickN

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Some 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.
 

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Some 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.
The freezer is running at -5 so I'm happy! Thanks again
 
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Sorry you have to go through this.

For me, having to throw meat away is the worst. My mother had a huge freezer always loaded with steaks. Whenever she saw a sale at Omaha Steak she would order. Always a constant battle with her to rotate her freezer.
 
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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.
 

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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.
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.

We got estimates for guttering on her house one day, and before they got there she said "There's five or six feet of old guttering they could use in the garage." I said they're not going to use that, they make seamless guttering the length they need, and that's easier than trying to mate it up with old guttering. She said maybe they could take it and use it somewhere else? I laughed and said, they're not going to use it somewhere else.

She had a $10 electric digital clock stop working one day, I told her we'd get her another one and started to throw it in the trash. She said, "You could take that one home." I laughed and said yeah, because I need another clock that doesn't work. :rollingla

She was definitely not a hoarder. She kept things very neat and tidy, but she just had trouble throwing things away. She would ask half a dozen people if they wanted something that was worthless before she'd put it in the trash.
 


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