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shellyl
Location: Lenoir NC Gender: Female Total Likes: 10 likes
I have learned not sweat the petty things and not to pet the sweaty things.
| | | Re: Living with a pack rat < Reply # 3 on 9/21/2008 9:28 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by Lexi My grandmother was the same way, to the point where she had a freezer where she put meat that went bad. Twenty years she stored stuff, and her house was a haven for decomposition and mold. About 6 years ago my parents sent her away for a weekend, raided her house and threw out almost everything. They got rid of all the mold on the walls, even the meat freezer - which had failed restart after a power outing, resulting in the inside of it being coated in black, hairy mold. They had to repaint a lot of the house, buy her new appliances and even do some structural work. Intervene before it gets bad!
| oooooh not quite that bad. I would shoot him first. I know older folks get that way for some reason, kinda sad but I am guessing I know where it starts. Posted by Myelin That could have been written by my wife. Solution? She relegates me and my junk to the basement. She gets everywhere else. Except now she's getting fed up with the basement too. I need more sheds.
| Are you sure you are not married to me? The basement is what prompted this . I started cleaning the basement and realized after I started that when he put the hole in the block wall for the woodstove he never cleaned the concrete chips out of the drainage channel. OMG no wonder when it floods the water is not moving very well. He has 2 barns, each are double the size of the house and 2 floors and a detached garage and they are full!
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| Emma Peel
Location: Ahowah Gender: Female Total Likes: 4 likes
Ghosting you like you've never been ghosted before.
| | | Re: Living with a pack rat < Reply # 6 on 9/22/2008 4:30 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by shellyl I know older folks get that way for some reason, kinda sad but I am guessing I know where it starts.
| If Lexi's grandmother was alive for the depression** and/or time after (watching her parents having had to deal with it, I guess) would be a good cause for pack-ratting. Many people who lived through that kept newspapers (PILES of them) and aluminum foil, and pack-ratted everything else. Weird things. Used lightbulbs. I used to do that until I realized it was stupid. So, I got rid of my HUGE wardrobe that I hadn't worn in years (Kept maybe 1/8 of the clothes I had before) and am still going through things saying to myself, "If I really need something like this, again, I'll buy another one." It's hard ... some things are just so useful. I think improving storage space helped me, and when I get on a cleaning/throwing shit out kick, it really takes over until everything is clean and/or gone : ) Good luck, shelly! **Edit: I meant the FIRST depression, not the second one ;)
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| KublaKhan
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland Total Likes: 207 likes
With Satan, it's always gimmie, gimmie.
| | | Re: Living with a pack rat < Reply # 7 on 9/22/2008 6:13 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | I once had a room-mate who saved empty toothpaste tubes. Hoarding is a strange behaviour. There's something going on in the mind of someone who can't let go of general ephemera. Toilet paper rolls. Hundreds of them. Old lottery tickets, stapled together and referenced and cross referenced against the week's winning numbers, filed away but always within reach. Want to know the winning 6 numbers from the 6/49 back in August 14, 1985? I know someone who can help you. Newspapers, magazines stacked in towers, floor to ceiling, with narrow passageways allowing a person a slim avenue from bedroom to kitchen to bathroom. Labyrinthine and complex. The Kennedy assassination is in a pile on the other side of the room, along with the Rodney King riots, OJ's verdict, the Challenger explosion. Weird behaviour.
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