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Originally posted by cj@Apr 17 2005, 07:39 PM
but the most important question hasn't yet been asked ....
IS SHE HURTING ANYONE?!
really, in the grander scheme of life, who cares if she hoards stuff ...... just hope you aren't the one who has to clean it when she goes!!
I wonder what our grandkids will be saying about us when we get to that age ...
Hopefully none of my family tries to medicate me because they disagree with how I live ...
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I have a mom that is that way... not quite as bad but she can't throw anything away... I was over there looking around a bit and noticed all kinds of out of date foods. I must have thrown away six or seven bags full of groceries... all out of date... from the fridge, from the pantry... all kinds of stuff. She has an obsession of running out of food. I would say if was due to growing up in the depression times also. I think it rubs off a bit to cause I have stuff I know I don't need or will use but I can't seem to give or throw it away and it's not worth the effort to sell for what I could get from it. Besides, most people wouldn't want it if I gave it away anyway. Like a 41 year old having leftover clothes from HS days... There has been a few times I knew I had something but it was easier to go buy a new one then to find the old one I had stashed away somewhere... I think it was a door handle set for the shed the last time... looked for over two and a half hours with with no luck... took a twenty minute trip to the store and got one for twelve bucks.
But who is she hurting?.... with the exception of the food, probally no one... Somebody should check up on if her food is up to date... I took things out of my moms fridge that was over a year old and stuff from her freezer that she had bought "reduced for quick sale" over five years old.