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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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CJ ... there's a real difference between eccentric and mentally ill. The problem is that it's sometimes a real thin line.
My grandmother got like that before she died. She was living on Social Security, a small pension from her work in a munitions plant during WWII and the Korean War, and what I could spare. I had to start handling her checkbook after I discovered that 80% of her income was being mailed off to various & sundry televanglists, while living on sugar cookies. We had to move her in with my cousin when we found evidence of a fire that she had managed to put out before it spread.