Denim Deb Hay, hay, hay. Thank the Lord!

[Denim Deb]

Quite truthfully, I'm more liable to trash pick something w/the idea that it can be used for something else. (Thanks, Dad. ) My Hubby buys junk, then doesn't throw it out when it breaks. He wants the junk all gone, but doesn't do anything to help me get it all sorted out. He expects me to do it all.

 

[sunsaver]

I used to collect and repair broken antique furniture and chairs found along the roadside for garbage pick-up. Finally, my entire front porch was stacked with antique furniture and old broken chairs. 'This is totally absurd!' I thought one day. I gave all the furniture away, and i now have a front porch again.
These days i only collect parts that i intend to use for ss projects, and store them in the power shed. I have a guest bedroom full of appliances that i need to sell or throw out. Other than than that, i am living a minimalist life-style. I'm always turning away friends who are trying to give me their junk. "No thanks! I got enough of my own junk! The last thing i need is more stuff!" So i seem to be over-riding the hoarding gene in my DNA.

 

[Denim Deb]

SS, so glad there's at least 1 man out there that has overcome that gene. And, I wonder if it's really male related. I know some ladies who hoard stuff on the idea that it may come in handy one day. I trash pick-but only if I'm pretty sure it's something I can reuse. (Like the turtle sand box-when I get ducks, it will be their "pond"!)

In other news, Penny is still sitting on her nest. There are now just 7 eggs in it. W/all the eggs that have exploded, I doubt very much that even if any of the eggs were good that they've survived. I thought about buying some chicks if I could find them. But, now that might not be needed. Today, I go to check Roxi's nest. As of yesterday, there were 13 eggs in it-6 of Angels, and 7 of hers. Roxi was sitting on the nest when I got there around 12:30. I kept going back to check to see if she had laid an egg. And, every time I checked, she was still there. When I left at 2:30, she was still there. So, she may have gone broody as well! If she has, I'll see if I can't find a couple of pullets. Otherwise, poor Angel will be the only hen for a least another week!

I will be so glad when my job is done. I found myself wanting to go home in the worst way today. I just don't want to be there. I'm fine when I'm at the farm, but at work, it really gets to me.

 

[sunsaver]

I had a customer who was a "true" hoarder. Her house was so full of stuff that you could barely get around in there. I guess she attached sentimental value to everything, even old magazines. I just wanted to put her in a motel and clean out her entire house. How can anyone live like that? I felt so sorry for her.

 

[Denim Deb]

I helped clean out a house like that when I was a teenager. The woman died, and her son paid me $2.00/hour to help him get rid of the stuff. And, I could keep anything I wanted.

 

[Farmfresh]

My mom was a horder, so I totally understand that women can be a pack rat as well as a guy can.

What I don't understand is when hubby brings home things that are totally random.

A few years ago he bought a bowling pin at a yard sale and brought it home. It needs to be understood that no one in the house bowls and hubby only bowled during summer camp one year as a kid. He didn't like it then. I asked him why he bought it. The answer?
Because it was "a real bowling pin".
What are we going to do with a "real bowling pin"?
"Put it in the living room for a conversation piece."

It took several years before that "real bowling pin" finally joined OUR garage sale line up.

 

[savingdogs]

FF, that is exactly how my hubby is. He adds comments like "I can sell it on EBay." He actually never gets around to taking pictures of things and selling them on EBay and usually they are not something I would buy......but he also refuses to have garage sales. We had a few when we were first married and he STILL, 25 years later, ribs me about some of the things I sold. It just kills him to part with things, and he has stacks of projects.

 

[abifae]

I don't attach sentimental value to much anything. I throw out cards, photos, etc etc. *shrugs*

I'll keep things I can USE later, but not because they "mean something". That seems a bit schizophrenic to me.

 

[savingdogs]

I don't save that stuff either. I have a friend who makes a scrap book of her Christmas cards she receives every year....she finds it soothing to make scrap books she says. I occasionally have framed an especially beautiful greeting card however.

 

[abifae]

Well, yeh. If it is ART, that's different.

Neither of my parents are pack rats. It never occurred to me to be. I think a lot of it is in how you are raised.

My Dar's mom has a house you cannot walk through because she keeps everything. And she doesn't clean, on top of it. I can hardly visit anyone in their family because I find it disgusting (jugs of milk rotting in corner, and not GOOD rot. Store bought milk months old... stuff like that. I can handle CLUTTER to some extent, but not... MESS).