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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 249927" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>My grandmother was a "gift hoarder" too! With six children and nineteen grandchildren, she got lots of gifts at Christmas, Mothers Day and her birthday. Never used a one of them! She put them in a closet to use "later". She wore her same old house dresses all the time but that closet was full of brand new pretty blouses, sweaters, nightgowns and robes. Also coffee pots, mixers, can openers, electric knives, all kinds of dishes and pots and pans - all brand new, still in the boxes! She preferred to use her same 'old stuff' for every day. She still used the same dishes, serving pieces, and even some of the same furniture they got as wedding presents or bought right after their wedding ... <strong><u>in 1908</u></strong>! By the time she died in the late 1970's, some of her 'old stuff' was worth a fortune!</p><p> </p><p>That closet was her "gift closet" for everyone else. She was always trying to give it all away! If your mixer broke, she'd whip open that closet door and tell you to take your pick, and there would be three or four of them, still new in the boxes! Pretty much anything you would ever need was neatly stacked up in that closet!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 249927, member: 1883"] My grandmother was a "gift hoarder" too! With six children and nineteen grandchildren, she got lots of gifts at Christmas, Mothers Day and her birthday. Never used a one of them! She put them in a closet to use "later". She wore her same old house dresses all the time but that closet was full of brand new pretty blouses, sweaters, nightgowns and robes. Also coffee pots, mixers, can openers, electric knives, all kinds of dishes and pots and pans - all brand new, still in the boxes! She preferred to use her same 'old stuff' for every day. She still used the same dishes, serving pieces, and even some of the same furniture they got as wedding presents or bought right after their wedding ... [B][U]in 1908[/U][/B]! By the time she died in the late 1970's, some of her 'old stuff' was worth a fortune! That closet was her "gift closet" for everyone else. She was always trying to give it all away! If your mixer broke, she'd whip open that closet door and tell you to take your pick, and there would be three or four of them, still new in the boxes! Pretty much anything you would ever need was neatly stacked up in that closet! [/QUOTE]
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