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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 533207" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>OMG! You have also just described my grandmother, the "pack rat", perfectly! She was famous for doing this! She had six children, nineteen grandchildren, and an infinite number of great-grandchildren so every Christmas, birthday and Mothers Day, she got dozens of gifts. Did she ever use any of them? Absolutely not! All the nice new things found their way into a downstairs bedroom closet so she could "save" them for later! She wore thirty year old house dresses and if she wanted to work in the yard, she would put on a pair of my grandfather's old pants hitched up at the waist and one of his old work shirts. She was still using the same dishes and kitchen things that she had when my dad was a kid! But that closet was overflowing with brand new dresses she had been given, pretty sweaters, slippers, nightgowns, brand new sets of dishes and cookware still in the boxes, tons of new sheets, towels and blankets, plus multiples of every small appliance ever invented. She was "saving" it all for later! And then she'd try to give it away, sometimes to the same one who had given it to her in the first place! If your mixer died, she'd pull four or five brand new ones out of that closet and tell you to take your pick! She wasn't a hoarder, the first and second floors of her old house were always neat and tidy and never cluttered. But OMG! Her basement! It was like a museum! Her basement contained every toy, game, book, record album and article of clothing that my dad and his siblings had ever had as kids, all organized in to neat rows! And considering that my dad was born in 1909, that went back a ways! It wasn't "hoarding", she just thought that some day one of us might need some of that stuff! We were living in a different state when she died so we weren't in on it but I can't even imagine what all they must have found when they cleaned out that house after she died! I sincerely hope they had a knowledgeable antiques dealer come in to look at that stuff and didn't just throw it all out!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 533207, member: 1883"] OMG! You have also just described my grandmother, the "pack rat", perfectly! She was famous for doing this! She had six children, nineteen grandchildren, and an infinite number of great-grandchildren so every Christmas, birthday and Mothers Day, she got dozens of gifts. Did she ever use any of them? Absolutely not! All the nice new things found their way into a downstairs bedroom closet so she could "save" them for later! She wore thirty year old house dresses and if she wanted to work in the yard, she would put on a pair of my grandfather's old pants hitched up at the waist and one of his old work shirts. She was still using the same dishes and kitchen things that she had when my dad was a kid! But that closet was overflowing with brand new dresses she had been given, pretty sweaters, slippers, nightgowns, brand new sets of dishes and cookware still in the boxes, tons of new sheets, towels and blankets, plus multiples of every small appliance ever invented. She was "saving" it all for later! And then she'd try to give it away, sometimes to the same one who had given it to her in the first place! If your mixer died, she'd pull four or five brand new ones out of that closet and tell you to take your pick! She wasn't a hoarder, the first and second floors of her old house were always neat and tidy and never cluttered. But OMG! Her basement! It was like a museum! Her basement contained every toy, game, book, record album and article of clothing that my dad and his siblings had ever had as kids, all organized in to neat rows! And considering that my dad was born in 1909, that went back a ways! It wasn't "hoarding", she just thought that some day one of us might need some of that stuff! We were living in a different state when she died so we weren't in on it but I can't even imagine what all they must have found when they cleaned out that house after she died! I sincerely hope they had a knowledgeable antiques dealer come in to look at that stuff and didn't just throw it all out! [/QUOTE]
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