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Happy New Year to my real virtual friends!
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Comments (4)What a great way to start the day----it gets it all in perspectivesightedness!!!! Thanks, Lilo! (Did you make those up? If you did, stop hoeing and start writng!!!)...See MoreQuote Friday December 2
Comments (5)This is a keeper! Think I need to print it and post it on my closet door. I especially liked #6 about world peace and nomads. Thanks, Lilo, for smiles and food for thought, too....See MoreFun thing I found going through old stuff
Comments (5)So neat that you found that. My parents got married in 1955, and my mom started keeping a budget book then. They didn't have much and had to watch every penny. Amazingly, she still keeps a buget book even though they certainly don't have to watch their pennies any more. Looking back through those books is like looking at a family history....See Moregoing through old things, purging, getting ready to sell
Comments (10)Oh I can relate. DH had a grandmother and an old maid aunt...guess who got all their stuff. His folks had an apartment in NYC and the old house here. Guess who got all their stuff. Then my Mom had to clean out their old house after Dad passed...50+ years of accumulation and both were pack rats. Guess who got a lot of their stuff. She moved into a condo here and had a house in FL besides. When she passed, guess who got all her stuff from those 2 places. Let alone our own stuff and moving out of the old house and into the new house. Is it any wonder we left the upstairs in the new house just attic space? Any wonder that it looks like a goodwill store? And the tension one suffers between, this is still good, how can I throw it out...but do I really need 14 wooden spoons? And then you get this weird support for keeping it...like when our can opener busted and we just went to the attic to get another one...and there's still another up there... And trying to get rid of stuff that was in DH's family triggers this strong reaction in him, like a hoarder, that I'm not tossing a dishtowel, but a piece of his family history and how dare I! So I know that an awful lot of this stuff I'll have to deal with once he's gone. We too are orphans with no children, nieces or nephews and ends of the line. So I know a lot of this stuff will be meaningless to many. We both have cousins though who have children so will probably pass some stuff down to them. The rest will just have to go. And yes, looking at photos of people who looked so young and carefree, and knowing ex post how their lives ended, often in such sad and painful ways. It is truly heart wrenching. A labor required of those of us who are the end of the line. Not easy, I know. But there it is. On the other side though, we've been working at cleaning out over 60 years of accumulation and mess in the barn...while it is dirty nasty work, there is something wonderful about looking at the space that you just cleaned up, all the room you've made, finding treasures you didn't know you had amongst the detritus of accumulation, and that sense of accomplishment at having made a tremendous difference. So there's that too....See More
4 years agoThank you, Eld! A very Happy, Healthy and Prosperous New year back to you, and to all my KT friends!
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