Message:

<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TallCakes, post: 81761, member: 107&quot;]another hoarder tale:</p><p>My sister&#039;s MIL was a senile hoarder. During her last years at her home she would go to the market and purchase 3 or 4 standard household items like dish detergent, paper towels, and a couple of other items. She would bring the bags home and put them in different rooms throughout the house where they accumulated. The dining table was set with china and silverware in place for a family dinner, but then the table was covered with layer upon layer of old mail, newspapers and magazines; it&#039;s a wonder the table didn&#039;t collapse from the weight. She could barely walk thru the kitchen with the stacks of papers and mail, along with those filled bags from the market.</p><p><br /></p><p>She long told her two grown &#039;boys&#039; that they would need to go thru everything when she died. What she did was hide money literally everywhere. She was a child of the great depression, which may provide some insight into her actions. She would sew money into pillows, stuff cash into socks and clothes in drawers throughout the house. She would buy new shoes and stuff cash down into the toes, and then stack the new boxes of shoes in the closet never worn. She&#039;d also sew cash into hems, pillows and cushions. She used cash for bookmark.</p><p><br /></p><p>Several years ago MIL had to move in with sis and BIL because her dementia had progressed to the point that she could not function on her own. For a short time she would still drive to her house to check on things; it was only about a 5 mile trip. That&#039;s all ended when she sailed thru a red traffic light and sideswiped another car. She ran the car into a vacant lot adjacent to the traffic light. She looked around in her confusion and couldn&#039;t figure out what happened. So she drove back to sister&#039;s house. She told sis that someone had run her off the road and kept on going; she didn&#039;t know what to do so just came home. About that time the police are pulling into the driveway ready to cuff MIL for leaving the scene of an accident. Meanwhile sis had called BIL to come home; he arrived shortly after the police. Fortunately, after the policeman &#039;talked&#039; to MIL he was astute enough to realize she had no clue as to what was going on and just let her stay with her son. All was resolved in court sometime later, where her driver&#039;s license was officially revoked; and the insurance took care of their part as well.</p><p><br /></p><p>It was shortly after the crash incident that the son&#039;s talked to mother and decided to sell the house and contents. So back to the hoarding story. The family gave away lots of those cleaning supplies that had accumulated over the years. It took about 3 week for them to go thru as much as they could while getting ready for an estate auction. All totaled, the family rounded up about $10,000 in cash that &#039;mother&#039; had stashed over many years.</p><p><br /></p><p>MIL passed away a couple months ago and sis was still finding money she had hidden around her house while living with them these last years.</p><p><br /></p><p>I was reminded of all of this today while cleaning out my garage. My sister had brought thing over to give to our other sister who came by to pick them up. Well in the process she tossed a few things onto the workbench in the garage. I guess my sister really did not want that old NEW pair of pantyhose that got tossed aside. Well, there really were no pantyhose in what was thought to be a new package of pantyhose. But there was another stash of cash in there totaling $142.00.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m not sure we are at the end yet...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

Your name or email address:

Do you already have an account?

• No, create an account now.
• Yes, my password is:
• Forgot your password?

Stay logged in