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<p>[QUOTE="Bdigger, post: 277716, member: 157"]I had a great aunt that was a hoarder. Her house was incredible. one small path through the living room. never threw anything away. Stacks and stacks of old newspapers filling every room. In her desk (which was crammed FULL) we founf a bag of candy with a note attached saying that it was a gift from so and so on the occaision of her 1936 marriage to her husband. The closet in the bedroom upstairs was filled with over 60 raggedy ann and andy dolls . She spent her time sending cards and letters to Royalty( All countries), the pope(s) politicians, Stars, and CEOS. She sent the queen some AVON skin so soft for her silver jubilee. She wrote the CEO of armour canned hams asking him to start putting handles on their cans so she could make them into knitting kits. These were not just 1 page letters, most times they were 5 or 6 pgs. FILLED with personal info about her ill health etc.....The weird part is that many of these people answerd her. I have those letters.</p><p>She wrote to the CEO of Chessie systems railroad, asking them to change the cat logo on their train cars, because when the trains went by her window, it always reminded her of he poor dead cat fluffy who died 10 years ago. ( then there would be a long description of the cats life and how it died,) and those are just a few of the highlights in those letters.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bdigger, post: 277716, member: 157"]I had a great aunt that was a hoarder. Her house was incredible. one small path through the living room. never threw anything away. Stacks and stacks of old newspapers filling every room. In her desk (which was crammed FULL) we founf a bag of candy with a note attached saying that it was a gift from so and so on the occaision of her 1936 marriage to her husband. The closet in the bedroom upstairs was filled with over 60 raggedy ann and andy dolls . She spent her time sending cards and letters to Royalty( All countries), the pope(s) politicians, Stars, and CEOS. She sent the queen some AVON skin so soft for her silver jubilee. She wrote the CEO of armour canned hams asking him to start putting handles on their cans so she could make them into knitting kits. These were not just 1 page letters, most times they were 5 or 6 pgs. FILLED with personal info about her ill health etc.....The weird part is that many of these people answerd her. I have those letters. She wrote to the CEO of Chessie systems railroad, asking them to change the cat logo on their train cars, because when the trains went by her window, it always reminded her of he poor dead cat fluffy who died 10 years ago. ( then there would be a long description of the cats life and how it died,) and those are just a few of the highlights in those letters.[/QUOTE]
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