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This is the most god damned terrifying thing I have ever witnessed.
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quote:gav came out of the closet to say: Creepy loving muppet. Guild Wars 2 rocks!
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| # ? Dec 15, 2003 19:10 |
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quote:Knormal came out of the closet to say: The disorder has moved onto gathering electronic equivelant of junk too. I suck at life
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| # ? Dec 15, 2003 19:17 |
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That she has stuff she's ordered and never even looked at is frightening.
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| # ? Dec 15, 2003 19:18 |
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My friend's house is like that, although not nearly as bad. His parents are from Korea, speak very little English and decided a long time ago that once something was put up on the walls, it would never be taken down. Hence, my buddy's artwork from 1st grade and a Korean Calendar for 1989 are still up on their walls, and I'm serious when I say that nearly every uncovered wall or surface is made of dull, varnished wood. My friend's dad once went out and bought a box of full-spectrum light bulbs, which, according to my friend, "made the browns even browner." His parents would think nothing of blocking an entryway with a couch that's blocked with boxes holding 20+ years worth of National Geographic, and they've never replaced any appliances or cleaned the carpets since they bought the house in 1980 (old, rusted everything = Resident Evil chic). Hence, 23 years of kimchee being cooked has left a very distinct smell, and his parents often neglect to mow the lawn for months, opting instead to prune their 15-foot pines until they look like Truffula Trees. During his senior year, my friend's parents would go stay in Korea for 2-6 months at a time, so he would stay with my family and we'd hold parties at his house where we'd drink and get high with abandon. His parents knew that they couldn't sell the house when they moved back to Korea, so they told my friend that he could have it - he doesn't want it, and claims that if he does get it he'll burn it down and sell the property. I could hardly blame him, and I think the same situation might apply to you if you can ever get your mom out of this place.
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| # ? Dec 15, 2003 19:18 |
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Put your mom in an institution and call a salvage company. They will come in, appraise the mess, and offer you a sum for all of it and haul it away. Unless of course you want to sell that poo poo on Ebay as your fulltime occupation.
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| # ? Dec 15, 2003 19:20 |
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Knormal, can we have a goonmeet at your house?
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| # ? Dec 15, 2003 19:22 |
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quote:radical edward came out of the closet to say: Actually, that's not a bad idea! Here's what you do: Post a thread in which you offer people a random box for say $50 ($100 for bigger boxes and $25 for really small ones). You can even do it through ebay to get more customers. Next, once you think you've sold enough, find a way to get your mother out of the house for a day or 2. Then call up UPS and have them send a few trucks down to your place. You can make a nice profit on all the junk, and just tell your mom you and your friends got rid of it all at the dump. Then call happy valley to take your mom away. http://www.4faen.com/image/gbsfm_sig_2.aspx
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| # ? Dec 15, 2003 19:22 |
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:megamon: is the only emoticon that comes close to describing my reaction. I have a nigh-irresistible urge to find your house and burn it down.
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| # ? Dec 15, 2003 19:23 |
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OH MY loving GOD. How do you LIVE!?
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| # ? Dec 15, 2003 19:27 |
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your mom is a box otaku
SuperShmoe, & knork are my personal guard of hired assassins, thus far they have each assassinated a cinimon chip scone, & a White Castle value meal respectively.
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| # ? Dec 15, 2003 19:30 |
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This is truely amazing, i shall print this out for my mom and tell her THIS is why I refuse to show her how to use a computer. :)
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| # ? Dec 15, 2003 19:30 |
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quote:dancehall came out of the closet to say:
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| # ? Dec 15, 2003 19:30 |
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I know it's already been said many times, but I would start selling poo poo on eBay. I would just pick a box or two and start listing. She'll never notice, and it wouldn't take a month or two to get enough money together to pay rent for yourself at a nice place for a year or more.
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| # ? Dec 15, 2003 19:31 |
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I have the following questions. 1) Don't you ever look in the boxes just to see what they are, or has the sheer amount simply killed your curiosity 2) Do you celebrate Christmas? 3) What does your mom do for a living? 4) Do you have conversations about this. How do you avoid just freaking out on her?
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| # ? Dec 15, 2003 19:35 |
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My grandmother was bad, but not THAT bad - the only thing my grandmother has over your mom is that she was filthy rich, so she would CONSTANTLY order poo poo from MSNshopping channel (the useless home-shopping network that sells ugly rear end necklaces for $5000) and never bother opening the boxes. She died in 2000, and we still have unopened boxes in our storage loft of our garage just because there was so much poo poo we couldn't handle it. What we ended up doing with most of it was opening the box, finding the reciept and ugly tacky jewelry inside, calling up MSNshopping and getting a return with money back. So after about 270+ boxes, we had something like $350,000. The rest of her boxes were full of old records and the "journals" she kept detailing EVERY SINGLE MOMENT OF EVERY SINGLE DAY SINCE 1978. She had approximately 500 three inch three-ring binders completely fully of her everyday activities down to when she went to the bathroom. Overall, it took about four months to clean out her house of what we feeled like cleaning, then we auctioned the entire house, furniture, boxes, notebooks, and all, off for around $200,000. Fatty cash from my grandmother's neurotic behavior. Perhaps you could fair the same way. oh, by the way, the telephone conductors can be bought at junk stores for like $3.
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| # ? Dec 15, 2003 19:35 |
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quote:mastersord came out of the closet to say: brilliant
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| # ? Dec 15, 2003 19:35 |
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One more vote for sending her off on a nice vacation for a week and getting that poo poo out of there. Its for the best and you'll know that you've done the right thing. The alternatives are just too frightening. Usually Gold threads are funny, but this one is just sad.
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| # ? Dec 15, 2003 19:36 |
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Oddly enough, our local paper last week had a poll asking whether people were packrats or knew someone who was a packrat... Dude, seriously. She needs help man. I agree with the "get her out of the house for a couple of days and clean up" sentiment, but that's not going to treat the problem. In the meantime, humor her while chippin away at the iceberg of crap. Chock full of white boy suburban angst, insecurity, & self-doubt since 1978!
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| # ? Dec 15, 2003 19:38 |
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A lot of people are saying MOVE OUT OF THERE NOW here. In some other situation I might agree, but this isn't just his crazy roommate, it's his god drat mom. Of course, it's for him to decide, but I would try everything in my power to get help for her one way or another first, before moving far away; right now it looks like it's just a question of time before she loses it completely and/or gets squished by a falling mountain of cardboard.
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| # ? Dec 15, 2003 19:38 |
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I find this fascinating. It's also making me look around my room and take note of the fact that some of my belongings have lived in boxes since I moved in this fall. To be fair, I have little shelf/drawer space, but by this point in the year I could really go through and toss anything I haven't needed to use yet. http://understanding I did some googling, and this page is pretty interesting.
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| # ? Dec 15, 2003 19:42 |
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quote:bananna fish came out of the closet to say: My god.
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| # ? Dec 15, 2003 19:42 |
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Sir, I thank you- I can never complain about my mother's odd behavior ever again.
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| # ? Dec 15, 2003 19:43 |
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The walk-in shower is the best.
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| # ? Dec 15, 2003 19:43 |
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I've known people like that. The worst person I know like that went from having $90,000 in her checking account to beig broke and working two jobs after spending it all on crap from TBN. Her whole house is one giant unbalanced maze (much like her brain yes?). I heartily endorse the mystery box ebay sale-a-thon and/or "fixing" your mom's computer to make ebay bidding no longer work.
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| # ? Dec 15, 2003 19:45 |
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Holy. gently caress.
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| # ? Dec 15, 2003 19:47 |
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Holy poo poo! I've never seen anything like that before. Your Mom is a serious packrat!
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| # ? Dec 15, 2003 19:48 |
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The glow from that house if it caught fire could be seen from space.
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| # ? Dec 15, 2003 19:49 |
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THink about it like this: When she dies, you are rich. Seriously, when she dies you justh ave to sort everything into collections and sell them on ebay. You would make a loving bundle. Enough to probably have the house renovated and resold for a nice chunk of change.
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| # ? Dec 15, 2003 19:54 |
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It's been said before, but your mom is sick. Seriously. It's a psychological disorder and she needs help. Ebay certainly facilitates it though. When my great aunt moved into a nursing home (alzheimers) after my great uncle died, she left behind a four-story house on embassy row in washington. Huuuge house. Uncle John was president of the national geographic society for a while, a renowned collector of maps and snuff bottles, mainly. The top two floors of the house -- four bedrooms, bathrooms, etc, were all filled with boxes of collectables. We hired Sloan's auction company to sell the good stuff, and it turned into an 8 figure auction. However, before they came, we had to clean it. It was obvious that my Aunt had a serious case of OCD as a precursor to alzheimers, as she kept EVERYTHING. Newspapers from the last 10 years, neatly flattened food wrappers, even drawers full of used tissues. We had to shake all the books out because she'd hidden cash in the pages, afraid someone would somehow steal it. Took close to four months of constant work to clean, and it looks like you're headed for something similar!
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If this has not yet been brought up, do yourself and your mother a huge favor and do this: 1. Go to this link: http://tlc.discovery.com/fansites/c...eton/geton.html quote:Is your home a pack rat's paradise? Does your master bedroom need a spare room to handle the overflow? Does your family room or home office look like a tornado hit? 3. Whether or not you meet all of the requirements, just send pictures, they will have to pick your house, it's ridiculous. I'll never call my own mother a pack rat ever again. And I'm throwing some of her poo poo out before it gets 1/100th as bad as your house. How can you not go insane? I see those pictures and it makes me cringe with desire to throw anything out. Really. When you get out of the house, just grab a box, throw it out somewhere or drop it off at some charity place. It's not like she will ever notice anyway. Edit: typo. ---------------- katoplastik fucked around with this message at Dec 15, 2003 around 20:02 |
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Jesus H gently caress. At least this makes me feel better about my own packrat tendencies.. at least I can friggin' walk around in my room.
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quote:katoplastik came out of the closet to say:
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| # ? Dec 15, 2003 19:59 |
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I worked at a state hospital for a few months doing computer work and in my professional opinion your mother is batshit insane.
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quote:toolboi came out of the closet to say: Think about it the other way. If his mom didn't do this poo poo, they'd both be rich right now.
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| # ? Dec 15, 2003 20:02 |
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:megamon: Sell the house and all of its contents (use the pics) on ebay for an unspecified amount. Then move to an apartment. Can I have a random box please? I would :love: you forever.
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That's me in 20 years. Seriously.
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| # ? Dec 15, 2003 20:08 |
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your mom makes my mom look normal. they should go out to lunch sometime.
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| # ? Dec 15, 2003 20:13 |
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Your house is a massive loving fire hazard and the life of both you and your mother are in severe danger. No, seriously. This is no laughing matter. Many people die every year from doing exactly what your mother is doing, all that paper junk tightly packed into a single house goes up like a powder keg when so much as a tiny otherwise harmless spark flints onto a paper pile. I suggest you and your mom do some serious house-cleaning, throwing as much of the poo poo out that you don't need, but putting everything that you want to save at a rental warehouse safe-storage facility of some sort. Also, garage sales of excess junk might be a good idea just so you can have places to actually put stuff. If your mother cannot bear to let go of her stuff, appeal to her sense of reasoning and inform her that the house is a huge danger to both of you as it is. (If she does not believe you, get a local fireman to talk to her about it.) Plus she will likely enjoy the house much better if there's actual breathing space to be able to move about than she would if she were keeping all her crap strewn about. ---------------- DanSTC fucked around with this message at Dec 15, 2003 around 20:27 |
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quote:Big Kahuna came out of the closet to say: Me too. I'll give you a year free hosting @ cdchosting.com in exchange for a nice big box (hopefully of something electronic).
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