Hi Nancy!

>> Yeah...  Packrat... that's another good word to describe us...
  Our
>> kid knows better than to give us grief over it... he'd lose. 

>> No doubt :)  I tell her just wait until you're older and one day you
>> say to yourself, "I know I have this somewhere here"..
and you can't
>> find it because you tossed it years ago 

> Or just the week before.  

Yep hahaha ...Well it's like when NYState decided that we'd not paid taxes
long long ago.. maybe the year was '85 0r something like that.  I did have
all the paperwork to get them off us.. but who would have thought you'd
need something from that far back in 2009!!   I was sure to point that one
out to her 

>> And then I think, well maybe she's afraid of all the
"stuff" I have
>> that she'll have to deal with when I'm gone Lol.. Well, that's if I'm
>> ever "gone" of course 

> And if you haven't taken care of it all beforehand (yeah, I know, the
> best laid plans and all...  )

hehe.. I think about opening an antique store with all these dishes I have
been collecting.. (I've added a few more since the picnic ).. but
I don't know if I could part with some of them Lol

>> Oh well.. I had to deal with plenty from relatives :)

> And they've added to OUR stash, anyway... our relatives, that is... ;)

Yep, same here.

> I've got stuff from Richard's grandparents, my grandparents, his mother,
> my parents' house...  We had to help clean out Richard's mom's house...
> hers was just as bad as ours is...  ;)

It's good though that you guys were able to help do it.. tasks like that
can be overwhelming.. We had much of the same: Ron's parents.. My parents'
house when they moved to florida..

> The apple doesn't fall far from > the tree...   Hey, maybe your daughter is
>worried that she's going to
> end up being a packrat, too...  ;)

hahahahaha.. I'll have to tell her that one!!! too funny :)

Hope you had a great ThanksGiving!  Ron and I had a really nice quiet day
yesterday - Today, Friday, the kids came up.. The kittens hadn't seen my
daughter's boys in a long time, so it was crazy for the kitties at first ..
but by the end of the day, they were all lounging all over the kids and
having such fun playing with them :)

Take care,
janis

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