Since this hot weather has been causing so many fires everybody keeps worrying about house fires....Grandma and Auntie J. decided they were going to clean out their attics of stuff that was a fire hazard yesterday....because you know running these air conditioners all the time could cause malfunction or overheating and start a fire in the attic and that stuff would catch on fire easily...
At 5am we all helped Grandma take down boxes of stuff and throw it away.....that took til 7am so then Grandma said we needed to go over to Dad's and clean out that stuff she put of ours up in his attic in boxes...there was about 12 boxes of our baby clothes & toys...still in mint condition, rather shocking after all these years....they looked untouched....i had so many toys and clothes back then...i may not have had a stable childhood but i had everything toys/clothes-wise a little girl could want....
Grandma asked us what we wanted to do with all that stuff so me & Sarah decided we would keep a few things and throw the rest away...because what am i gonna do with boxes & boxes of clothes and toys?.....mice had chewed a few things up and pack rats had made nests in a few boxes.....so we just threw all of it away...i kept a few small figurine toys: a Pooh & friends set, some glow worms, a Snoopy figurine and we threw the rest away.....
My cell phone rang 2 hours later and it was Dad as usual...he calls a billion times a week when he's gone out there working....so he asked what we were doing and i said:"About to go work, we're getting a late start today because we been cleaning out the attics to prevent fire hazard."...he goes:"Oh, yeah?...what did you clean out?"...I said:"Grandma's attic,our attic, and your attic....we found a million boxes of our baby stuff and we threw it all away, you'll have lots of room up there now." DEAD SILENCE.
he goes:"WHAT?!! YOU THREW IT ALL AWAY?! WHY?!...why did you throw it all away!?what about your baby shoes in boxes and those toys?! what about that toy pink bunny and that glow worm i got you?!..how could you do that?!Why didn't anybody ask me first?,it's my attic and stuff i wanted to keep!" i was like:"Uh-oh, well...i didn't think you wanted or needed 12+boxes of our old baby stuff sitting in your attic."...he starts crying and goes:"I wanted that stuff, i want you to all go get that outta the g*ddamn trash and put it right back where it was!...tell grandma to stay outta my sh*t!".....i was like:"OK."yikes.
he also kept telling me while he was kinda crying:"There was this little dress i bought you, it was yellow and had a little bear on it with flowers..did you see that anywhere?!"...i said:"I don't think so...nope, sorry..too many clothes to go through."....LOL...and i'm not pilfering through all those clothes to find it either...didn't tell him that though.
so i hung up and told Grandma she said:"No, he don't need all that mess up in the attic, i'm throwin' it all away...he's just homesick and too sentimental right now...i'm not puttin' all that back up there, get him a box of your shoes and a toy or two he can keep."
so we did...my glow worm still glows after all these years. ;)
it's so crazy how he was being about our old baby stuff!....i mean he could easily end up on that show about people who hoard things..lol...oh my goodness...craziness.
xoxo
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