Sometimes I love my life!

[Spiky Bugger]

Last night, I noticed $10 on the floor and called Bella’s dad to tell him he had lost it here.

I just now had to send him this:


1–[MrSue] “loaned” Bella a dollar to buy a ring.
2–She COULD HAVE paid for it if she hadn’t lost HER $10.
3–“What ten dollars?” I foolishly asked. “That’s a lot of money to carry around at school.”
4-“The ten dollars my friend loaned me.”
5-I kept asking dumb questions: “You BORROWED ten dollars from someone?”
6-“No! My friend LOANED it to me.”
7-Me: “What friend?”
8-“My friend from kindergarten.”
9-Dumb old woman: “Does this friend have a name?”
10-YES!!! Alexa!!


Conclusions so far:
1–She needs to be exposed to Shakespeare:

Polonius:
Neither a borrower nor a lender be,
For loan oft loses both itself and friend,
And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.
Hamlet Act 1, scene 3, 75–77

https://www.enotes.com/topics/hamlet/text/act-i-scene-iii
2-[MrSue] needs to remember if he was asked for a gift of a dollar or if she asked to borrow a dollar. The former is a Life Lesson for [MrSue] , the latter is a Life Lesson for Bella.
3-Someone should touch bases with Alexa’s old people to confirm the details and, pehaps, repay the loan.
4-I love my life.

 

[hilary1617]

Ha! My favorite Shakespearean quote. I fairly frequently remind my kiddos to neither a borrower or lender be!

Life is good!

 

[JackieOnLine]

life is good when you have good people in it, that's what I think.
I am struggling to get ready for the moving sale Saturday - I am awash in STUFF - and it really makes priorities clear. people are what matter, stuff is just stuff.

I love my life

 

[Spiky Bugger]

I was gonna ask how the Shedding of Stuff was going,

 

[JackieOnLine]

I was gonna ask how the Shedding of Stuff was going,

kind of rough. going through stuff and, especially papers, is like picking up a rock and seeing horrible things crawling around underneath. all the books I bought and didn't get around to reading (mostly "self help") all those plans I made 15 years ago that are still on the back burner.

yesterday I went through all my old calendars just so I wouldn't lose track of something I wanted to keep track of. the end of one year and the beginning of the next was the entire story of my Mom's dementia from the first sign of it to her death and autopsy.

I'm glad I am done with the papers.

the next two days will be easier, since it's just stuff and making signs and so on. I will be so glad when this is over!

thanks for asking!

 

[hilary1617]

Hang in there JackieOnLine. Keep your eyes on the prize! CO is going to be worth it!!!!

 

[southernlady]

Shedding stuff is probably the most difficult thing we do. Hang in there.

 

[Larra]

Shedding stuff is HARD. I know someone right now (elderly lady) who is moving to be closer to her family, who has tons of stuff and isn't shedding anything. So most lilkely a lot of stuff will go into storage. After she dies, her daughter will have to go through everything and do all the shedding. Which is only going to make losing her mother that much harder.
So keep up the good work, no sense in shleping all that stuff to your new home.

 

[k9ophile]

What Larra said. I brought way too much **** with me when we moved from CO to TN. I was leaving all my friends, did I have to lose my stuff, too? Twenty two years later, it's still unpacked and God knows what critters have invaded the premises and done God knows what to my treasures. Our house has a two car attached garage and a two car unattached that we call The Outhouse. Probably a more apt name when I think of what crap is in there.

 

[JackieOnLine]

things really pile up!!

 

[Spiky Bugger]

Shedding stuff is HARD. I know someone right now (elderly lady) who is moving to be closer to her family, who has tons of stuff and isn't shedding anything. So most lilkely a lot of stuff will go into storage. After she dies, her daughter will have to go through everything and do all the shedding. Which is only going to make losing her mother that much harder.
So keep up the good work, no sense in shleping all that stuff to your new home.

Larra,

Amazon can get this to your friend by tomorrow...or today via Kindle.

It is not so much a How To as it is a Why To.

She reminds us that if our kids don’t want it now, our dying isn’t going to do much more than irritate them when they have to throw it all out.

Spoiler Alert! She may indeed be a woman between 80 and 100 years old, but she does advise us to hold on to ONE dildo, but to throw out the other dozen.

The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning: How to Free Yourself and Your Family from a Lifetime of Clutter


The book is <$15.

 

[Spiky Bugger]

Shedding stuff is HARD. I know someone right now (elderly lady) who is moving to be closer to her family, who has tons of stuff and isn't shedding anything. So most lilkely a lot of stuff will go into storage. After she dies, her daughter will have to go through everything and do all the shedding. Which is only going to make losing her mother that much harder.
So keep up the good work, no sense in shleping all that stuff to your new home.

...and k9ophile ... my always-at-death’s-door BIL is a smart ass. When we were cleaning my mom’s place before she moved and she was sitting there, he turned around from his job in the kitchen with his hands full of some metallic objects and said, “Where’s the other one?”

We all made faces and said stuff like “Huh?” and “What?”

He said, “Because there are eleven potato peelers, I’m assuming they come in sets of a dozen...and I can only find eleven.”

(Mom went on to explain that when there were large gatherings involving mashed potatoes and family members asked how they could help...she was locked and loaded for getting the potatoes peeled.)

 

[Georgepds]

Just remember, Polonius was murdered, not for his financial advice, but none the less


"Polonius, behind the arras, also shouts in fear. Hamlet quickly ascertains that someone is hiding behind the arras. ... With this in mind, Hamlet acts to avenge his father's death, stabbing through the curtain, killing Polonius instead. Polonius dies while spying on Hamlet, and Old Hamlet's murder remains unavenged."

 

[Spiky Bugger]

Just remember, Polonius was murdered, not for his financial advice, but none the less


"Polonius, behind the arras, also shouts in fear. Hamlet quickly ascertains that someone is hiding behind the arras. ... With this in mind, Hamlet acts to avenge his father's death, stabbing through the curtain, killing Polonius instead. Polonius dies while spying on Hamlet, and Old Hamlet's murder remains unavenged."

In my lazy mental filing system, Hamlet is pretty close to Oedipus Rex and Romeo and Juliet....everybody ends up dead.

 

[k9ophile]

Spiky Bugger We must have at least two dozen bread pans because every time my husband went to make banana bread, he couldn't find the one he used before. I'm not sure how we managed to lose them only to have them all show up en masse.