Flip This House Grandma House

greenwitch
Thu, 19 Oct 2017 03:53:45 +0000

My sister and I helped our Dad clear out some boxes but we must have missed some. He sat there on a chair and OK’d everything. Yes, it was OK to throw out old course materials from when he taught classes 20 years ago, etc. Honestly, I don’t think he was clinging to this stuff, he just didn’t have the energy to go through the boxes and it was easier to just move with them a few times than open any of them up.

In one of the boxes we missed were invoices from when I went to the orthodontist, 40+ years ago!

H and I have made a pact to downsize, simplify, and gimp-proof our living arrangements well before we turn 70. My in-laws are my inspiration here. They are rooted like bad, overripe turnips. One day we’ll have quite a party going through all the stuff that’s been accumulating in their house since they built it in 1967!