Nope. She was born in 1960. Our family was poor-adjacent. But mostly b/c of her horrible spending habits. Like my parents lost their house b/c my dad lost his job & she just stopped paying the house payment. Like she COULD have paid it, but didn't. He was only out of work for a week. She spent the $$ on other crap. Didn't pay it for months. Where was the $$ then? Should have had like 6k.. nope. Then I had to go tell my dad the house was being foreclosed on b/c she was afraid to. Acted like he was going to hurt her. SMH. My dad was never like that. She's always the one who was the mean/ abusive one. Anyway, before that she got a secret loan for $25k, found out about it during the bankruptcy and she won't tell anyone where the $$ went. Then when they went to court the judge is telling my dad it's his fault they went bankrupt, he was ticked. He makes good $$, it wasn't his fault, it was all my mom's fault.
I refuse to be like my mom. My child asked me the other day why I was such a great mom and I said b/c I had a really crappy mom. Like I hear people saying how great their mom is and they don't know what they'd do w/o her and all that and I cannot relate at all. Enough about that.
We're all going to think positive. Everything will be fine. They're going to check your boob and say 'You're good. We just wanted to see you rack again'. Positive thoughts.
That is wasteful. Stuff like that annoys me b/c it really can be used. I donate a bunch of stuff to the daycare my kids went to. Any time we have books, toys, or craft stuff we don't need anymore, even game pieces, we send them to the daycare b/c they can add them to their collection. It's shocking the things businesses throw away. I always find it hard to dispose of working things here at work, but my boss (who admits to hoarder tendencies) won't even throw away broken stuff. She'll insist on spending an hour of her time (as a manager) trying to clean/ fix a broken mouse that would cost $5 to replace. We often have computers that last 10 years here b/c we spend so much time keeping them running, but even when they're dead she'll nitpick the repair. We have about 30 15" lcd monitors that were purchased in 2002 that I cleaned over a year ago and we got permission to sell, and they're sitting in a cubby in admin.. I'll point them out and she'll say Yeah, we need to deal with that and then they sit and sit. It's really frustrating. Someone could really use them, but they sit here rotting until they're useless.I watch Hording: Buried Alive for two reasons....
Makes me feel not so bad about the random stuff I do bring home. Then it makes me throw out stuff I really don't need. (except egg cartons. I'll have enough chickens to use them all--one day)
It's very hard for me being a cleaning lady. The stuff offices throw away is shameful. I've gotten so many office supplies it's not funny. I'll even donate it if I can. One place threw out over 100 exercise bands. The big giant rubberband you use for resistance training. They were never used. Even came with a little instruction booklet to do exercises in your desk chair. So I have them to the senior center. They use them all the time. Got boxes of colored paper once. Again nothing wrong with it. Some was still in the paper wrapping it comes in. Took what I wanted and gave the rest to a daycare center/preschool. The company wasn't even going to recycle it. So wasteful!
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Cappy... it'll be OK... you are too ornery to have anything happen to you.... cancer is too afraid to mess with you honey!!!
