Do your parents hoard?In the past few weeks my dad and I have worked on cleaning up my dump of a house and clean out my garage. I now have a spare bedroom out of the deal and can also get my car in the garage. However, I've noticed something very troubling about my dad. He has all the signs of a hoarder.Just a couple weeks ago I gave my friend Richy a chest of drawers for his girlfriend since I didn't use it. All that was inside was a bunch of papers that were almost 8 years old some even older from back when I was in high school. I didn't think any of some random assignment I did for US History in 10th grade so I tossed all of it so Sara could have a dresser instead of storing all her clothes in plastic bins. The next day my dad asks me about the dresser and I told him what I did with it and he got all bent out of shape over the papers being tossed in the garbage. Seriously, we looked through it as we were cleaning things out and there was little of any value contained within. This is the ah-hah moment for me. Where I realized my dad is a fucking hoarder like you see on A&E. I first suspected it when one day dad and I were driving down the alley in my F250 as we were going out to lunch. He spies a busted chair in the dumpster and he tells me to stop to grab it....against my better judgement I complied. It still sits out back of his house, the wicker seat rotted completely out. This is pretty well the symptoms of a hoarder. My dad constantly finds crap in the dumpster and takes it home either to my house or his. He wouldn't let me take any of my packing foam to the UPS Store or a pack&Mail place because he wanted it to insulate his well house. And now I bet it sits out at his place accumulating dirt and moisture. Heck, Saturday we were working in the garage and he found these little toy moccasins that came off some toy buried under the pile of junk and I told him to throw them away he fucking puts them in a box thinking someone might like that. And I've been cleaning my bathroom and apparently dad found an old shower curtain in the garage and he puts it in the fucking bathroom. ITS IN THE GARAGE FOR A FUCKING REASON BECAUSE IT"S NO DAMN GOOD AS A SHOWER CURTAIN. I love my dad, but I fear that now I gotta be the grown-up here and put my foot down whenever he wants to cabbage onto something. |
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