Recovering hoarders?

[Geila]

A saver can quit anytime he wants.

This is helpful. Thanks Chicken Lady!

A few years ago I realized that yard sales and thrift stores always had dirt cheap linens that I found hard to resist adding to my collection. So I stopped going to yard sales and thrift stores. I still have my collection but I haven't added anything to it in a long time. Likewise, a while back I told dh that the amount of containers he was keeping was beginning to bother me and he stopped collecting any more of them. He hasn't gotten rid of any of the ones he was, but the stash has not grown. And yesterday when I told him I was getting rid of a bunch of boxes, including some banker's boxes which he really likes to keep, he was okay with it.

[Geila]

This is the link to the one near where I live. I don't use it though. I have few things that require tools, just an itty-bitty tool set for my bike and the multi-tool on my key chain. haha

But look it over, it is a neat idea!

http://www.rtcentralohio.org/tool-library/

This is cool. I'm gonna see if they have any of these around here. Dh would be stoked.

[Chicken lady]

Bae has a fire truck?

[Teacher Terry]

People only change when the pain of changing is less then the pain of staying the same. That is the reason it is very hard to changes fundamental things about yourself. Not impossible but very, very difficult.

[Geila]

People only change when the pain of changing is less then the pain of staying the same. That is the reason it is very hard to changes fundamental things about yourself. Not impossible but very, very difficult.

So true!

[Ultralight]

I took someone to my parents' house this past weekend. They went inside.

[Chicken lady]

How did that go?

[Ultralight]

Well, the girlfriend with whom I split up with some time back wanted to try again. So I agreed to try again. Obviously I have mixed feelings about the situation.

But nonetheless, I was going back "home" so I asked if she wanted to come along. She said she wanted to. I also offered to take her someplace yummy for lunch.

We drove up there and stopped by a place called The Blue Collar Bistro, which is about 15 minutes from my parents' house in a nearby small town. They make a lot of surprisingly delicious foods. We got Lobster man-n-cheese in a bread bowl and a Greek salad.

Then we went to my old neighborhood and to my parents' house. My parents saw us coming and both sat out on the front porch, which is like a non-verbal way of saying: "You can't come inside."

So we stood out front and talked to them a while. But I had go to the bathroom so I asked my dad: "Can I go in to the bathroom? I had been on the road a few hours."

He let me in.

Afterward I told my ladyfriend to go in and said: "Hey mom, can "T" go in and use the bathroom?"

My mom reluctantly agreed. She said: "There really isn't any running water up there. So don't try to flush. I will flush it later, with a bucket and such."

I took T inside and showed her to the upstairs where the bathroom is.

She went up there but could not bring herself to actually go, so she just waited a couple minutes and then came back down and out. She said that after she came back downstairs she and my dad made eye contact and that my dad looked deeply embarrassed and ashamed. T said this made her feel really bad; it was depressing to her.

[Teacher Terry]

That is horrible that they can't even flush the toilet-ugh! Glad that you and your DG are giving it another go. Sometimes a split is just what is needed to form a permanent relationship. You can step back to see the issues and do better the 2nd time around.

[Ultralight]

Sometimes a split is just what is needed to form a permanent relationship. You can step back to see the issues and do better the 2nd time around.

Thanks. It is like our fourth split. She has each time contacted me and convinced me to try again.