There are also six potholders

[conuly]

In his defense, I've never heard anybody, ever, standing in their kitchen suddenly yell that they have too many potholders.

No idea how many dishes and utensils they have, though. It's positively obscene, especially for Mr. "I believe in disposible dishes" over here. That's all right though - he has two containers of dishwashing soap to wash them all. And don't ask me about the rolls of paper towels, all of which are in use.

I didn't bring a toothbrush. Made a shopping list, asked him to pick one up. He crossed it off - he has enough spares. What's enough? Eighteen. Why does he need a score of toothbrushes?

There are six or eight containers of ravioli in the freezer, and on the door is a coupon for two more. Good God.

They have three appliances in the garage for washing clothes - a washer, a drier that sucks, and something else. Well, this is California, why do they need a drier? It's okay that the one is largely broken. But there's another broken machine there too, why not toss it?

There are three CPUs in this room besides the one that's actually hooked up and working, and another one in the room we're sleeping in. There's some three TVs in this house, three for two people. So my grandmother watches TV in her room, and he watches the same program in this room or the living room. Absurd.

He has multiple cars, but he rented one for the sole purpose of bringing us from the airport, don't ask me why.

Mind, my family isn't free from the compulsive hoarding curse. My mother made a special trip already just to buy yarn, and the nieces get new books weekly, and I've got my own set of dishes in my room awaiting the day I move out. But I do like to think that we're more... contained than this, at least right now.

I really want to go home and clean now.

Comments

[xiggaroo.livejournal.com]

ahhh you're on my coast!! :D

[conuly]

COME SAVE ME.

[xiggaroo.livejournal.com]

come to washington!!

and bring the extra potatoes. om nom nom.

[sayga.livejournal.com]

This is very entertaining to me!

I wish we had more pot holders, and we do have a costco size bag of onions in the pantry, but we'll use them all before they go bad. And unlike your uncle, we have lots of garlic.

[conuly]

Update: There are, in fact, SEVEN potholders. And two oven mitts.

Not many onions, though. Totally the wrong priorities here :)

We always have a ton of onions at home, and we buy our garlic in bulk. I never even check before picking up garlic at home! It's like diapers (though we're in cloth now, when we use them at all) - you figure you've got to use it sooner rather than later anyway.

[ncp.livejournal.com]

Does he have OCD? 'Cause hoarding is a form of OCD.

[conuly]

I don't know. I'm loathe to diagnose people in my family. We do have a lot of various autistic traits running through both sides of my family, and, as I said, hoarding runs through my family very clearly (also on both sides - I got the double whammy there!).

[erinlin.livejournal.com]

Oh I can relate. We are in the middle of cleaning out my grandmother's house- she's gone into a retirement home. She's lived in that house for sixty years and never, ever threw anything away. She also went blind fifteen years ago, so things are stuck in the weirdest places. For example, in one box we found a bag of decrepit baby shoes, my great-aunts wedding certificate, several gas and hydro bills, a half-ton of old magazines and a hat pin.

After a day at her house the urge to come home and ransack my room is nigh overpowering. Hang in there!

[conuly]

In the past, that's been our house too, but I'm really not supposed to talk about that. (Growing up, we said that the house was a mess "right now", you understand.)

[gingembre.livejournal.com]

I am soooo down to help you with your apartment. Isn't it crazy what a different perspective can do for you? :-S

[xiggaroo.livejournal.com]

ahhh you're on my coast!! :D

[conuly]

COME SAVE ME.

[xiggaroo.livejournal.com]

come to washington!!

and bring the extra potatoes. om nom nom.

[sayga.livejournal.com]

This is very entertaining to me!

I wish we had more pot holders, and we do have a costco size bag of onions in the pantry, but we'll use them all before they go bad. And unlike your uncle, we have lots of garlic.

[conuly]

Update: There are, in fact, SEVEN potholders. And two oven mitts.

Not many onions, though. Totally the wrong priorities here :)

We always have a ton of onions at home, and we buy our garlic in bulk. I never even check before picking up garlic at home! It's like diapers (though we're in cloth now, when we use them at all) - you figure you've got to use it sooner rather than later anyway.

[(Anonymous)]

Does he have OCD? 'Cause hoarding is a form of OCD.

[conuly]

I don't know. I'm loathe to diagnose people in my family. We do have a lot of various autistic traits running through both sides of my family, and, as I said, hoarding runs through my family very clearly (also on both sides - I got the double whammy there!).

[erinlin.livejournal.com]

Oh I can relate. We are in the middle of cleaning out my grandmother's house- she's gone into a retirement home. She's lived in that house for sixty years and never, ever threw anything away. She also went blind fifteen years ago, so things are stuck in the weirdest places. For example, in one box we found a bag of decrepit baby shoes, my great-aunts wedding certificate, several gas and hydro bills, a half-ton of old magazines and a hat pin.

After a day at her house the urge to come home and ransack my room is nigh overpowering. Hang in there!

[conuly]

In the past, that's been our house too, but I'm really not supposed to talk about that. (Growing up, we said that the house was a mess "right now", you understand.)

[gingembre.livejournal.com]

I am soooo down to help you with your apartment. Isn't it crazy what a different perspective can do for you? :-S