Reply #78: My Grandmother was like this, too [View All]

When my Grandfather passed away in 1994, we went to their house and could not believe the amount of stuff my Grandma had. She had canned goods everywhere around the house. The entire porch was filled with bags and bags of groceries. Her Cadillac was filled with groceries and she hadn't driven it in over a year. The freezers were both filled with bread that no-one had ever eaten. Tere was so much meat in the freezers as well. She used to buy it when it was on sale and never use it. My Grandma only ate hamburger meat, but she had chicken and steaks in the freezer. My Grandpa had a piano in the office that he hadn't played in almost 10 years. It wasn't because he couldn't see anymore, it was because my Grandma had paperwork and boxes all over it. You couldn't even walk through the room anymore. My Grandma never went upstairs anymore - she couldn't. So she slept on the couch. My Grandpa never cleaned in his entire life, so the upstairs was a complete disaster. My Mom, talked to my Grandma downstairs as us kids threw out junk upstairs from the windows. It was horrible. We had to use a mask and gloves everywhere. It couldn' have been healthy for them. My Grandma finally got a real bed downstairs. My Mom bought her a daybed that looked great and made her feel so much better.

About 6 months later my Grandma died. We went back to the house and the upstairs was stillin the same shape as when we left. The downstairs was a disaster again. My Grandma kicked my Mom out of the house about 3 months earlier because my Mom kept cleaning up after my Grandma. Grammy couldn't take the neatness anymore. It was so sad.