Cleaning out the closet....if archaeologists were to study me in the distant future....wow
Locust Fork
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I don't know what your stash looks like, but mine is super odd.
I saw something about Pompeii....the fine powder ash filled every crevasse, preserving the entire town like a time capsule. They were showing all the things they learned and it got me wondering what on earth they would muster from my nonsense.
I have several sizes in clothing alone because I refuse to get rid of things I no longer can wear.....because, you know, someday I'll be that size again. Craft supplies for several different projects I never started. Junk I've bought just because it seemed like a bargain. The taxidermy cat made of rabbit fur that is pure hilarious to me that I don't dare put on display, so its just there in my closet ready to scare the crap out of anyone that glances into that closet. Beads.....I don't know what it is about beads...but I own lots of them. Stuff my kids left when they moved out. A bucket of pistol mags....stacks of factory manuals....patches....books on tape from back when I drove to and from the gun store and I was always listening to books while driving. This closet is a madhouse.
If something happens and this place were sealed up to be revealed later there is no telling what tales they would come up with to explain this pile.
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My brothers and I were speculating about something similar . We have a walk in deer cooler and have over the years allowed neighbors to use it . Guts , hide , bones etc are buried in a pit nearby.It is likely that 6 or 700 deer are buried . It sits near our chicken houses where some 100,000 or more chickens are buried in pits ( died from heat or disease) Imagine several hundred years in the future when archeology types are digging around . How are they going to explain this ?
maybe they will think Colonel Sanders served deer also................
Had to clean out the basement when we moved my parents to a "facility."
Found every corsage my older sister ever got in high school.
Pickup load of cloth scraps cut to size for "rag rugs."
And my tonsils in formaldehyde.
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My late wife worked for an "estate sale" company for a while. When we moved to our "retirement house" a lot of stuff didn't make the trip -- she wasn't about to leave a houseful of things for the boys to get rid of.
Maybe they could put your Chevy in that storage center for seeds in Norway from all of the spilled fruit bowls..
That is a good mindset.....we have been doing the same thing since we retired. When my father passed away, I discovered he had 60X90 rental space full from floor to ceiling. Two sales and a couple of dumpsters took care of what we did not wish to keep or pass on. After that process I swore I would not do that to my sons !
We went thru the same thing when my mom passed. It must have been how they were raised by parents who went thru the depression.
I believe that is correct !!👆️
Our parents were children of the great depression. You didn't throw anything away. Hmmmm, Is it our excuse that we are grand children of the same era?
they may have been used to stuff the cat..........
I used to also always bury my deer carcasses out behind my garage here in the sticks. A few seasons ago my ground was too frozen to dig, so I just put the carcass out in the woods. Come Spring, it was totally gone! Been doing this ever since and always the same results!
Those large dumpsters to rent around here are shockingly expensive!
Did you look to see if Jimmy Hoffa was in there???? You could be rich!!!!
I'm moving it to the bathroom closet....I'll let yall know who finds it first
You should move it to the pantry behind a cereal box or something. Go to get some breakfast....SURPRISE!!!!
🇺🇲 "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." - Thomas Jefferson 🇺🇲
put it in front of the dog bowl..........
All I can say is I feel sorry for my wife for when I pass. She's constantly bugging me to go through my stuff but I refuse to do it.