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Holy motherload of crap from in-laws PIP!

I think I've mentioned before how my in-laws are pack rats, right? They never throw anything out...ever. Last night FIL shows up with his van FULL of boxes of crap for us.  The collection includes every toy, book, or piece of clothing DH used when he was a child. Have I mentioned that he's 38!!

Honestly, 95% of this stuff is junk that should have been thrown out 25-30 years ago. WTF are they thinking? I'm beside myself over how much crap we now have to get rid of. All of this stuff smells like must. I'd never let DS play with it; it's all a health hazzard. LOL

The tough thing is that DH will not say anything to his mom for fear of hurting her fealings. This will never end. Sigh. I know MIL thinks it's being helpful, but DH needs to tell her how to purge...seriously.

Here are the interesting pictures...and it's not even showing all of the boxes:

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more boxes!

 MORE!!

You see how chipped the paint is on this seat/stool?

the chipped seat

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Now this I just think is funny..... Vinny Barbarino puzzle... LOL

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Re: Holy motherload of crap from in-laws PIP!

  • MY MIL is the same way. I say go through it. Junk most of it, and give stuff that's actually good that you don't want to goodwill.
  • Welcome back Carter!!!??!?!??!  That's a collectible!


    Repeat after me, "Ebay is my friend".

  • I can see the sweet side of that but also the annoying side too.  Good luck going through all of it, maybe there will be some things you can save for DS, have fun!
  • Some of it might be ebayable... but yay... that's pretty annoying!!!!
  • WHOA!

    Oprah just had a lady on -- the woman started buying stuff b/c she didn't know how to fill her time when her kids left the home. It was 10 times worse than this? But it all started somewhere. It came to a head when her oldest son wouldn't take his kids over there any longer. It was a very revealing episode.

     

    WHOA! 

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  • I wouldn't have had room if someone dropped off all of that stuff at my house!  Good luck!
  • My mother-in-law also has saved everything dh owned when he was a kid.  She tries to give it to us one piece at a time, though, since my dh is very adamant about us not wanting it.  We use storage as an excuse for the most part (though it's not an excuse - we really DON'T have the room for excess junk).  I thought it was "sweet" for like a second, but she will talk for weeks about how much my ds "loves" the 30 year old slippers she put on him while she was babysitting, or whatever it was that week.  She's very sneaky about giving it to him before we can say anything.  And like that bench in your picture, a lot of the stuff is a freakin' hazard. 

     

    She is also a packrat and will buy me things like throw pillows and pot holders at tag sales.   It just all goes straight to Goodwill or the Salvation Army now!  I don't know if some people think it's rude, but if you knew my MIL, you'd understand.

  • This is part of the joy of inlaws.  We just got two big boxes of all of the schoolwork DH did in middle school.  We're getting his high school work next.  Great.
  • The stool is really cute, though. A coat of paint it would be great for the bathroom for children to use to reach the faucet.  And how much cooler is it that it was Daddy's!
  • some of it might be neat to have but I can see why you'd be annoyed. ?What a ton of stuff!!
  • lol!  Mine would do the same!
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  • You could probably make a ton of money off of that stuff.  People our age are always buying stuff from our childhood on EBAY or other sites.
  • Oh my gosh! That's kind of funny and a little annoying as wellSmile Have fun rummaging through all of it!
  • WOW!  That is a LOT of stuff.  Some of it might be neat/have sentimental value, but yikes, that is a lot to go through. 
  • Wow! What a task to go through all of that!  I was thinking Ebay for some of it too - LOL!
  • the welcome back Kotter is the best thing ever it made me smile today, when im home sick!
  • On a serious note, you probably could make some money off of this -- the first thing I thought of when I looked at the pics was that the Evil Knevil truck and Welcome Back Kotter album might be worth something.  If you're willing to commit the time, I'd Ebay some of it.  If not, it might be worth having someone like an antiques dealer come in and see if anything's worth selling.
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