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**amanjay**
Back to our discussion below about our parents and all of their crap...
Are you sure we don't have the same mother? My mother turned my bedroom into a "USA" themed room about five minutes after I moved out - my brother's room, of course, is still the way he left it. It is so gaudy and I was so annoyed considering when we moved into that house my room had baby border in it - BABY BORDER - and she refused to change it because it was "too difficult." I was a high school girl with BABY BORDER in her room. But now it is this USA crap with USA border - God, it is so ugly.
She also wallpapered my old bathroom in patriotic motif and it totally annoys me because the wallpaper doesn't line up right. Seriously, five minutes after I moved out she did all of this "redecorating." Ridiculous. Awful!!!!
Re: **amanjay**
Ha! We might!
I'm just thrilled she let the animal themes go around 2002. Until then, we had a scottie dog themed bathroom, chicken themed kitchen, and goose and gander themed dining room.
Now she's down to the chili pepper kitchen and USA bathroom (though it's not red-white-blue, it's maroon-cream-navy.) And, as I'm sure you know, it's not like one or two cute little things. It's like 50/room.
It could be worse, I suppose. My grandmother has a coal mining themed living room, an outhouse themed bathroom, and a lighthouse themed sun porch which are, quite literally so covered, that the pictured on the wall are ALL stacked on top of each other (like floor to ceiling pictures.)
The theme for my whole house is: beige house.
If grandma is a 10 in decorating intesity and mom is an 8, and I'm a 2, I'd like to be at a 3 someday, I think. No worries, though. When grandma goes, I'm literally set to inherit over 1200 glass cat figurines from her from one of the themed bedrooms.
My husband and I have a running joke that when my parents kick the bucket we are going to place a very large dumpster outside their front door and just shovel all the sh!t into it. They wanted to move for awhile and had some realtors look at their house - every.single.relator said that they needed to rent a storage facility to keep some of the stuff in while the house was for sale and my mother was completely offended.
To each his own. My parents prefer to have random sh!t all over their walls - I prefer to paint the walls to create ambiance. I hated dusting all that crap when I was growing up.
We are going to do this at my grandma's but 1st have one big garage sale becuase know there will be some people that think her sh!t is just great. The only thing I want is her costume jewelry collection.
Your parents ain't got nothin' on the old lady who used to live down the street from my grandparent's old house! This woman had a Pinnochio-themed bathroom. Like, seriously.. every frickin' Pinnochio collectible you could possibly imagine resided in her bathroom. She also had a giant glass case next to the bathroom door overflowing with more Pinnochio crap because her bathroom was too full and she ran out of room.
Even when I was in sixth grade the place was frickin' hysterical. I wish, wish, wish I had photos of it.
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