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larry@stinescorner

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I would like to add a question to Dick 2 s post...I Have a friend in nj who bought a farm 30 years ago, on the farm was a real nice morton bulding,he filled it up with old furniture,not antiques,matresses etc,,,,,,just temperary,,,,,,30 years later ,you cant even walk in the morton bulding,a maze of stuff,,,,his tractors sit outside,,,,the old matreeses and stuff are tucked into the morton building,,,and,,,,,I Have gone to many farm auctions and seen similar situations,,,,,,have any of you seen it?
 
I have always wondered why anyone would save an old mattress from someone else's bed?

Box springs maybe?
 
Just a guess??/or/thought?? Wife or children, put more value on stuff "they might need/use later" than the man's tractors etc.
Also he might have not had final say in what was put in there???
In my estate liquidations, I've seen some awful ,in my opinion ,misplaced priority's, ***BUT*** the stuff belonged to them.
 
Larry I have cleaned up a few places from collective hoarders and from 50 years of storage No easy answer as to why.
 
I agree,I Dont tell him what to do,its his stuff,he is a good friend,its tuff to see him work on something outside when the weather is bad,when he has a shop,but cant hardly walk into it,the cats use the furniture so it is definatly shot
 
I think the matresses did belong to him,they were good when he put them in there? I know the cats like them and have used them for 30 years,a yellow and white cub tractor sits in the back yard for 30 years,was a showpiece when he bought it,has a flst front tire in the backyard ,not run in 10 years,I offerd to help him get it in the barn,he looked in the barn and said,someday,,,not today,,,,its his so what can you say
 
I see the same thing down here. Only it is equipment sitting in fields or in a line. Went to a place to other day. Counted three tractors and fourteen trailers. Just rotting away.
 
Larry, I have helped clean up a few undesirable cellars,really glad it was cold out. Had to completely renovate the inside of an old farm house because she was an animal hoarder. She had a New Idea spreader with the all the wood rotten just like in your pictures. I asked if she wanted to sell it and got a firm "no". She was upset with us and very resistant to change but she has lifetime rights to the house, what a bad idea! Greg
 
Before my folks moved off the farm where I grew up... my beloved Dad had his 2-1/2 car garage, a small machine shed AND his wood working shop (converted from an old hog house) packed to the gills.

He retired early at 52... and turned into a hoarder. A very, VERY LOVABLE hoarder - but a hoarder nonetheless. Mom and we kids teased him about it some, but he couldn't change.

I don't know if it was partially due to growing up during the depression years - being poor and doing without... or what. But to his dying day, he never changed - just the scale of his hoarding changed (he switched to hoarding recipes, kitchen gadgets and ink pens). AND we teased him about that too, and he took it in good nature. None of us ever understood it.

But you could never meet a more caring, loving, and flat-out fun and funny man than my Dad. He was THE BEST!
 
Yup, my father had a motor home. When he got too old to use it. It just sat there. He had a gazzilion offers to sell it (offers of $6,000-$8,000) and he refused. By the time he passed away it had deteriorated into a useless pile of junk. Dragged back to the woods after he died. A few years from now I'll simply bulldoze it into a pile and crush it with the dozer and cut up the steel for scap and save the front axle for a sap wagon.
 
Seen it? I live it - well, not quite, but close. My buildings are dangerous. Something could fall on you and you'd not be found for days. Some of us are just like that. I guess it could be considered a personality flaw of sorts, at least by some people. I feel like it keeps the undesirable snobs away, that is, until they need something fixed. As you get older you notice that those that care about such things don't matter, and those that matter don't care about such things. A case in point Larry is your friend in NJ. He's still your friend in spite of his flaws.
 
Larry it is not limited to sheds. There is fellow out here that goes to all the auctions around. He is the guy that buys the $1 boxes of stuff that no one else will bid on.

He has a farm. all the buildings have fallen down. He has storage sheds all over the place. Those that are built on runners. I would bet 15-20 of them. Then he has piles of stuff all around everything else.

He drives a smaller pickup, might be a Ford ranger. It is narrow. That is as wide as the drive way is. A few years ago his house caught fire. The fire department could not get the fire engine close enough to reach it with any hoses. It burnt to the ground before they finally got enough hoses rigged up to reach it.

He lives in a trailer now. I do not know what he does for a living. He would have some land rent but I have never seen him sell anything but he buys every day just about.
 
It's left over from the Depression era, many folks had to reuse all that they had. My grandmother would save rubberbands off celery and reuse aluminum foil to start.
 
I acknowledge that I have an urge to keep stuff that should be thrown way. My daughter asked my wife what she could get me (Dad) for Christmas?
Wife told her "just some rusty old farm implement"...ouch!

Opposite end of the scale..my brother bought a fancy 4 bdrm house from a couple and they had...4 plates, one pot, one skillet, 4 forks, 4 knives, 4 spoons. In the walk-in closet the owner had 3 shirts, one pair of pants and no shoes. Since he was wearing shoes, he didn't need a spare pair. 2 chairs in the LR. But,able to move out quickly

Now that is traveling light.
 
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