Uh, Memere will die. Presumably. At some point. She doesn't mean immediately, just eventually -- especially (I imagine) if my father can't live at home. We'll see what happens, but she definitely does have a point.

That's awesome, msbelle. I've a fondness for the turtles and trolls and whatnot made from old metal helmets.

Slept a lot again today. I am SO over this. It's been a week, possibly 2, but with lower-grade symptoms. My sinuses are getting in on the act. Not infectiony, just full.

I hated that my mom and dad sold their house, but they are so much happier not having to deal with the lawn and the repairs and all of it. It really was a great idea for them (although I worry that they chose a third-floor walk-up).

msbelle, slounge like the wind. Or the lazy breeze maybe.

the lawn and the repairs and all of it

Yeah, that's what she was talking about. Which makes sense, really.

Yeah, my parents like to go check out the local retirement homes/nursing homes because they get a free meal while the place is showing off. Oy.

But they do probably need to move at some point...but then they'd have to get rid of their STUFF...at least the current place is all one story.

Yeah, my parents like to go check out the local retirement homes/nursing homes because they get a free meal while the place is showing off. Oy.

Hahaha! I cannot wait to be old enough to do that -- I am all about the free meal and looking at places to live! In a casual manner.

My mom and dad are talking about moving the W/D upstairs because the basement stairs are steep as hell, but I don't see either of them moving, unless something catastrophic happened, or unless my dad goes first.

My mom wouldn't do well alone in the house; she'd have to have one of us stay there/with us, and there'd be blood within a month. I love my mom, so does my sister, but there's NO WAY we'd be able to live with her, unless needs truly, desperately dictated.

One reason I'm feeling the need to seriously declutter is seeing what it took to clear out my cousin's house.

I'm not making much progress, mind you. I just feel guiltier.

I could conceivably live with my mother. However, my sister lives with my mother, and my sister and I would end up like the Gingham Dog and the Calico Cat.

I hope DH's aunt lives forever, because I think the only option for decluttering her place would be to just set fire to it all and start from scratch. Which would be a shame because (a) she actually has some very nice things in there, many of them books, (b) it's a brownstone and a fire would cause significant collateral damage to the houses in either side, and (c) it's a rental, and not actually her heirs' to set fire to.

OMG, I heard some woman in an airport the other day talking about how they were going to burn her late uncle's house -- they had already sold the farm, but the buyers didn't want the house. I can't even imagine living in a place where that's the best way to get rid of a structure!