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shinelumiere) wrote2012-08-09 06:41 pm
shinelumiere) wrote2012-08-09 06:41 pm
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Its been a long two weeks....
It's probably been longer, spread out over the last year and a half or so, since mom's been having someone in to clean grand-moms trailer and trying to thin out the stuff that grand-mom has.
After Grand-mom fell back in November and ended up in the hospital and then the rehab/nursing home, we(mostly mom) have been dealing with the miles and miles of red tape and scrounging through grand-moms paperwork to get them the information they require to do sometimes the simplest of things...
So naturally, the majority of the contents of grand-moms trailer sat untouched until the last couple of weeks when mom told the lady who owns the trailer park where it's parked that grand-mom couldn't afford the rent on it, and mom would not pay it. Long story short, we spent last week speed packing a trailer. At one point mom laughed and said she pitied me and my brothers, when my parents are gone and we have to clear out their place when comparing the size of grand-moms trailer (16' x 48') to our house (2'000+ sq'). I told her that at least when that happens, my brothers are more likely to be interested in keeping some of the things in your house, unlike your brother seems with his mothers.
Last weekend was spent mostly over at my grandmothers trailer packing up things and cleaning up the place. We left it smelling a lot less like an old ladies house which, while the old lady smell isn't a bad thing, its not what someone wants to smell coming into a house they might buy. Hopefully the lady who owns the lot that was going to buy the place will give mom more than her original offer, since now they don't have to clear anything out before they either fix it up or sell it to the next person, which, who knows, we'll see.
Now the fun is in sorting through all the stuff we quickly packed up, cleaning what needs cleaned and trying to figure out what who wants to keep and what needs sold on to help pay off things that need paid off and such.
We've found some interesting things, so far mostly papers, since those are the things we've had to locate for information needed. I found a report card of my grandmothers from 1929 when she was in the 4th grade, and also one that was my mothers brothers report card from some year in high school. We found the marriage certificate of my grandmothers parents from 1906, which is now over 100 years old as well as the certificate for my grandfathers confirmation from the early 1930's not to mention all the photos that we're still finding tucked in random places.
Needless to say, we're going to be busy for the next month or so, going through all these things and trying to get things sent on their way, wherever their way might be.
After Grand-mom fell back in November and ended up in the hospital and then the rehab/nursing home, we(mostly mom) have been dealing with the miles and miles of red tape and scrounging through grand-moms paperwork to get them the information they require to do sometimes the simplest of things...
So naturally, the majority of the contents of grand-moms trailer sat untouched until the last couple of weeks when mom told the lady who owns the trailer park where it's parked that grand-mom couldn't afford the rent on it, and mom would not pay it. Long story short, we spent last week speed packing a trailer. At one point mom laughed and said she pitied me and my brothers, when my parents are gone and we have to clear out their place when comparing the size of grand-moms trailer (16' x 48') to our house (2'000+ sq'). I told her that at least when that happens, my brothers are more likely to be interested in keeping some of the things in your house, unlike your brother seems with his mothers.
Last weekend was spent mostly over at my grandmothers trailer packing up things and cleaning up the place. We left it smelling a lot less like an old ladies house which, while the old lady smell isn't a bad thing, its not what someone wants to smell coming into a house they might buy. Hopefully the lady who owns the lot that was going to buy the place will give mom more than her original offer, since now they don't have to clear anything out before they either fix it up or sell it to the next person, which, who knows, we'll see.
Now the fun is in sorting through all the stuff we quickly packed up, cleaning what needs cleaned and trying to figure out what who wants to keep and what needs sold on to help pay off things that need paid off and such.
We've found some interesting things, so far mostly papers, since those are the things we've had to locate for information needed. I found a report card of my grandmothers from 1929 when she was in the 4th grade, and also one that was my mothers brothers report card from some year in high school. We found the marriage certificate of my grandmothers parents from 1906, which is now over 100 years old as well as the certificate for my grandfathers confirmation from the early 1930's not to mention all the photos that we're still finding tucked in random places.
Needless to say, we're going to be busy for the next month or so, going through all these things and trying to get things sent on their way, wherever their way might be.