Reality Check

I had a reality check yesterday.
The old lady that lived next door to me died a few weeks ago.
Her "family" which after living next door to her for 28 years I have never seen before.
Had a skip to put her home into.
I found this very sad.
She was a dear old sole with a nice clean comfy home.
I'm sure most of the things they smashed up and threw away would have been of better used at a charity or some homeless centre rather than on a land fill site.
We have at least 5 charities shops 3 with vans that collect within 10 mins from here.
I'm just waiting to see what happens today to the rest of her things and her house which she owned.
With all the talk of recycling and helping the environment I can't believe how thoughtless and selfish some people can be.

 

You wouldn't believe the stuff the lady next door threw out when her husband died. I think it might be part of a cleansing process down to grief.

Needless to say, most of that stuff is being put to good use by me now.

 

Sad examples and seen all too often.
My job involves elderly folks and you wouldn't believe the number of times i only see the relatives when the person has 'gone', they sift through their homes like it meant nothing, it's a real insight into human nature

And people wonder why i prefer animals :WINK1:

 

I few weeks ago the elderly neighbour of my father-in-law died and the stuff that his son/family didn't want he put out on the front with signs along the lines of "free to a good home, please look after us"; much of it was gardening related, plants, pots, canes, ornaments etc.. at least this way someone else is getting the enjoyment out his late father's passion instead of it being tipped..:thumb:

I gladly gave a home to a few plants and some pots...

 

Next door, the daughter and her husband left loads of stuff behind including her father's military medals.

When my wife's great aunt died her step-son just wanted to take the entire contents of the house to the tip, but I immediately hired a transit van for the weekend and got loads of 1930/40's furniture, furnishings, dinner/tea sets, 1930's lamp shades, Nottingham lace (net) curtains, 1930's curtain poles and fittings, chenile door curtains and fittings, Dorcas bed sets, unused/opened sets of Irish linen, handmade lace tablecloths, embroidered table cloths, etc., etc. The whole lot was going to be chucked into landfill and it even included boxes of family photographs.

Unfortunately my mother in law pointed out that the antique carriage clock and the six (might have been 12) gold sovereigns were valuable, otherwise we would've also had those out the bin bags together with loads of other good stuff.

And he bought us several beers for helping out and saving him having to pay another weeks rent.

When we got married my wife wore her salvalged great aunt's 1920's white 'flapper' dress and I wore her husband's shoes.