Thread: How old is your granny?

Originally Posted by HARRYWALLY

87. We just moved her into a retirement home. She has trouble walking and getting around, but she's still as sharp as a tack!

Can't believe the crap we pulled out of her crawl space..... like bags and bags of...... plastic bags!!! What the hang!!

My Grands are all passed-on.

Funny how the old ones are such hoarders. My grandmother on my mom's side had a drawer in which she saved the strings which wrapped the newspapers

I am now tasked with clearing the in-laws house. In their 80's. off to a retirement community, He is in bad health and does not care and she does not remember.
SO much junk. I have filled my 3 yard dumpster 6 times. Tip of the iceberg, I am afraid!

Yesterday, I found a drawer filled with twisty-ties from bread-wrappers............ It gets better!

Yup, and plenty of empty boxes waiting to be used for who knows what. She also had a liquor cabinet stocked for an army. Couldn't believe the stuff we found.

She also had a lot of these things called books??? Not sure what those are used for.

Originally Posted by Razorfeld

Since both Grandmas have long since past, one past before I was born, I'm hard pressed to even estimate what their ages would have been today. But since I am now at an age that I know passes where they were when they passed it tends to sober me. Received, just today, a letter from a young Granddaughter asking for ancestral info for a school project she's working on. That, in itself, casts a very sober caul on my current events.

Well. If it helps, Richard.....I have adopted you as my Grandma with the absence of one.
Your great common sense and wisdom reminds me of her, although you are still much younger!

Originally Posted by HARRYWALLY

Yup, and plenty of empty boxes waiting to be used for who knows what. She also had a liquor cabinet stocked for an army. Couldn't believe the stuff we found.

She also had a lot of these things called books??? Not sure what those are used for.

Books? I completely filled a 4x3 recycling bin with cookbooks and recipes yesterday. Woman could NOT cook!
I tossed at least 8 different books on shorthand!

Originally Posted by rhensley

She's 86 and lives in Trenton Tn.

lodge no. If granny was still here she would be over 120.

Originally Posted by sharptonn

Books? I completely filled a 4x3 recycling bin with cookbooks and recipes yesterday. Woman could NOT cook!
I tossed at least 8 different books on shorthand!

Ha! And here I thought I scored big time. I kept them all!!! I love baking.

The SAME stuff! Tell ya what. I found Aunt Dirgie's recipes all in a cigar box in the attic. Her husband, 'Cotton' Was in the first Ford dealership in Texas. Knew Henry Ford personally. Got mustard-gassed in WWI.. They got married in '22. Her dad built the house for them soon after.
I cleaned-out their house as-well. Same house until 1998, I think?
Tied-up with a string. Some oooollld recipes!

Coming atcha!

Originally Posted by sharptonn

The SAME stuff! Tell ya what. I found Aunt Dirgie's recipes all in a cigar box in the attic. Her husband, 'Cotton' Was in the first Ford dealership in Texas. Knew Henry Ford personally. Got mustard-gassed in WWI.. They got married in '22. Her dad built the house for them soon after.
I cleaned-out their house as-well. Same house until 1998, I think?
Tied-up with a string. Some oooollld recipes!

Coming atcha!

Oh boy! Sooo cool! Man I might have to enter the local fair with one of these recipes! Thanks Tom.

Originally Posted by HARRYWALLY

Oh boy! Sooo cool! Man I might have to enter the local fair with one of these recipes! Thanks Tom.

Cool! I shall go dig the cigar box outa the recycle bin tomorrow. I hate to throw this stuff away. Overwhelmed, I guess.
Nobody is helping me.
I have nowhere to store it, nobody is interested. SO much stuff! Gathering up stuff and asking folks if they want it. Set it by the dumpster and it is gone. DISHES! What's up with all the dishes and generational china and silverware? MY!
Pictures of people who nobody knows who they are?

Kinda sad.

Royal Doulton figures?

Grandma had many. I got a little bull dog and my girls each got one of a lady.