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Packing up all the Insanity!

June 14th, 2006 at 10:18 pm

I did help my neighbor today who got "evicted" out of her house due to divorce and bankuptcy. Not a good idea on my part.....I tried but had to leave after one hour. I helped by going thru JUNK...and pitching it. I made a huge dent in one area. But then my friend wanted to weed thru it all "just to be sure" nothing good was pitched. We are talking junk here. Pure trash! I am about as thrifty as them come....but she is really not seeing and thinking straight. Poor thing. I saw a huge stack of Bed, bath and Beyond store Coupons...like 15. I went to pitch and she yelled. My friend is BROKE....I told her you can NOT go shopping there. Then she had a stack about 12 inches high of pizza coupons.All expired from 2005.

There was dog hair everywhere. I decided I had to get myself and my three girls out of there.....I felt bad but I told her we had a dentist apt. I did feel badly...but she was acting so strange-it was not good for my girls. Her and her daughter were fighting over a $500 cell phone bill. How does it get that high????That is when I said to myself...I need to remove myself from all this anger and craziness.

I hope she lands on her feet. I feel her situation is almost dire becasue she has so much stuff it is insane! She needed to pack up about two years ago....As I was leaving the UPS man stopped and I got a package for her from him...it was from QVC! I was shocked....she told me she bought some space bags! I then knew no amount of space bags would help this situation. Sometimes we have to get deep in the pit ourselves so we can figure how to climb out and that can be a good and valuable lesson. I truly pray that she finds some peace and her life can be much more simple in the future.

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6 Responses to “Packing up all the Insanity!”

  1. veronak Says:
    June 14th, 2006 at 10:51 pm 1150325494
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    My, I read this and immediately thought of my friend. Poor thng she probably has no clue what to do next, just hang in there for her

  2. frontporchmom Says:
    June 15th, 2006 at 12:12 am 1150330345
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    I decided to just encourage her. There are a few ladies from the local church helping her pack. I truly think that I am not supposed to help but just be there as a friend. It is sad to say--but it shows how out of control things can get in life. It is prety tragic.

  3. Thrifty Ray Says:
    June 15th, 2006 at 02:48 pm 1150382891
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    Sometimes, when we can't control the big things, we over control the little things.

    Your friend will need your friendship as she works through all of this. Sounds like she has alot of healing to do.

  4. frontporchmom Says:
    June 15th, 2006 at 03:38 pm 1150385922
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    yes..she does need to do some major healing. I feel very badly for her kids they are going thru alot of stress and pain. The are older kids -- two out of three are in deep deep debt already and they are in their early twenties....it is sad. She has gone thru Divorce Care twice so far withme....but I think all the day to day probelms just is to overwhelming for now.

  5. annab Says:
    June 15th, 2006 at 05:20 pm 1150392053
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    It's not my place, but she sounds like a hoarder. It's kind of like OCD, and it might be really helpful for her if she could seek professional help for it.

  6. frontporchmom Says:
    June 16th, 2006 at 12:13 am 1150416788
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    At this point I have tried to share that a bit and tried to explain that she is not a bad person...but she is using horading and shopping non stop as a drug. That there is some issues that are deep and underlining. She tells me she used to be so neat and organized.....I keep telling it that I am sure that is the case....and that when things get too big to handle sometimes we just do what we can to survive the tramas in life. She has seen some therapists but they gave up on her when they saw she had zero money to pay. She just told me she has an entire attic filled with teddy bears and gifts in case she needs to bless someone. I was pretty shocked...but I tried tonot look at her shocked!! I guess it was so bad and overflowing --the mover who was there to give her an estimate to move her belongings hugged her because he felt sorry for her. WOW!
    So if you are a believer and like to pray please lift up this lady in need of much....GD..... in prayer. Thank you!

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