My Mom and Grandson Never Met But...
By celticeagle
@celticeagle (189927)
Boise, Idaho
March 10, 2023 3:55pm CST
I was just setting here typing a response to a comment on here and had this interesting thought. My mother was a bit of a hoarder. She was born in 1924 and lived through the Depression. She saved stuff thinking perhaps there would be some use for it down the line. She died in the mid-'90s. My grandson was born in 2002. They never met, right? Yet my grandson is just like she used to be. He saves old electronics thinking perhaps there will be some use for them down the line.
Isn't that funny? Is this characteristic in the genes somewhere or what?
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@DaddyEvil (174590)
• United States
11 Mar 23
I don't know if it's in the genes or what... My parents lived through the Great Depression and saved all kinds of things. I save things, too, thinking we might need it further down the line. That's the reason Pretty sorted everything we owned before we moved to this house. She doesn't save things like I do and didn't care where it came from. If we didn't need it now, it went somewhere else before we moved.
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@celticeagle (189927)
• Boise, Idaho
12 Mar 23
@DaddyEvil ..........That's going small for sure. Ours is a 3 bedroom apartment. My grandson's room is packed with his stuff. We really need a garage.
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@celticeagle (189927)
• Boise, Idaho
11 Mar 23
That's my grandson's thinking on it.
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@DaddyEvil (174590)
• United States
11 Mar 23
@ramapo17 I was still a teenager when we moved from the farmhouse into the city after my dad passed away. Mom went through everything and sold off everything she and dad had amassed over their marriage. If we didn't need it anymore, mom sold it. It made the move a lot easier.
When Pretty and I moved five years ago, we went from a 1,400 sq ft house to a 750 sq ft house so as much of our stuff had to go before we moved as we could manage and we still gave away furniture and "stuff" after we moved and saw how small the house actually was... The thrift store here in town got most of it.
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@Deepizzaguy (122238)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
10 Mar 23
My youngest nephew who never knew my late father has an uncanny facial resemblance to him.
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@celticeagle (189927)
• Boise, Idaho
12 Mar 23
@Deepizzaguy ...........Relish was in your heart when you found this new one. He might even have helped you choose the new one.
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@Deepizzaguy (122238)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
12 Mar 23
@celticeagle Even though Relish did were not the best of friends, I will always loved him.
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@BarBaraPrz (51837)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
11 Mar 23
Well, your mom's DNA is in you, and therefore in your son, too, sooo...
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@BarBaraPrz (51837)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
11 Mar 23
@celticeagle I meant daughter who had a son...
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@celticeagle (189927)
• Boise, Idaho
12 Mar 23
@BarBaraPrz ........That's the one.
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@celticeagle (189927)
• Boise, Idaho
11 Mar 23
I don't have a son. He's my grandson.
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@celticeagle (189927)
• Boise, Idaho
12 Mar 23
@ramapo17 ............I wish there some of those left to tell me such things. They are all gone now.
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@ramapo17 (30441)
• Melbourne, Florida
12 Mar 23
@celticeagle That is to bad. We don't realize how much people mean to us until they are gone.
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@DianneN (254926)
• United States
11 Mar 23
My father was a child of that era and used to hang on to certain things, but I wouldn't call him a hoarder. I don't think your grandson is, either.
Being a hoarder is an obsessive-compulsive disorder. I haven't heard of it being in the genes or DNA.
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@celticeagle (189927)
• Boise, Idaho
11 Mar 23
I think you are right. My mistake.
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@celticeagle (189927)
• Boise, Idaho
11 Mar 23
@DianneN .........I was being facetious.
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@DianneN (254926)
• United States
11 Mar 23
@celticeagle Because I haven't heard of it doesn't mean a thing
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@LindaOHio (222624)
• United States
13 Mar 23
It might just be a coincidence. My husband is a hoarder and food hoarder. I keep trying to declutter the house; and he keeps bringing stuff in.
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@celticeagle (189927)
• Boise, Idaho
14 Mar 23
It is a habit that is hard to break.
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@shaggin (74987)
• United States
10 Mar 23
Yes that is very interesting!
My mother can’t believe she gave birth to someone so much like her mother when I comes to how I care for the earth. My mother doesn’t recycle or do anything to try to do good by the earth. She said she always hated how her mom would rinse the cans and recycle them and things like that so she never wanted to do all that when she grew up.
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@celticeagle (189927)
• Boise, Idaho
11 Mar 23
It tends to skip a generation it seems.
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@wolfgirl569 (135881)
• Marion, Ohio
11 Mar 23
I don't think it is. But they have said some odd things are so you never know. I started decluttering heavier after cleaning out my mother in law place and then my parents. All of them lived through the depression. For those it was a learned survival thing
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@RasmaSandra (98026)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
10 Mar 23
I suppose it could be something in the genese.
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@JamesHxstatic (29410)
• Eugene, Oregon
10 Mar 23
It really is odd how that trait seemed to come through.
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@RubyHawk (99367)
• Atlanta, Georgia
11 Mar 23
@celticeagle We can Never be sure but it seems likely.
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