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Went in a house one day old guy lived there he had stacks of playboy magazines about four feet high throughout the entire house to were it was nothing but paths going from room to room.
I have a friend who collects anything with an elephant on it. I knew she liked this stuff but didn't realize it was more of an obsession with her till I visited her house for the first time. Holy cow!!! Every surface in the house was covered with these statues, pictures, keychains, etc....Anything with an elephant on it. The walls were smothered with pictures of elephants. You couldn't sit down without moving a pile of junk, I mean collectibles.
Talk about overwhelming!
My mom, on the other hand, saves everything, "just in case." When my brother and I moved her to a new house a few years ago, we were floored by how much she had hidden in weird places. We knew she was a pack rat but forgot how bad she was till we had to pack her house up. When we tried to pick up the love seat, it weighed a ton. It didn't look heavy. We took the cushions off only to find loads of magazines, small books, etc....hidden there. When we finally lifted it up, there were literally hundreds of magazines stuffed under it.
Recently, she complained that her freezer just didn't keep her food frozen anymore and she needed a new one. When I went home for a visit, I saw why it didn't work. The freezer was stuffed so much that the door wouldn't close all the way. After I tossed all the un-identified stuff out, the freezer worked like a charm. She couldn't understand why her electric bill was high either.
I attended a party one time at a lawyer's house. Really fancy mansion with beautiful decorations everywhere. I remember thinking how rich these people were as I was using their golden toilet.
Turns out that he played the tuba while in college, and I'm not welcome at their house anymore.
Delay... LOL It's even funnier when you don't get it right away!
I once visited a home that was decorated by a proud new-ager, entirely in the color in purple. I found it to be rather annoying. I like purple but it has it's place.
I once visited a home that was decorated by a proud new-ager, entirely in the color in purple. I found it to be rather annoying. I like purple but it has it's place.
You just reminded me of an incident - let me turn on the way-back machine, and set it to when I was still married....my then hubby came back from a day spent working in a woman's house where everything was purple. And I mean everything. The walls, the furniture, the drapes, the pot as well as the plant in it was purple (they had spray painted the dried plant purple, I am serious). Instead of the expected response, he asked why we couldn't decorate our place similarly. I told him I didn't want to live in a place where it looked like Barney threw up, and then blew up.
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