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Some Pictures From My Father's Place

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Taosman said:
Looks like my mother-in law from Hell's place now. When asked about it she replied; "I'm leaving it for you kids to clean up!" (unsaid...as a punishment for abandoning her) It's not unusual at all. We had a friend who's father worked at a dump for twenty years. He brought home everything! 20 broken lawnmowers. 5 driving mowers. Dead refrigerators. Broken furniture. Old clothes. An old Victorian house stuffed with crap. It made Dub's father's place look organized.
Six huge metal dumpsters. That's what it took to make a dent! :hoke: And not one 1966 Shelby Cobra or Ferrari!
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My inlaws frequently tell us that we will have to clean up their hoard. When they run out of space, they just build a new barn to hold more crap.
I once told them 'no problem, I've got a match'. My husband tells me I'm no longer permitted to say this, as apparently they were very unhappy to hear it. So I keep my mouth shut and will make the husband deal with it when it happens.
 
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When I think about hoards, I am always reminded of all those episodes of Antiques Roadshow, where someone went to a yard sale and for .75 cents acquired some unrecognized treasure worth a guhzillion dollars.* I know it's a long shot, but if the relatives aren't fecal-matter collectors, I'd have a hard time not giving the contents at least a cursory inspection before I sprayed them down with lighter fluid.

*I also remember my late husband's claim that, when one of the family's maiden aunts in Boston died, his father took over the task of clearing out her home. This was a lady born in the 1800's. Hubby swore his dad carted not one, but two, Tiffany lamps out to the curb for the garbage men. Not Tiffany-style lamps, mind you. Actual LCT lamps. I'm inclined to believe some amazing objects have ended up as landfill. (BTW, the lamps never made it to the dump. Some enterprising folks screeched to a halt & loaded the lamps into their car. I believe they currently live on their plantation in Argentina. :wink: )
 
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LoudBuckeyeGirl said:
My inlaws frequently tell us that we will have to clean up their hoard. When they run out of space, they just build a new barn to hold more crap.
I once told them 'no problem, I've got a match'. My husband tells me I'm no longer permitted to say this, as apparently they were very unhappy to hear it. So I keep my mouth shut and will make the husband deal with it when it happens.
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I already told him that I'm going to clean it up with a bulldozer, wrecking ball and a couple of dump trucks. When I'm done it will be a bare lot. The house is so out of code from all the jerry rigging there's no way it could be sold.
 
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DubCoffman62 said:
I already told him that I'm going to clean it up with a bulldozer, wrecking ball and a couple of dump trucks. When I'm done it will be a bare lot. The house is so out of code from all the jerry rigging there's no way it could be sold.
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I am curious as to where the City/County folks are that are responsible for making sure folks follow the laws relative to zoning and/or handle nuisance abatement. This looks like some sort of incorporated community that would have some sort of requirements.
 
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buckeyebri said:
I am curious as to where the City/County folks are that are responsible for making sure folks follow the laws relative to zoning and/or handle nuisance abatement. This looks like some sort of incorporated community that would have some sort of requirements.
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This is his other property a few blocks away. He has renters there so some of the shit is theirs but the stuff to the left is his
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buckeyebri said:
I am curious as to where the City/County folks are that are responsible for making sure folks follow the laws relative to zoning and/or handle nuisance abatement. This looks like some sort of incorporated community that would have some sort of requirements.
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I got a notice from the city that my driveway was too cracked. My asphalt driveway had too many cracks. And some trim around some windows needed to be painted. Small stuff like that. They came back and said if I don't fix it, they have the right to fine me and even make me do jail time. I didn't doubt that they could fine me, but the jail time seemed like an empty threat. I took care of the issues, but it's funny that they threaten me with jail time for having cracks in the driveway (while they ignore the 6-inch deep pot-holes in my street), and some people are allowed to hoard decades' worth of junk in their front lawns.
 
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bigdog3300 said:
Easily one of the most interesting threads on BP I've come across....I'm sure your dad has some good stories to tell around the campfire, and that'd be a good way to use up some of that wood...
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Here's a story for you
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This lonely looking trailer. about 3 doors down from my father's place, used to be a lively place. Many of the local kids, younger than I was at the time, used to hang out here with a short, pot bellied balding man of 40 something. A couple of kids that liked to hang out here came up missing. They were found at the bottom of a mineshaft. Kids starting coming forward with allegations that he was giving them pot and booze and molesting them. One of the fathers murdered him inside this very trailer. This was 20 some years ago.
 
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DubCoffman62 said:
Here's a story for you
This lonely looking trailer. about 3 doors down from my father's place, used to be a lively place. Many of the local kids, younger than I was at the time, used to hang out here with a short, pot bellied balding man of 40 something. A couple of kids that liked to hang out here came up missing. They were found at the bottom of a mineshaft. Kids starting coming forward with allegations that he was giving them pot and booze and molesting them. One of the fathers murdered him inside this very trailer. This was 20 some years ago.
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Beat Nebraska
 
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