Ah, Sylvanian Families.. I was on the verge of reclaiming my dining room from the little woodland fookers until the new shop range came out and now there's a cruise ship thing arriving for her birthday
An entire round of school fees unmentioned by sibling is astonishing. I don't give a fig that my scrounging brother hits up my mum for air fares and living expenses and private medical bills (while she goes NHS). If she's mug enough to fall for it (while knowing he has the $600k proceeds from sellign his apartment sitting in the bank), more fool her and let's hope his sense of self worth isn't totally eroded from sitting in an octogenarian's spare room for years on end waiting for her to die instead of working and living his life. (how fooking ODD to sacrifice an entire life on the expectation of an inheritance, right?)
My elderly Dad has had a few skips in to de-clutter his house. I helped him with the heavy lifting for a couple of them. He did ask whether I wanted anything. Not really, its just stuff.
It’s truly odd what becomes acceptable in families. No two are alike of course, but misery seems near ubiquitous. I’ve got some furniture from grandparents. Fvck knows why, it’s cheap for its era. I can hear them asking wtf did you keep that crap for?
Much of this thread makes me glad to be an only child although as Nex says it has some down sides. On the other hand for the siblings out there you can adopt my granny's solution of running up enormous debts so there's nothing for your kids to fight over.
My current issue is a father who keeps trying to over complicate life with an obsession that the property market will rebound in 2020. Instead of us all moving to the barn when it's finished he wants to go halves on buying his own house with a mate of his to then rent it out so he'd release some capital but hang onto it as he doesn't think it will sell now. The fact that it's unlikely to rent for more than six months in any year and the know cost of maintenance is two thirds of the likely annual rent won't deter him. We didn't even cover the fact that he wants to create a company to do and will need to put into the company the half of the purchase price he doesn't have. Had a lovely frosty evening on Saturday after mum and I refused to agree to his plan.
If only he had a hobby other than sitting his armchair on the internet formulating half baked plans.
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It means throw away all your crap.
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that strange woman who makes your house look like a show home by sticking all your nice stuff in a skip, innit? oh no, that's my wife.
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Your kids will thank her when you're both brown bread.
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Clearly you dont have any kids, they thank you for nothing except lego or nintendo games. possibly sylvanian families.
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I'm assuming Mutters' kids are older than five.
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Does it spark joy, mother f***er?
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Ah, Sylvanian Families.. I was on the verge of reclaiming my dining room from the little woodland fookers until the new shop range came out and now there's a cruise ship thing arriving for her birthday
An entire round of school fees unmentioned by sibling is astonishing. I don't give a fig that my scrounging brother hits up my mum for air fares and living expenses and private medical bills (while she goes NHS). If she's mug enough to fall for it (while knowing he has the $600k proceeds from sellign his apartment sitting in the bank), more fool her and let's hope his sense of self worth isn't totally eroded from sitting in an octogenarian's spare room for years on end waiting for her to die instead of working and living his life. (how fooking ODD to sacrifice an entire life on the expectation of an inheritance, right?)
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My elderly Dad has had a few skips in to de-clutter his house. I helped him with the heavy lifting for a couple of them. He did ask whether I wanted anything. Not really, its just stuff.
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Escaped - a Sylvanian cruise ship!!!! How marvellous (rushes off to investigate on Google).
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It’s truly odd what becomes acceptable in families. No two are alike of course, but misery seems near ubiquitous. I’ve got some furniture from grandparents. Fvck knows why, it’s cheap for its era. I can hear them asking wtf did you keep that crap for?
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oh, and Marie Kondo can go fook herself
I own ‘000s of books, many are valuable and I love them all.
She presents as a humourless person who can’t afford living space.
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What Cookie said 're books, except mine aren't valuable except to me.
Anyone touch my books and I swear I'll do time.
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I don't care about old chairs which I may have sat on all the time as a toddler. I don't remember. I did keep a few books.
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Much of this thread makes me glad to be an only child although as Nex says it has some down sides. On the other hand for the siblings out there you can adopt my granny's solution of running up enormous debts so there's nothing for your kids to fight over.
My current issue is a father who keeps trying to over complicate life with an obsession that the property market will rebound in 2020. Instead of us all moving to the barn when it's finished he wants to go halves on buying his own house with a mate of his to then rent it out so he'd release some capital but hang onto it as he doesn't think it will sell now. The fact that it's unlikely to rent for more than six months in any year and the know cost of maintenance is two thirds of the likely annual rent won't deter him. We didn't even cover the fact that he wants to create a company to do and will need to put into the company the half of the purchase price he doesn't have. Had a lovely frosty evening on Saturday after mum and I refused to agree to his plan.
If only he had a hobby other than sitting his armchair on the internet formulating half baked plans.
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