I have a wonderful family and I love them dearly, but I must admit to one failing of the clan that can be irritating sometimes. It is, perhaps, a hold-over from the Depression mentality that pervades us because my parents are still living and cling so tenatiously to that conservative attitude.
Most folks, when they have a few items left behind after the clan had descended on their last visit, would simply put said items in a box, take them down to the Post Office, and spend three dollars to ship them back home. But oh, no, not my family. That would be a shameful waste of money! They put them in a stack in the corner, to sit there for perhaps four months until someone comes through on a visit from that part of the country, then they say, "Oh, by the way, can you take these fourteen items back with you and give them to (respectively) Herkimer, Aloysius, Farquhar and Billy Joe Bob?" Then, the visitors will load them into their vehicle, which already was packed to the gills with their belongings plus various and sundry unnecessary items, not to mention seven children, several in-laws, two third cousins once removed and a passing bum who happened to get swept up in the packing, to be carried back across the country, overlooked in the unpacking, set in a corner and left there for six months until someone happens to think, "I wonder who that belongs to?"
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Do we do that?
Hahah. Yep.
Ah, so this is YOUR sack...
I just love when that happens with children's clothing...and by the time you get it back they have outgrown it, but you save it because someone in the other place has a child that will soon fit it. But by the time that child gets it, he, too has outgrown the article of clothing. So that, finally, even though it has lived 7 years in 5 houses belonging to 12 different children, someone can finally sell the item and list it as "barely worn"!
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