Chatterbox Thread-Cmon in and Jabber! Everyone is Welcome!

[sameyeyam]

Pixster, we all know about your little Tag collection. I see them out there, floating around innocently in fellow Diser's signatures. I bet you hoard hundreds of them on your computer.

 

[sameyeyam]

Kelly, Kelly, Dear Kelly....Migraines? Seriously, just how many of them are you going to hoard? Don't you think it's about time you gave some of them to somebody else?

 

[sameyeyam]

Then there's poor Dizzy. She seems to hoard infractions from the Dis Masters along with gazillions of little bald blue men shaking their head. Seriously, that's one messed up hoarder!

 

[sameyeyam]

Then there's our dear Moto. I've seen those kitty cat photos and I'm starting to think that it's not just one or two...she really does hoard cats! Is this the start of crazy cat lady?

 

[sameyeyam]

And as if cat's weren't enough, Mel seems to have a rather large cow hoard. She blames it on her neighbors, but I have a feeling if you looked on Google Earth, she would be standing right in the middle of a heard of about 1,000 with one of her cute little aprons on holding a glass of wine.

 

[eatmypixiedust]

B. wipe that Diet Coke off the screen now. Besides, why are you laughing? We all know you hoard coupons, hundreds & hundreds of coupons.

Too funny Alison! BTW, who collects tapes? Everyone knows that DVR is the way to go now. My friend told me that there was one episode where this woman had a ton of cats. If they disappeared, she assumed they ran away but then when they uncovered piles in her home, they found the body of the cats buried underneath all the stuff she had in her home. Scary!

Does Bernice hoard expired coupons too? J/k.


I love watching Clean House. I think it's funny when Niecy describes room as a "hot mess!" I also like seeing the end result of their decorating.

I'm so happy that next week I will get to watch new episodes of Fringe and House.

 

[sameyeyam]

I'm in a lot of trouble right now arent' i?

But you know I love you guys, right, right, right...hello, is anybody there?

I'm going to catch heck for this aren't I? It's ok, go ahead, slaughter me, I can handle it!

 

[sameyeyam]

Too funny Alison! BTW, who collects tapes? Everyone knows that DVR is the way to go now. My friend told me that there was one episode where this woman had a ton of cats. If they disappeared, she assumed they ran away but then when they uncovered piles in her home, they found the body of the cats buried underneath all the stuff she had in her home. Scary!

Does Bernice hoard expired coupons too? J/k.


I love watching Clean House. I think it's funny when Niecy describes room as a "hot mess!" I also like seeing the end result of their decorating.

I'm so happy that next week I will get to watch new episodes of Fringe and House.

Why yes, B. does collect expired coupons. I've sent some to her in the past. One of my favorite hoarders was the pumpkin lady. She collected beautiful pumpkins that eventually rotted. Seriously, doesn't this lady know that you can go to Target at Halloween and buy hundreds of non-rotting pumpkins in all sorts of shapes and sizes?

Yeah, I like Clean House also. To me the Hoarders show is people that definitely have mental issues. Clean House is just people that seem too lazy to get their rears up off the couch and clean.

 

[MotoXPrincess99]

OMG! Alison you know us too well!

 

[kelmac284]

OMG Alison you kill me!!!

I sure needed that and YES I need to share the wealth and give some of these damn headaches away!! And some of my other craptastic stuff too LOL.

I needed that laugh! Thanks!!

Oh and Rochelle you love Fringe!! Yay!! A fellow Fringe watcher!!! Now I have someone to talk shop about!!! I can't WAIT for it to come out and in fact that is one of the shows I collect on dvd. The 2nd season came out on Tues but due to my recent lack of funds I have to wait to get it but I can't WAIT till next week!! I was actually thinking about starting to watch House since most of the shows I used to watch are no longer on. I was an avid Heroes, Lost and Ghost Whisperer fan and ALL of those are gone as well as Flash Forward and some others that I liked.

Fringe is about the only thing left on that I love! I do watch survivor and Amazing Race and I do like those but I LOVE the sci fi shows and it seems like they are getting away from those again.

I am going to watch the event and no ordinary family and hope they are good and don't get cancelled!!!

So if I start watching house will I be out of the loop since I haven't BEEN watching or is it one of those shows that is kind of a new one every week type deal that you don't really have to have been following along too much??

 

[sameyeyam]

Well I didn't want to mention Albort, but you know I've seen photos of his place on FB and well...the entire living room is filled with Churros! Thousands and thousands and thousands of churros. Open closets and there are churros, bathtub - filled with churros, even his fireplace has no logs - it's piles of burning churros!

Oh and did I mention the pool furniture? Well let's just say there are no tables, chairs & lounge chairs. It's been replaced by about 50 ODV carts with umbrellas! ODV carts filled with churros that is!

All those churros & ODV carts surrounded by hundreds of crazy DIS ladies that stalk & come to visit him every week.

 

[sameyeyam]

Now on a more serious note, I need some advice. Yesterday I receive a private message from an old high school friend on FB. She lives in the town I work in, I've chatted on FB with her the last year or so, but haven't met for lunch or anything. We were friends in school, but not like best buds or anything like that.

Anyway, she had an abusive husband and recently went thru a divorce last year. She has a job, but I think she basically left everything behind to get away from him. He threatened her, she had to take a leave from work for a few weeks and move into a women's shelter so he wouldn't know where she was.

She sent out a letter (with a personal note to each person at the top) to all of her friends on FB asking for $2,100. She's about to declare bankruptcy and tells us that each month she is short about $500 on paying all of her bills. Yada, yada.

Now remember, it's not like I'm a good close friend. But still I feel guilty. I know I shouldn't, but I do. She wants a loan, but I don't loan money to friends...ever. If I have a friend or family member in need, I will give them the money with the stipulation that sometime during their life they must pay it forward. But I don't ever want them to pay me back, then there are no hard feelings.

I'm thinking about sending her $100 and telling her to pay it forward. But the other part of me worries that she has spent the last year avoiding responsiblity for her financial life. She obviously made it thru the difficult time, her daughters are grown and gone, she has a good job (secretary at a community center). So why can't she support herself? Would I be out of place to send her a book of Dave Ramsey's Total Money Makeover? Would that just make her mad? Do I even care if I make her mad? Or should I just ignore the entire thing? I don't want to support her stupid choices and I feel that is exactly what I would be doing. It's not like she got laid off, has kids to feed, has medical problems, etc.

So what would you do?

 

[eatmypixiedust]

Alison- Albort also has tons of glow fest stuff all over his house so that when the HSM crew shows up at his crib, they dance and party like crazy.

His pool is also filled with the tears of all the DIS members he hides from and ones who can never find him. J/k!

 

[eatmypixiedust]

Alison- that is a tough situation about your acquaintance. I think it's great that she got help for herself and left her abusive husband but I don't think it's right to ask people for money. It's just my opinion, but if you ask family it's one thing but if you are hitting up friends and even people you are not as close to or do not know well, then that's a bit odd to me. I'm not sure what to do either. I can see how you feel sympathetic towards her and her situation. I would feel the same. I just think if you feel it's okay to send her something to help her than great, but it's up to you. If it were me, I don't think I would send money but would politely say that if she needed anything else I could try to help.

Kelly- for liking Fringe! That is the best show It's so awesome and I really am eager to find out what happens next!! Poor Olivia needs to get out of that other realm!!

 

[staley7580]

So everybody's coming to my house huh? Wow, didn't realize I was the preferred vacation destination. Although I do have to say my house is sorta like an amusement park at times.

Wish you had 2 cars Megan, then you could just zip down with the kiddo's and spend the weekend. Bernice, you just keep working on those bus schedules. I have no doubt in my mind that you could find a way to get from MN to WA for under $5 using multiple transfers on every public transit system across the US.

I have decided that I'm going to get Megan and the kids camping with me sometime in the not so distant future. Trust me Megan you will love trailer camping. Hot showers, stereo, microwave, oven & stove, flush toilets, clean sheets on queen size bed, heated mattress pad cover, heat & air conditioning (not that we really ever need AC around here, but hey at least it's available). Heck, my new trailer even has hot & cold running water outside, so we can spray off dirty kidlets before letting them come inside.

I'm thinking I'll have DH go ahead and get the trailer set up at the beach lot. We can set up the huge canvas tent for the big kids (it has cots). I can have Chelsie come along to keep Julie company. I'm sure they will ditch us and head into town to ride go-karts, see a movie or whatever. Cooper & Alex will have a blast fishing and riding bikes (heck we would probably never see them. You and I can grab the big umbrella, pack a lunch and spend the day watching the little ones run around the beach. If DH sets everything up for us beforehand, then I can drive up and get you guys. Yeah, that would work!

That would be a BLAST!!! I would love it, and I know the kids would LOVE IT. Really. SHoot.. Im packing right now! Especially since he just learned to ride a two wheeler. Yes... 8yo and just learned. Worst part?? His friends taught him! I am guessing it went so well with them teaching him, and not us because he doesnt want to cry if he falls with them, but with us he whines and whines.

Wow, I guess I just never think about how difficult the child support situation must be. I knew there was an upside to just fighting and staying married to the same man for 21 years. After about 15 years we finally ran out of things to fight about, all of our issues had either been solved or one of us just got tired and gave up.

Oh and Hoarders, I LOVE that show! I've actually thought about volunteering for an organization that helps those people. I know it's a mental disease, but I figure if I spent a few months with them organizing, then my own mental disease, OCD, would rub off on them. Think about it, an organization that pairs together Hoarders with OCD people! Brilliant, kills 2 birds with one stone.

I know, huh?? Dh and I can never get divorced! He would just have to sign his whole check over to me! Plus he would hate to be away from the kids so much we would have to live together.. So really.. What would the point ever be?

Confession Time...I'm ashamed to admit it but I collect episodes of Hoarders. I tape them every single time they are on, I watch them over and over again. I have piles of them all over the house. My house used to be clean and now I have trails that go thru the stacks of Hoarders tapes.

We used to eat in the kitchen, but now the A&E Hoarders memorabilia that I order online has taken over the space somehow. I'm not really sure when it happened and I can't believe it has taken over my life. I think the real turning point was when the Girls Next Door broke up with Hef and I could no longer watch their episodes. I tried Kendra & Holly's World, but it just wasn't the same. Then along came Hoarders to replace that void in my life.

I'm embarassed and ashamed to admit this, but a couple of weeks ago I had to call 911 to extract me from my bedroom. I was literally trapped behind a stack of Hoarders tapes and couldn't get out. I live in fear every day that a huge pile of Hoarders tapes will fall on one of my children and smother them. I know that I could stop the cycle if only I could start collecting something else...something like cleaning supplies, garbage sacks and the phone number for the Salvation Army (cuz we all know it's going to take an entire army to help me stop hoarding the Hoarders!).

Megan, don't think you're immune. Don't think we haven't noticed that children collection you seem to have started! It all started out innocently enough, pop out one kid every few years. Then that wasn't enough, you had to start popping them out two at a time.

I KNOW!! I need to curb my addiction!

Now on a more serious note, I need some advice. Yesterday I receive a private message from an old high school friend on FB. She lives in the town I work in, I've chatted on FB with her the last year or so, but haven't met for lunch or anything. We were friends in school, but not like best buds or anything like that.

Anyway, she had an abusive husband and recently went thru a divorce last year. She has a job, but I think she basically left everything behind to get away from him. He threatened her, she had to take a leave from work for a few weeks and move into a women's shelter so he wouldn't know where she was.

She sent out a letter (with a personal note to each person at the top) to all of her friends on FB asking for $2,100. She's about to declare bankruptcy and tells us that each month she is short about $500 on paying all of her bills. Yada, yada.

Now remember, it's not like I'm a good close friend. But still I feel guilty. I know I shouldn't, but I do. She wants a loan, but I don't loan money to friends...ever. If I have a friend or family member in need, I will give them the money with the stipulation that sometime during their life they must pay it forward. But I don't ever want them to pay me back, then there are no hard feelings.

I'm thinking about sending her $100 and telling her to pay it forward. But the other part of me worries that she has spent the last year avoiding responsiblity for her financial life. She obviously made it thru the difficult time, her daughters are grown and gone, she has a good job (secretary at a community center). So why can't she support herself? Would I be out of place to send her a book of Dave Ramsey's Total Money Makeover? Would that just make her mad? Do I even care if I make her mad? Or should I just ignore the entire thing? I don't want to support her stupid choices and I feel that is exactly what I would be doing. It's not like she got laid off, has kids to feed, has medical problems, etc.

So what would you do?

What would I do?? I would hit delete and ignore the whole thing. I mean really.. How ballsy?? We are DEAD BROKE. Hello?? Family of seven living off one tiny income! Plus various teeny amounts of child supprt.. But still. Can you imagine if I went to one of you asking for money?? I think NOT! Can you say TACKY??? No flipping way would I give some chick money like that. Plus if you are just one person, I mean really.. How hard is it to support one person?

 

[sameyeyam]

Thanks for the advice Pix. I was kind of leaning towards not sending her anything, but I guess the guilt factor was weighing on me. I think she's just getting desperate at this point. Because it really kind of shocked me that she asked. Reading her letter I think she was really embarrased to even ask.

I have a few friends from high school that I probably would give money too. But I think not really knowing her that well anymore & not having been bff's just kind of bother's me. It definitely makes me not even want to get on FB or to unfriend her. Of course if I did that, I would probably run into her at a local store next week. That would just be my luck.

 

[sameyeyam]

That would be a BLAST!!! I would love it, and I know the kids would LOVE IT. Really. SHoot.. Im packing right now! Especially since he just learned to ride a two wheeler. Yes... 8yo and just learned. Worst part?? His friends taught him! I am guessing it went so well with them teaching him, and not us because he doesnt want to cry if he falls with them, but with us he whines and whines.

I know, huh?? Dh and I can never get divorced! He would just have to sign his whole check over to me! Plus he would hate to be away from the kids so much we would have to live together.. So really.. What would the point ever be?



I KNOW!! I need to curb my addiction!


What would I do?? I would hit delete and ignore the whole thing. I mean really.. How ballsy?? We are DEAD BROKE. Hello?? Family of seven living off one tiny income! Plus various teeny amounts of child supprt.. But still. Can you imagine if I went to one of you asking for money?? I think NOT! Can you say TACKY??? No flipping way would I give some chick money like that. Plus if you are just one person, I mean really.. How hard is it to support one person?

I'll see if I can get us a trip to the beach worked out. Now all we need to do is have Mother Nature cooperate, cuz there's no way I'm spending an entire rainy weekend packed into a 25 x 8' sardine can with 7 kids!

Thanks for the advice. I'm feeling better about ignoring the request now.

 

[staley7580]

I'll see if I can get us a trip to the beach worked out. Now all we need to do is have Mother Nature cooperate, cuz there's no way I'm spending an entire weekend packed into a 25 x 8' sardine can with 7 kids!

I KNOW!! This rain so early in the season is really bumming me out! My kids cant even go play out side and they are making me CRAZY!! I have barely seen the biggers all summer, now they are underfoot every day after school! Which freaks out the babies, and makes everyone co clingy. I get a monster headache around 3pm every day. Its called the JulieAlexKayleeJazzyVinnyDaddy meltdown.

 

[sameyeyam]

I KNOW!! This rain so early in the season is really bumming me out! My kids cant even go play out side and they are making me CRAZY!! I have barely seen the biggers all summer, now they are underfoot every day after school! Which freaks out the babies, and makes everyone co clingy. I get a monster headache around 3pm every day. Its called the JulieAlexKayleeJazzyVinnyDaddy meltdown.

You know how to get them to not bother you after school? Everytime they get near you, give them a chore to do...unload the dishwasher, peel potatoes, take out garbage, put laundry away, sweep, vacuum...they'll avoid you like the plague!

I come home every night and my house clears out, seriously, they run outside, in their bedroom, out to the garage. They know I will put them to work helping with dinner and chores, so they disappear. If one of them accidentally comes within my line of sight I holler out "hey can you..." and they quickly turn away and pretend they don't hear me.

My plan works perfectly, I get to prepare dinner without interruptions and have 30 minutes of silence.

 

[staley7580]

I WISH that would work here. My kids LOVE to help me. Cook, clean, everything. I get them to clean the living room by telling them that if they clean it up... they get to vacuum. Then they fight over the vacuum. AND I just taught Alex to clean the kitchen, which he loves doing. and cooking?? They are all over me. I wanna do this, I wanna do that! Its nuts! What kid wants to do this stuff????