Saturday, April 4, 2009

Senile..of just plain crafty?

Here's another story about my mom, I know you guys love those. Today I was mopping and it's close quarters in here, so I opened the door and sat a small table, a footstool and a plant stand outside on the patio thingy. I mopped and sat down at the comp to read comments and have some coffee. When the floor dried, I opened my door and the furniture was gone. Just gone!
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I went over to Mom's and there it was. I said wtf? She told me "Well, I thought you were throwing it out." I said, do you actually want or need this stuff, because if you do, I guess you can have it. She said, no, she was going to sell it in her next yard sale. She says I'm wasteful and she makes money off my trash. Sigh. I reached in my pocket and I had $2 dollars. I handed it to her and said, here, I'll save you some trouble. I was laughing. She took my two dollars and said "That table is worth more than two bucks, that's an antique." I said, yeah, but, I'm family...and took my table home. She got to keep the footstool and crappy plant stand.

23 comments:

Dirty Disher said...

Th best part is..I pulled that table out of her burn pile in the backyard 25 years ago and refinished it. When my brother saw it, he said "You can't steal our trash, you have to pay $5 dollars for that." So now this table has cost me $7 dollars. My family is so crazy.

Anonymous said...

nice looking table!!!

did you get Poli's pix that i resent last week!!

Anonymous said...

Crafty? Felony is more like it.

My family is the same way. My father is 81 and he likes to go to estate auctions and he buys all this stuff that used to belong to his dead friends.

"See this chain saw? I remember back in '58 when we used it cut down the neighbor's tree when it dropped them leaves on my yard."

"I got this box of flannel shirts from Delmer's sale. They'll be good for washin' my truck and I can cut 'em up use 'em to plug up the gas tank on that mower I got from Louie's sale that's got that cap that went missin'."

Dirty Disher said...

Miss Tia, I looked in my inbox AND the junk file. I have no idea why your email isn't there. Try this addy pagan@mchsi.com

Dirty Disher said...

LMAO, 3 Farmers..I know! That stuff drives me nuts. But, my Mom will do this kind of $2 dollar stuff, then turn around and buy me a new car I didn't ask for...but, needed. The other day she told me that she left me her property in her will and I thought..OMG NOOOOOOOOOOO! LOL, ahh well.

Dirty Disher said...

PS, maybe I can bulldoze it and sell the lot. Heh. She'll probably out live me.

Anonymous said...

okay, i'll re-forward them to that addy!!! i think she is double the size she was 2 weeks ago!!! :D

Dirty Disher said...

I got them Tia! OMG that puppy is adorable!

Anonymous said...

hooray for getting them!!! :)

her and pan make a nice pair!

Anonymous said...

I LOVE that table!! I'd of given her $20.00 for it.....

Anonymous said...

ThreeFarmers
I read that and it reminded me of my father. rofl Is this what we have to look forward to someday??? It sort of scares me...

Dirty Disher said...

I hope not, but, probably. I'd better go get some more cats and pickle jars.

Anonymous said...

crazy old people ah well gotya laugh perhaps we will turn into them one of these days if we live long enough

Anonymous said...

Love that table! Well worth the 7 bucks paid out over 25 years lol.

tish said...

just love your mom, she sounds like she is a barrel of laughs!

Anonymous said...

Your mom must be related to me! She sounds just like my grandma. After my grandpa died my husband wanted to borrow her block & tackle (a chain hoist used to pull engines), he wanted to work on an old pick up or something. Anyways, she told him "no, I am going to be using that pretty soon". LOL!! Riight grandma, you sure are gonna be pulling a motor! She maybe weighed 100 pounds. Old people just kill me. But we love 'em...they are us in 20 years!

Anonymous said...

hilarity ensues

Anonymous said...

I like how she bartered with you over how much it was actually worth. My stepmom's mother went into stepmom's attic and stole her crystal punch bowls she got as a wedding present and sold them in an antique store. Luckily my stepmom saw them and bought them back. (A new door lock would have been cheaper.)

Anonymous said...

LOL .. that's so funny. Your mom was curbshoppin at your house ... hilarious!

Dirty Disher said...

Curb shoppin' day is Tuesday here. Oh, believe me, she knows that! Ha.

Anonymous said...

Love that table, looks to be possibly victorian. Wish it were mine.

Dirty Disher said...

I'll go look in the burn pile, see if there's another one. :)

Anonymous said...

Too funny. Your mom sounds like she's a real character like you DD ... you always manage to crack me up lol