Hoarding

Grandma became a hoarder. (I think Grandpa collected junk too.) In later years, she became worse and worse. She never wanted to get rid of anything. At first it was just clothes, newspapers, and magazines. But, then she started collecting McDonald's coffee cups and the cardboard tubes that hold your toilet paper. Why she would save these things is beyong my comprehension. I think that hoarding is a strange sickness. I used to just throw the stuff away when I went there.

She also hoarded food. We even found McDonald's French Fries in her freezer one time. After the holidays, she would take home everything that she could, but she rarley ever ate it.

We found a whole box of condiments in her cabinet while cleaning out her house. I can't even imagine how old some of those were.

Speaking of old! One time Mr. Mellett stopped by to visit with my Dad and Grandma and my Dad gave him a Coke, and it was about 10 years old! Mr. Mellett even asked if he could take it home to show Mrs. Mellett because he couldn't believe it. Therefore, whenever I went to her house, I always came with my own Diet Coke from McDonald's.