Julie's Haircut
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Oct 2, 2015
Legally insane? No.
Mental illness? Probably not.
Crazy? Most definitely.
Mental illness? Probably not.
Crazy? Most definitely.
Both of my grandmothers saved little bits of food like that and never threw anything away. They were Depression Era Kids.Well, a grandpa that was married numerous times. The last 3 he got from ads in the newspaper. He was 82 when he met the last one.
One of his wives was a bit of a hoarder. When she moved in with him she used his camper to store stuff. We literally had to start at the door and remove stuff. It took a whole day before we could even step into the camper. She saved everything including opened food cans. She washed them and stored them in boxes.
An aunt that never threw any food whatsoever away. Her freezer was full of little spoonfuls of peas or potatoes or corn or whatever. Thaw the whole freezer full and it wasn’t enough to feed one person. Mom would just roll her eyes and add to the little hoard of food. She asked her if she was planning on feeding munchkins, Auntie just laughed and said “I guess so!”
A sister in law that refers to her times in a mental hospital as “being in the facility” with an accent close to Madea. But thank God she can smile about it and know she is better.
And my loving brother that can’t seem to accept that he is 66 and I am 55. He seems to think I am still 15. And talks to me like I am. We don’t talk much.
Both of my grandmothers saved little bits of food like that and never threw anything away. They were Depression Era Kids.
Food has a tremendous emotional hold over people and effects them in different ways. Lots of quirky behaviour is related to food but if you drill down far enough there's usually an explanation rooted in past experiences.The odd thing was, there were 5 sisters and 3 brothers, all grew up just as poor. Most went through more hard times when they were adults too. This Aunt was the only one who did this. The other sisters would be just itching to get in her freezer and throw it away. When she died the freezer still had all those little bits and pieces of food. Literally spoonfuls. She never used one spoonful of it.
Two of her kids, we saw at a family birthday thing yesterday and of course we were all reminiscing about our Moms together (only one Aunt is still living). One of her dil’s said her husband will not eat nor does he want her to keep leftovers. At all. And certainly not in the freezer. When she wants to keep something for her lunch the next day, she goes ahead and packs some in a container for her lunch or if she just covers the whole thing and puts it away, he will go behind her and throw it away. He seems like he is so worried about doing what his mom did he goes too far the other way.
Food has a tremendous emotional hold over people and effects them in different ways. Lots of quirky behaviour is related to food but if you drill down far enough there's usually an explanation rooted in past experiences.