Cleanup After the Storm: Hurricane Emma
posted on 20 December 2011 | posted in
Construction and Industrial
My elderly Aunt Emma owned two houses when she went into the nursing home. She lived in one and she and my uncle used to rent the other one out years ago. When they quit renting it out, my uncle started calling it my aunt's "play house". Actually, it was just somewhere for her to store all of the "stuff" she hoarded, which was easy because the two houses sit side by side. My uncle died about ten years before my aunt went to the nursing home, and we always said that we dreaded cleaning it out when the time came. Well, that time came, and it was the biggest clean up I have ever been involved in - bigger than my tank cleaning days. We had sale after sale just to get rid of the stacks of unused material. some of it with receipts still pinned to it from the 1950's and 60's. There were multiple boxes of yarn, Styrofoam balls of all sizes, tons of felt, clothes pins and gift bows galore. There were gift boxes with brand new clothing, salt and pepper shakers, almost anything you can think of. We cleaned out boxes and boxes of empty, cleaned out to-go trays from restaurants and literally hundreds of the plastic eggs they sell pantyhose in. There was one whole room that was filled with Christmas items and crafts. It took us the better part of one whole summer to go through everything and decide whether to sell it, keep it or get rid of it, but we finally finished. It was good to finish it looked so good! After that experience, I have been going through all of my "stuff" because I never want my kids to have to go through that!
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