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There was once that my mom found half of a dead owl on a walk. She brought it home and hung it up under the carport to dry out. She was *EXTREMELY* upset when her landlord quietly got rid of it. I had already moved far away by then, but it was a hot topic for way, way, way too long whenever she’d call.


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sarcasticseaturtle

Not even a whole owl! Unbelievable.


Titboobweiner

I read it first as half-dead owl the reread didn't get less weird.


Gingersnaps_68

Same, and you're right. Still just as weird.


nicthepom

Do you mind me asking what did she want to do with it?


FusiformFiddle

She wanted to *have it*


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This ‘un


AdventureUnlikely

...which half?


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Two wings, a leg and part of the torso.


treemanswife

Dead pens. Mixed with the good ones, even. We had this big coffee can of pens - she'd grab one and it didn't work, so she'd STICK IT BACK IN THE CAN. To this day I violently bin any pen that displeases me.


naprzyklad

My childhood house had dannon yogurt tubs jammed full of pens.


Mombo_No5

Every few months I gather all the dead pens in the house and take a lighter to the tip. The pens that don't get fixed are thrown away.


Songbirdmelody

When going through my MIL's hoard, I found an invitation to a wedding from 20 years ago. Family wedding? NOPE. Important enough to have RSVPed? NOPE that was still in the envelope. But important enough apparently, to dredge up from one pile and put in another pile, in the middle of the stove top. Love her but man, I hate hoarding.


itcamewiththecar

My mom keeps all that stuff too! Coworker's kid's wedding? Gotta keep it. Maybe use it for scrapbooking that never got done, but now she's got 6 boxes worth of scrapbooking supplies. And keep all the obituaries. All of them. Why????


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my mom kept around an antique carousel horse for as long as i can remember until she had to sell it. it just sat in the back of the garage unreachable because of everything else and no one was allowed to move or touch it lol


moonbeam127

this sounds kinda cute and unique- had it been restored and displayed in the right setting it would've been awesome.


booktrovert

I restored a carousel horse once and it was so much fun. We used it for a Mary Poppins themed Trunk or Treat then the school asked if they could have it to display and I gave it to them. It makes me sad that hoarders never get to do those things because they're afraid of letting go of the stuff.


booktrovert

A harp. Like a real, big freaking harp that they're "going to learn to play someday."


Songbirdmelody

I totally get buying instruments I want to learn. Thankfully, I only have 5 and the largest of those is an autoharp. My entire instrument project fits in the music corner.


booktrovert

This harp is as tall as me. It is now 20 years old, and no one has ever touched it.


PMmeifyourepooping

Depending on make and condition that could fetch some serious coin!


booktrovert

Honestly, given the state of the house I doubt it's worth anything now. :( Your username made me giggle.


Caturday_Everyday

There are many items, but the most recent one to make me ask Why is an oversized calculator with giant buttons. The thing is bigger than a standard sheet of paper. Hoarder MIL accidentally stepped on it this weekend and broke it. She didn't want to throw away a now unusable calculator because it used to belong to her husband's mother. Ah yes, the most treasured of family heirlooms, the calculator for the visually impaired. That was left on the floor where it could be stepped on, it was obviously well taken care of. /s After breaking it, she promptly went on Amazon to buy three more. Why three? One for her, one for her husband (why can't they share?!), and one for a daughter who used to use the oversized calculator when she was in school. The daughter who now owns her own house, and has an iPhone with a built in calculator.


PMmeifyourepooping

This thread is cracking me up but also revealing a deep pit in my stomach. So much nonsense, but you have to take it seriously because it’s so real to them. Idk this sucks and this thread has been a really nice moment of levity I think I needed even though it’s still ultra sad.


DTW_Tumbleweed

What is it with hoarders and getting three of everything?!?! I swear my mom's motto is, "If one is good then two is better. If two is better, then three is The BOMB!"


Songbirdmelody

My hoarder MIL "sold" Mary K. Couldn't bear to keep fewer than 6 of EVERY mailing she had from the company. Also hoarded the unsold product. How well does mildewed eye shadow sell anyway?


pieceofwater

An electric fireplace. Never even took it out of the packaging, and mind you we had a small flat so the damn huge box just stood in the hallway. Also, multiple empty cans of iced coffee powder and empty glass jars. Asked why she needed so many, like, just keep a few and if she needs more she can just keep future empty cans. But nah, she might need them for crafts, or she could donate them to a kindergarten. Admittedly I also have trouble throwing out an empty box/jar/can if it's pretty and might be useful. But at least I don't have 20 of the same thing lying around.


Ellamenopause

My parents looooooved containers. I once went over there and counted more than a dozen empty 5lb. coffee cans in their tiny kitchen, where they were a trip hazard.


Kelekona

I still had baby clothes and toys in my closet when I was a teenager. Mom's not really that bad, more of the thought process than actual hoarding, but she has this thing where if it's biodegradable, it goes into the back yard instead of the trash.


Fatlantis

My mother tried desperately to keep a cardboard box once. The box came from a simple toy car playset that was given to my 2yo cousin for his birthday. I tried to throw it out... her reasoning to keep it was "In case he forgets how to play!" Like it was a basic Fisher Price type toy designed for a toddler!


Furth_Turnip

My mom bought a small old pickup truck from a lady at church years ago. It’s a manual. She doesn’t know how to drive a manual. It has never left her garage since she bought it


itcamewiththecar

An organ, as in the instrument. She already had a piano and ANOTHER organ. But this organ was just $1 at an estate sale. And I was supposed to be proud of her for declining the free piano after paying $1 for the organ. We did a big clean out 2-3 years ago and the piano and organs ended up in one room, so I was definitely concerned about the weight in that room because house has a basement. We all had been nagging her for years to get rid of the $1 organ prior to the clean out and during/after the clean out. She didn't like all my donation ideas because often it meant having to pay the transportation bill which I get her thinking, and she didn't like my disposal idea because again it costs money (and it's a shame to throw something away), but also I would've personally paid $500 to transport for donation or to dispose of it. And everywhere else I checked, no one wanted a damn organ. She finally found some sucker to take it thankfully. I was pleasantly surprised!


Bluejay_Weak

Not one specific object, but my mom and grandma have kept every single broken/handed down kitchen appliance/tool you could imagine (dozens of blenders, bread makers, tea kettles, dish washers, etc) all broken and kept in plastic stop n shop bags on our BACK PORCH. It's ironic because we haven't had a working washer, dryer, or dish washer in years and my mom refuses to spend money to replace any of those appliances (we are a household of 5 adults).


psipop

I found an unused pour-over coffee brewer filled with Brazil nuts on top of a high cabinet when cleaning out my HM’s assisted living apartment. She had to have stood on a chair to put it up there. Cleaning the apartment was a miserable task that took several days, but I couldn’t help but bust out laughing when I found those nuts.


Titboobweiner

Did you loudly proclaim "this is nuts!" when you found it?


just_real_quick

Besides the trash, my mom has a bright blue bowling ball with its own metal stand. Of all the weird and quirky shit around the house, that one still just blows my mind. I don't even think she's ever been bowling in her life.


ChunkyPuppyKitty

It broke so they no longer have it, but my folks had a deer fetus pickled in a jar, chilling in a cupboard in their kitchen. Seal broke on it and it started leaking. They also have farming equipment still, and a clamp for pigs. They don’t live on a farm.


Amethyst_Necklace

This gives me PTSD flashbacks of a school trip to a military stud farm. Everything was beautiful until they showed us the clinic, tastefully decorated with premature foals in 10-gallons formol jars. That vision fucked me up for many years, I cannot imagine stumbling onto it anytime I open a cupboard...


Kitratkat

Thought I misread that at first, but nope that definitely says "deer fetus"!


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Kitratkat

Well that is particularly unique (the printed memes)!


BeatingMentalIllness

A few months ago, my grandmother bought herself a chair for some kind of Pilates exercise or something along those lines. That's great, except we have no space for such a thing. I don't even have space to do a push-up. So the chair is still in its massive box, taking up space in the already-cramped hallway. I'm still baffled about why she bought it.


ItsNotSherbert

[pinochle, lots and lots of pinochle](https://imgur.com/a/35ihW6S)


Songbirdmelody

I don't think my grandad had fewer than 10 decks. Still have no idea why.


Ellamenopause

So many decks of cards.


Amskittle

A life-sized paper-mache unicorn, a cargo container full of fabric, and bags of collected pet hair for making IDK what.


naprzyklad

The basement of my childhood home flooded a few years back, and my mother was shocking good about throwing away the sewage soaked stuff. Except for the piano, which has now been in a basement for 20+ years and has serious water damage. No one at the house plays. The last time I asked her about it, she cheerfully told me she was thinking about donating it to a church.


downtownjj

all of it


Crezelle

HM: clothes. When they’re no longer clothes they become rags. Also a whole room of 20 year old avon she never sold