My Daughter the Packrat

[jeriendhal]

I love my daughter, that's why I'm not killing her over this...

Georgia is, if not genetically related to me, at the very least close in attitude. We're both packrats. I hate getting rid of stuff. It wasn't until my parents started talking about moving out of their old house that I finally got rid of papers I'd had since kindergarten up in boxes in their attic. I still have comics I collected in my teens, from Marvel's New Universe which aren't even worth the paper they're printed on.

Georgia, if she has a box, a bag, or a purse, will put things in it to store. Toys, books, Legos, interesting rocks. Even she has no intention of playing with it. Even if it's something we nearly threaten her with bodily harm over for grabbing without permission (ie: cheeze from the fridge, or a stack of Sims 2 discs.).

This time around however, she managed to grab five coupon books that came home from Tom's school for a fundraising drive. Admittedly it's our fault for leaving them in reach, but she can't remember where she put them and if we can't find them in a week we're going to be out $100 because we'll have to pay for them ourselves.

Argh.

Comments

[mjkj.livejournal.com]

Ah... *comforts*

Well, here hopes you will find them before that...

mjkj

[aynne-witch.livejournal.com]

We will hope she doesn't start collecting boys in high school and just stuffing them in her locker for later ;)

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

Blinks. That's either the ending for a horror story or the start of a really wierd piece of pr0n.

[lilfluff.livejournal.com]

Heh. Could be worse. Once in grade school I forgot to take a sack lunch to school, so I stuck it in a dresser drawer and promptly forgot about it... My mother was not amused when she found it a week or so later.

[jvowles.livejournal.com]

Just a thought:

Her entire formative life before you guys was in an orphanage where she learned by observing the older kids, who learned the hard way to grab what they could get or go without. Kids who have long had nothing are instinctively drawn to hold onto whatever they can.

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

I know that's part of it. Doesn't make it any less frustrating in situations like this though. :(

[evilpassion8.livejournal.com]

As the parent of a 'Katrina kid' who badasher will assure you has the same tendencies, i totally aggree with both you AND jvowles.......