Her mail comes to my house now
I thought that would mean I get the bills
Apparently the junk mail is included
She didn’t think it was junk mail though. She loved her catalogs.
When I went to see her – or anyone who came through the door, the first task before entering the house was checking the mail.
The mailbox is across the street so she was afraid to go in case she had a seizure or fell. God forbid she take her walker.
On my way in with the pile I often just stopped at the recycling bin and tossed her junk mail in to keep her from spending too much on the strawberry fairies (for me because I have a strawberry theme), the colorful skirts with watercolor pencils (for my daughter the artist) or for any number of household amazing items you can’t possibly imagine.
Sometimes she placed orders on the phone then made one of the grandkids go get money orders to pay for it so I wouldn’t know.
Only I did.
Sometimes she said “go on that button pushing thing and order these,” meaning go online. Whoever got the shotgun shaped plungers for their toilets, I’m sorry.
Then all the requests for donations. Oh my goodness. She would put the requests for money to Israel, starving children, paralyzed veterans and homeless. I would tell her she is going to be starving and homeless if she sent money to all those people.
God sees her heart. He knows she is more generous than what he has blessed her with. She always told him (me, everyone) she just needed more money. There’s so much to buy! I just wanna be rich.
They say money can’t buy happiness but I’m pretty sure she would have been happy being rich and buying everything in those catalogs and giving thousands to those charities.
I gave up telling her to stop buying junk for us. It made her happy. I paid her bills. It’s only money. Every now and then I let her donate.
So the junk mail has been trickling in over the past three months. Then yesterday ..
Oh my. So hard to resist those free shipping offers. The sales. The abundance.
Recycled.
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I can never seem to resist the coupons 🤦🏻♀️
I used to feel like my grandparents were being taken advantahe if with all the donation requests. But in the end it made them happy i guess
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If you want to stop getting junk mail, I would suggest moving everything online. I very rarely get any mail since I do everything online and bills are emailed to me or they are on my account.
Shotgun shaped toilet plungers..lol really fun read! I recall my grandparents having an enormous amount of catalogs like these, and the Sears catalog was always an event when it arrived lol Thanks for sharing 🙂
This was the way of the past for sure and can be quite funny to see now! Kind of amazes me how much paper they still waste on all this stuff.
I really enjoyed reading this! It’s a good thing that she hasn’t gotten on the ‘button pushing thing’ on her own! Junk emails are worse these days that I almost welcome getting a catalog in the mail instead! Thanks for sharing a great story!
Shotgun shaped plungers sound…interesting ha.
You are such a good person 🙌 👏 with a huge heart ❤️
How fun!!! I still love catalogues and live when I get them.
I drive my mom crazy because I throw out all the junk mail before I had everyone their mail. She loves to look through the catalogs. So, sometimes I just give her a pile and she spends hours looking through.
Oh junk mail. Drives me nuts how much of that I get. Like….kind of a waste of paper!
If I could go entirely paperless, I would do it in a heartbeat! But the junk mail would still come.
It’s probably a good thing she never discovered QVC! I loved reading this for the memory – it’s more than just the ‘junk mail’ for me. What a beautiful heart she has and every time you get the junk mail, what happens? You think of her!
Those catalogs were all over my grandparents house! Fun to look through though!
I don’t have the patience for junk mail, sadly. My grandmother would be just like this, though ~ the sweetheart that she was. I love the way you told this story. Very captivating and heartwarming.