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I just shipped two boxes to you via UPS. They will arrive on Wednesday. We threw out or donated the rest of what you left. Aunt M****** has moved in now, and she's so happy to have the space. Hope you have a great day!
So yea, what a way to wake up...
Apparently there was this huge breakdown in communication. My dad and step mom thought they'd told me they needed me to clear out the space, but they didn't double-check and make sure I knew. And when I visited my dad for his b-day I did remove some stuff. I grabbed the Halloween things and decided to grab some more stuff and consolidate whatever else I left so it wouldn't be as in the way. Shoved everything I wanted to come back for in a corner shelf and told my dad, and told him anything else not in that corner he could do whatever with.
The, "Keep this stuff over here," part apparently wasn't understood...
I was even up there earlier in January, and they didn't say anything. Otherwise I'd have taken the stuff with me then. The whole reason I left that stuff is cause there's no room for it here. My parents have been divorced for a long time, so I had two rooms of things. It's always been crowded here and making two rooms into one would have been impossible unless I wanted to live stuffed in with no space to sneeze without knocking something over. I was scared to lose or break something. But if it came down to me needing to get that stuff out I'd have figured something out.
The two boxes my step mom said she sent? Got them today. Know what was in them? Crap. Nothing. But. Crap.
I could understand a breakdown in communication and her tossing my stuff, but what she sent me in the box? Feels like a total insult.
Like I like oriental-style stuff. I know for a fact I had a couple vases like that, some chopsticks, a bento box, a little glass case with wood decorations in it. I know I had a little porcelain box that was a b-day gift from my aunt, a couple figurines I'd collected or were gifts, other little odds and ends.
Know what I got?
A couple towels (wtf do I need towels for?), coats and shirts (um, I have a lot of those already...), a disco-ball repair kit thing (seriously?), string lights and a desk lamp (uuuuuummm?), and a saxophone Santa (srsly... w.t.f?!)....
The only things I kept were a Galileo thermometer, an old piggy bank my gran had given me, a mask my mom got for me from Hawaii, and a couple coats/robes that were oriental-style and that were the only things my step mom had asked me about.
When I compacted all that, it only took up half the space in the smaller of the two boxes....
So not only did my step mom waste box space with complete crap when she could have sent stuff more precious to me, she wasted her own money sending it. I mean she's been married to my dad for over ten years and doesn't even have a hint of the stuff I'm interested in? I'm just beyond pissed that she threw away all the stuff I'd have kept and sent me total s**t.
And how can anyone so stuck up on manners as her lack the common courtesy to double-check with me before she threw out or donated my stuff? It's just thoughtless, insensitive, and rude!
