Decided our kitchen needed a refresh.
So I shopped around our house
to add just some treenware items in here.
Started with the table.
Potato mashers inside a piggin pail.
Cheese ladder and butter molds around.
More wood inside the pine cabinet.
Pantry boxes, butter molds,
bowls, potato mashers and spoons.
Firkin and grain measure on top.
Along with dough box, trencher,
candy mold and latest butter stamp.
View of our table and chairs looking into
our living room/ hall.
The table is a settle bench.
The chairs are even antique.
For their age, these are still sturdy.
Our bench seats two so we can have
6 folks sit here.
So what is treenware?
It is was any household utensil which was
created entirely out of wood.
Woman in their day had to use wood
items for everything.
No plastic back then.
In other news,
my brother and I went to my mom's
to do more purging on Monday.
We spent 2 hours cleaning off just her love seat.
Not only on it, but behind it, underneath it,
plus around it on the floor.
Then we spent another 2 1/2 hours cleaning
out her closet.
We still need to go through all of the clothes
hanging in it....because we have found
money in so many different places....we need
to go through everything.
We got into the car for our drive home...
and felt like we accomplished nothing.
It is sad the things my mom had saved.
We found a full bag of powdered sugar
un-opened dated 2005.
Magazines underneath the seat cushions.
Little boxes with one item in each....
like one Lego brick, a few coins in another,
one matchbook in one and one puzzle piece
in another one just to name some.
We have to look inside everything.
We have been finding money everywhere.
The love seat area we found about $50,
while her closet we found $10.
No rhyme or reason why she put money
where she did.... and when we asked her,
she did not even remember doing it.
She had 3 banks, and a safe deposit box,
so not sure why she was
hiding money in her house.
All the money we find will go for her
personal things she needs monthly for her
incontinence issue, vitamins,
Boost, Gatorade, soda and anything else
she may want.
It is still her money...not ours.
It is just a sad situation that my brother and I
are dealing with.
We are taking my mom to her doctor
this morning for her monthly bloodwork.
After that brother and I will take her to
her house...my sister decided after her
episode with the aide not to take my mom
to her house...and we are glad of that.
Afterwards we plan on taking mom
to Olive Garden for lunch.
It use to be one of her favorite restaurants.
Well have to get ready for my brother to arrive.
Hope everyone enjoys their day.
It was cold again with flurries yesterday.
So sick of Winter.
Treen Blessings To All!
Janice
Good morning so sorry for all this but good that your brother is helping her. She must have had alzheimers before anyone realized it crazy weather everywhere we will be 92 F on saturday- and then drop to the 30's take care hugs
ReplyDeleteYes, you have to look at everything. Over 30 years of cleaning out estates, I can tell you, people hide money in the craziest places. On one occasssion, we found like $1,500. We called the daughter and told her to come to the house. It was in her sewing box...in an envelope...small bills...she did mending and alterations on the side. Some were very old bills. Anyway, we gave it to the daughter. Now, she said "here is something for finding this." You know, most people wouldn't have been so honest. When she said something about it, I said "that money is nothing in comparison to my eternity."
ReplyDeleteHope today is a good day with Mom.
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