3. LPT - If an older relative or friend tries to give you their old stuff, just tak...

LPT - If an older relative or friend tries to give you their old stuff, just take it and say thank you - even if you don’t want it! It can be hard for them to throw away things from their lives, and you are doing them a favor by helping them downsize.

Thanks. The harsh, hateful, angry responses don’t actually get me down all that much. I posted the LPT because I didn’t always think this way, and I knew that most people must not. My mother died in 2012. She had a massive old sci fi/fantasy book collection, and she always wanted me to take books with me when I visited. I always said “no.” And why? I don’t even really know. Because I didn’t want to clutter my small apartment with old paperback books? Looking back, that’s just pathetic. I could’ve taken them straight to Goodwill or the library and she’d have never known, and it would have made her so happy. Now I don’t have any chances to make her happy because she’s gone, and I’m sorry for every wasted opportunity. And of course, after she died I ended up having to deal with her book collection anyways.

So when I see responses here saying things like, “no, it’s not my responsibility to take other people’s trash,” I mostly just feel pity. How lazy, selfish, and ignorant would a person have to be to have that angry reaction? Well… exactly as lazy, selfish, and ignorant as I was once. Which is very, sefish, ignorant, and lazy.

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