Passive Aggressive (still)

Sunday is family dinner night.  Mom cooks, because thats what she prefers.  

I am here 5 days a week with her great grandson, MrZ.  She hasn't asked for anything to be done.  When I am here, if the garbage needs to go out, I just take it.  When recycle needs to go out, I do that too.  

So today, family dinner time, and when I pull up, there on the front porch is the weed killer jug.  I've been forgoing all my OWN chore to rest my sore knee, but she expects me to go out and do it??? 

Is that passive aggressive?  

Its irritating as all get out.  What's going to happen when I can't walk? Drive? 

Minimizing

Its obvious that my life isnt going to be what I imagined when I retired.  And as I was looking around, I spotted things that I truly don't need, just have a tad of memories.  And I thought I should get some boxes and get rid of stuff.  

But then I realized that my groceries come in bags, just use those! And I've been bagging things ever since.  Friday, I took a load of items to Goodwill:

98 DVDs, 89 CDs, 5 books, a few extra shirts, a roll of fabric and some pillow cases and a box of miscellaneous glassware.  One of them was a bottle that said Portugal on the bottom. It was dark green glass with a strange indentation. I bought it at a Junque Sale at church when I was about 14.  My guess is it was an old liquor bottle.  And other than just sitting on a shelf for all these years ... ??? 

There's still plenty more! But as I get older I realize that my daughter won't want to deal with stuff.  And neither will I if I need to move again.  Or when I move again!  

What is it that makes us hold on to things we dont really use?? Where does that come from? Maybe this new generation of disposable everything has a better handle on "stuff".