• foodandart@lemmy.zip
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    11 days ago

    The house was the MIL’s family.

    There was an aunt living in it after FIL died, and so mother in law moved in with her sister.

    Aunt died, leaving mother in law as sole occupant, and she was there for a few more years on her own until she got too sick.

    She took out the mortgages on the family house after she got ownership, to strike down the remains of FIL’s bills and clear the debts from the prior household.

    Was just a shitshow all around. The one thing that was fun was crawling through the rafters of the house to pull out the family heirlooms.

    We got the classic Singer 66 “redeye” treadle sewing machine with the 7 drawer “coffin case” and all the feet attachments. It’s an absolute dream to use.

    Everything else was tarred and nicotined to death as they were all smokers and the house reeked. NGL, whoever bought that from HUD had a ton of cleaning the cigarette residue off of everything, on their hands.