Some days you just can't win.....

[Wetpants]

My wife and I went over this last weekend to help a friend of hers, who's a nurse, clean up her mothers home for sale.  Her mother moved to assisted living and they had to sell

the house to fund her stay.  There were two other of her nurse friends there as well.

I was asked to come along to help move the heavy things and help repair some electrical work.

The house was a bit of a mess, since her mother had lived alone for about 10 years and her health had severely declined during the last 2 years.

The friend keep telling my wife...anything you see you like help yourself...less to move or sell at a yard sale.

We got a few things, but I the one thing we kept finding all over the house were "drugstore" incontinence pull on pants.  My wife knows of my DL interests but does not approve

and always keeps an eye on my response to diaper ads or when we are in drugstores.   I had no real interest in the crappy drugstore items.  But then we  all went into

the bedroom, me to move a TV, them to clean up and check out what needed to be done to clean things out. 

On a stand next to the bed was a clear plastic tote bin...pretty big in size with no top.  In one half of the bin were real cloth diapers!  Only two appeared

to have been prewashed and used....the rest of the stack of maybe a full dozen diapers was obviously pristine and unwashed or used.  The real shocker was the other

half of the bin which seemed to contain a fair number of plastic pants of all sorts....clear, pink, animal print...all neatly folded. 

When the nurses moved over to the bin, the daughter said, "Yeah, the briefs are pretty crappy so we tried the cloth diapers".  "They worked well, and didn't leak, but my mom couldn't get the pins right so she stopped using them.   What do you think I should do with them....just dump them?"  She was under the impression no one would want USED diapers.  One of the nurses said, "Give them to Goodwill, or call (our nearby eldercare center) and see if they want them."  The daughter said, "Yeah they weren't cheap....I'd hate to see them trashed, and they did work". 

I would have loved to have gotten them...but that was impossible with my wife there.  Had no idea what size there were, I did my best not to get close, so as not to annoy my wife.

I picked up the TV, took it out and put it in one of the cars, and then went to work in an outside shed sorting garden tools.

But I couldn't keep the mental picture out of my mind....it's been killing me.

Even worse, my wife took several large containers of baby powder since she liked the J&J Talc stuff which we can no long find in our area.  The car smelled like baby powder the whole way home.

 

 

[rusty pins]

Oh, what agony it must have been for you!  How far away was this house?  Maybe you could keep an eye on the local Goodwill to see if any of those diapers and plastic pants show up for sale.  True, it's not as good as "free", but I bet they wouldn't be priced very high!  What must your wife think if you did buy them and they turned up in your house, wife looking and saying, "There's something familiar about these......"

[Diapered Dave]

You could have volunteered to make a run to the local Goodwill donation site... Taking everything they wanted to donate, including the diapers.  Of course, your wife might have been suspicious.

My elderly mother had me take a bunch of boxes full of stuff to Goodwill a few months back. One box was a FULL case of Attends pull-ups, that were left over from when dad had prostate surgery. Needless to say, that box somehow didn't make it to the drop-off site. 

[OzarkMtn]

they probably would have been too small.  You always think about the one that got away.