Every significant other comes into a relationship with baggage and small idiosyncrasies. Those are some of the characteristics that help define a person.
True love means embracing all of that.
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Of course some significant others come with actual baggage. They'll bring along nostalgic items, furniture they can't part with but also clashes with everything in the house or tattered, filthy clothes that have apparently seen them through the best and worst of times.
Those are the elements of compromise that keeps you up at night, driving one mad. Trying to concoct a nefarious plan on how to burn those items without leaving behind an ember.
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Redditor, LeCharlesMuhDickens posed the question,"What item belonging to your SO would you throw away if you could get away with it, and why? " And the responses were awesome!
These boots were made for... drowning?
Her favorite pair of leather boots. Theyre so worn down that she cant wear them anywhere near water. I understand why she wants to keep them but its so frustrating when she puts them on only to complain 10 minutes later about her feet being wet. shradicalwyo
Ostriches are sassy.
My boyfriends canvas picture of an ostrich with "prepare your anus" written on it -_- halfbloodswede
Have we learned nothing form those 'Chucky' movies?
She has a collection of plastic dolls (don't remember the namez but they're basically barbies that represent characters from horror movies), dozens of them. She buys them from flee markets, erases their faces with acetone, paints new faces, cuts their limbs and modifies them, glues them back together. I don't know which ones are scariest: the blank faces, the amputated, or the finished ones. They terrify me. J1nx_
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Someone is ready for A & E.
Her mountain of magazines she's saving for some future reference, because that's how hoarding starts. Scrappy_Larue
After 20 years, let it die friend!
If my wife had answered, it would be this for sure: I have this creepy figurine of a bald, black pirate with a monkey on his shoulder that my best friend gave me as a goofy joke for Christmas. I've had it for over 20 years and insist upon it having a somewhat prominent display in our house. I'm in the military, so we move a lot. Every time it gets unpacked, she gives me this annoyed, pleading look, hoping this is the move where it dies. It's not. JBleezy1979
Well are we talking about Nic Cage circa, 'Con-Air' or 'Adaptation'?
I have a silk pillow case of a shirtless Nicolas Cage that my SO secretly hates. I know he hides it on purpose and have found it deep in his closet (several times). When i confront him ,he always denies it but always finished with a " why do you want that anyways? Its ugly" so I know its him. Im currently looking for it once again. entroyfan2
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Then there is crime of omission. A smart move. ;)
My SO used to have a bunch of giant blown up stills from his favorite movies all over his place. First thing you'd see upon entering was from Dumb and Dumber. Close the door to the bathroom and this really creepy one from Caddy Shack is hiding there waiting for you. Constantly startled me.
I didn't do it but I was secretly pretty pleased when they got destroyed in the move. I saw him loading them up poorly but said nothing. I don't regret a thing. duckyblinders
If $20 is all it takes, you made need some serious self-evaluation.
His stupid t-shirt that says "I'm not gay but $20 is $20". Whomadethebed
His what? Is that a thing?
His nose flute. He thinks I did already but I really don't know where it went and will not be looking for it. imnotabotoraboat
Creative types are never understood.
His socks that have the days of the week on them because he wears them on the wrong day and it really winds me up. demnugs13
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Sometimes the well is never empty.
His bucket hats. I've hidden many of them from him, but he seems to have an unlimited supply. JustTseYes
But... what if?
Old cookie sheets with rust on them. I bought new cookie sheets. Can I throw out the old ones, I asked? No, because we can still use them with aluminum foil on them. Smelly old pillows, I bought new ones, have to save the old ones in the closet for the pending apocolyptic winter that will happen when our power grid gets knocked out by an EMP. I bought him new underwear and we went several rounds over saving the ones whose elastic was shot, still have them. Same goes for any other replacement household items. I'm a minimalist who has moved once on a train and once in a single trip in my car, and this is killing me. elevatorbloodbath
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Grandma always knows best.
My grandfather was like this. My grandmother dealt with it by filling a garbage bag with stuff to get rid of while Grandpa was at work. Then she would take the garbage bag with her when she went grocery shopping, and leave it in a public trash can. Then she feigned ignorance when he asked about it.
Oh, pro tip- instead of openly buying new underwear, just buy underwear that looks just like pre-existing underwear and "refresh" it from time to time. (Thanks Grandma!) _Green_Kyanite_
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Now there is a valid thought.
Does his mother count here? Graceful20
Tell her the numbers don't add up.
This old high school hoody she wears around the house. She says it's hers, but it's a grade year ahead of her. I know it's her first boyfriends. It doesn't bother me that much, other than the fact I know it's not her hoody. If she just was honest, I wouldn't care at all. Imthecoolestdudeever
Somethings are cute and some... are just creepy.
She has a wireless hair remover that pulls the hair out (I have forgotten what they are called?). She always sneak attacks me while I sleep and Im missing patches of hair off my legs and back! lbakk1
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Didn't he ever watch 'IT'? Oh hell no.
This clown drawing he did in middle school that is just so creepy doesn't help the drawing is hung up over our bed. Spacealienqueen
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Some people really need to learn to let go.
H/T : Reddit,LeCharlesMuhDickens
I can't definitively say I've come face to face with the spirits. But I have had some unsettling feelings in the dark. Shadows are just shadows sometimes, but who can be sure.
I hear it...
Nbc Wings GIF by HULUGiphy"I was helping my dad clean my grandma's house after she passed and I went in and was trying to find a song in my phone and before I could I heard a cough plain as day come from down the hallway where her room was. She died of lung and throat cancer it was pretty crazy."
Running Past...
"When I was 5 I remember getting home from my grandpa's birthday party. For context my mom was pregnant with my brother at the time, so my parents had already bought his crib. I woke up in the middle of the night to find a women in a white dress and long black hair standing over my brother's crib. I managed to wake up my dad so he could take me to the bathroom. When I got back it was still there. It was only until morning when it disappeared. Every now and then I see a glance of what I assume is that thing running past the backyard."
The Cat
"My best friend and his wife had moved to a new apartment. I came over to visit a few times, and each time I'd see the motion of a cat in my peripheral vision. Not the image of a cat, but a sense of how a cat moves. Anyway, one day I finally cracked some joke about the ghost cat in the place and his wife was instantly saying "See! See! I told you we had a ghost cat!"
"excuse me"
"I worked graveyard shift in a dementia ward for 4 years and it was anything but quiet. I was working with a nurse one night when we both heard a resident say "excuse me." We looked around and no-one was there. I checked on the resident in question and she was fast asleep in her own room. Many of us also experienced someone whistling in the ward late at night and one nurse even managed to catch a video of it happening. It was unnerving to say the least."
Clueless
Skeleton GIFGiphy"I once saw someone short walk by me in my house. They walked into the laundry room which only has one way in. I walked into it behind them and they where gone. I thought it was my little brother but I went to his room and he was asleep. I still have no clue what that was."
- ImBolio
Now was everyone here positive they were sober? Just asking. Those are certainly spooky moments. I'd like some video footage please. Continue...
Reflections
ghost library GIFGiphy"I was up at 3am when I was maybe 7 or 8. I looked out the window and saw a woman in a white dress run across my yard. I could see through her. She was transparent like the reflections on the window."
"you alright?"
"So, my work place is haunted. I was having a really crap day, and as a cleaner, it's normal that me and my co worker will be the only ones left at night. So I was standing on the second floor, leaning on the banister for the stair case, when I heard this male voice say in my ear "you alright?" Clear as day. I turned around so fast and nobody was there and it scared the hell out of me."
- Rex-the-
Watching Me
"I remember as a young kid I usually use to sit in my bed and watch tv with my room door open while the adjacent guest bedroom next to mine would always have the door shut. I always remember seeing that door fully open and close by itself multiple times a day very slowly and gently. Never really bothered me much now that I think about it… but there were other creepier experiences I had in the same house that made me feel uncomfortable like I was being watched."
Betsy
"I went to the Betsy Ross House as a really little kid in the early 90s. Normal house but I was confused why the tour guide never talked about the woman on the chair crying at the edge of the bed in Betsy Ross's bedroom. So I asked about it. No one else saw the woman at the edge of the bed. I figured it was just a wax museum since there was a wax statue of a man in uniform rolling bullets in the basement."
"Years later, I was looking at haunted Philadelphia tours to go on with a friend and the Betsy Ross House was on it. I was like "woah! I was there!" and looked into it some more. Turns out there is a woman at the end of the bed crying and a uniformed man in the basement that people have reported seeing. There is no way that 8 year old me would have known about either of these things."
hello kitty...
hello kitty lol GIF by Animation Domination High-DefGiphy"I had this hello kitty Balloon In my bed room, it had a string and weight on it. So it was late, I had the lights on just Sitting on my bed. The Balloon turns, faces my door, slowly floats into my hallway and turns and floats into my sister's room. To this day I am scared of balloons."
They are among us and they like Hello Kitty. I'm probably rattling the paranormal cages and they'll come for me next, but I'm ready. I feel like this thread has prepared me.
Boo!
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