At least with my mil, it would have been better to make a fake gift certificate for her to lose. We got her a phone card once so she could call her kids....never used. And at least for her, experiences would be a giant waste of money. When we saw her we would take her out to eat, and buy her food that didn't need…

gift certificate is just wasted because it will get lost. Hoarding often goes along with never getting out of the house too.

Sister, that is hoarding. It may be highly specific hoarding but hoarding it is. My mil was a hoarder, and she once refused to move a box of "family" stuff so her grandson could sit on the couch. My 11 year old had to sit on my lap.

I think it is an extension of the pantomime tradition. The prince is always played by a woman, and the grandmother by a man.

That's why the disgusting frogs eye salad is on the list. There are a lot of Mormons in Nevada.

He has - he excommunicated an (former) priest in Argentina who was hiding out basically in a monastery.

Unity was pretty on board with the whole murdering people stuff. She shot herself in the head when England and Germany declared war on each other. She was in the English Garden in Bavaria. She survived, sort of, and was like a child the rest of her life.