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    I was exhausted cleaning just my place the last two days, i can't imagine more unless I was off work and could go back out later. phew. Just the stuff the plow leaves in my yard is a workout (then the rest of the yard). and I have a single driveway (also have no car so in theory i could ... leave it all but a path for me and rocky to walk by haha)

    it's hard to say no. but the florida people i HOPE give him something in return? a gift of some kind? cuz otherwise that's rude (unless your husband made a big fuss about not wanting anything then ok that gets awkward after trying). helping someone going thru a rough patch is different.

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    I didn't say but my friend has had a really rough patch. They had to put their dog to sleep. He had epliepsy and the dosage of pheno barbitol kept going higher and higher till he had serious health issues, one of which seemed to be dementia. He'd walk into a corner in a room and get stuck there. Plus he was having more and more seizures. The day they put him down her cousin's husband died of cancer. This at the same time her husband's heart problem was being diagnosed. Guess who DID hire a young guy to move snow? Yup, she did, but he only blows out her driveway, he doesn't do the porch at front or the deck at back. I used to walk the dog when she had to be away. He's a Keeshond, a unique breed around here. I liked all the attention he garnered. They are getting a puppy in a few months, another Kees.

    The Florida guy really helped when OH was laid up in 2015 from his Whipple surgery but OH has been doing his driveway for years and years in winter. And you're right, OH says he doesn't want anything for helping but he's trying to help too many people. He sold a truck to a friend (another with horrible health issues) and for several years every time something went wrong the truck was back at our house for OH to fix it. I said to him, we might as well have kept it, this is why you sold it, because it was 10 years old and things were going to start breaking down.
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    Your OH seems to be to nice a person! My husband is the same way, me, not so much. I don't mind helping others but when they start asking or expecting help I put a stop to it.

    We had neighbors when we first moved here, the husband was an older nice guy, the wife not. She was a younger woman, younger than me. I use to help him with his drive and such, while she sat in her house.
    My husband use to help him out a lot. When he died she had another man move right on in. They were not nice people lol. They would send the kids over to get anything they needed. Got so bad my husband use to hide in the house lol. I even came home to a drop cord plugged in the side of my house because they needed power. That too got unplugged. I'm not a mean person but I refuse to be taken advantage of.

    He sicked me on them rotfl. I just told them "nicely" no, no excuse, just no. After a few more times it stopped.

 



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