My mother lives next door and she really tries to be helpful.
She is constantly doing things for me like buying plants, groceries or racking my lawn.
Most of the time what she does is great. Anytime I leave my house for an extended period of time I get nervous. My mother overdoes it. She is constantly over to my house getting the mail, watering plants and doing yard work. In the kitchen I have a ventless heater that is definitely a fire hazard. My husband and I have tried to fix it. We used an air compressor to blow out the dust in the system since the heater kept complaining about a clogged filter. It didn’t seem to help. The machine frequently overheats. When I am home I just turn the system off, clean it again and try later. When I leave the house I just completely shut the heater down. If you aren’t keeping an eye on the heater, I really feel it will just light on fire and burn my house to the ground. I have begged my mother to leave the kitchen heater alone and she just won’t. I kind of see her point. I live in the north and if you go without heating your pipes could freeze. I still have a gas fireplace in the living room. There is still an upstairs heater. I feel the kitchen will just get cold, not freezing. I also would rather deal with frozen pipes than a house burnt to a crisp. I feel the moment I pull out of my driveway my mother is turning on my ventless heater and leaving it the whole time I am gone. One of these days she is burning my house down.