Containment What will happen when Barb dies?

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Here's my personal hypothesis on what will happen after Barb dies.

First off, Chris is not ending up in a group home. That little theory has been debunked countless times by many people, so it's not really worth discussing in depth.

My personal view on the whole affair is that Barb's death will be a make or break moment for Chris. This will either free him or utterly crush him and the ball is entirely within Chris's court. Once Chris goes through the initial grieving process, one of two things may happen.

Barb has been mistreating Chris and treating him as part of her hoard for quite some time, and it's only recently with her declining health that Chris is able to live more freely and her grip has loosened. Once Barb dies, Chris will be hurt and very sad, but if he plays his cards right, a life without Barb may be better for him.

With Barb gone, Chris has nothing left to tie him to the hoard. He can leave if he chooses to do so (and evidence suggests that he hates living in the hoard). Marvin has stated countless times that Chris can pay the bills and basic rent with his tugboat and the only reason why he's currently begging for money now is because Barb is taking a large portion of his money to pay off her debtors. With Barb dead, that would no longer be an issue. If Chris can get one of his acquaintances or ass-patters to help him find a cheap low-end trailer or apartment near Charlottesville, he could easily survive. He'd be living tugboat to tugboat and barely scraping by, but compared to the hoard, that's a massive step up in quality. There's no way his acquaintances would let him live with them, but in the event of something major like Barb dying, they may help find a place of his own in the middle of nowhere or in a shitty apartment on the lower end of the Charlottesville area.

Again, this is the best case scenario. Worst case scenario, Chris ends up homeless like ADF and is utterly shattered by Barb's death. It could really go either way at this point. However, he's not ending up in a group home.

Just my two cents on the whole issue.
 
Syaoran Li said:
Barb has been mistreating Chris and treating him as part of her hoard for quite some time, and it's only recently with her declining health that Chris is able to live more freely and her grip has loosened. Once Barb dies, Chris will be hurt and very sad, but if he plays his cards right, a life without Barb may be better for him.
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It's probably good she has declined slowly over the course of years, so that Chris gets little tastes of freedom here and there, and is increasingly responsible for doing things she can't do any more. If she'd just gotten crushed under a collapsing pile of hoard years ago, that would be a lot worse.
 
If the tugboat is something like 13-1500 a month as the wiki states, Chris could continue to live at 14blc if he

- wanted to.

- isn't a dumbass about budgeting. :optimistic::optimistic:

Does he want to keep living at 14BLC, though? Since Bob died it's seemed like more of a prison than a home. A prison full of Goodwill Barbage.
 
AnOminous said:
It's probably good she has declined slowly over the course of years, so that Chris gets little tastes of freedom here and there, and is increasingly responsible for doing things she can't do any more. If she'd just gotten crushed under a collapsing pile of hoard years ago, that would be a lot worse.
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See the sad thing is that I can easily see Chris, a man who currently hates the hoard, becoming fixated on it as his last link to his mother. He'll sell anything of value for lego sheckels but all the worthless crap he'll hang onto and excuse it as memories of his mother.
 
SoneeBoi said:
She'll be buried under Patty's one-thousand ton doghouse.
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That's way too much work for Chris to handle, it would be a lot easier for him to just wrap her up in a rug and leave her out on the curb for trash pickup. Not to mention he'd be saving a ton of lego money by not spending it on funeral costs.

And I'm sure Barb would want to buried in a massive landfill.
 
I don't really know how gov. assistance works in VA or anywhere else, tbh.

Will the tugboat be increased when Barb dies?
 
LazarusOwenhart said:
See the sad thing is that I can easily see Chris, a man who currently hates the hoard, becoming fixated on it as his last link to his mother. He'll sell anything of value for lego sheckels but all the worthless crap he'll hang onto and excuse it as memories of his mother.
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Nah. He'll just put it all on the curb and expect the garbage men to take it leave his door open with a sign taped to it saying "GARBAGE HERE" and wait for the garbage men to come inside and clean it out.
 
Alec Benson Leary said:
Nah. He'll just put it all on the curb and expect the garbage men to take it leave his door open with a sign taped to it saying "GARBAGE HERE" and wait for the garbage men to come inside and clean it out.
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Oh trust me I wasn't insinuating that he'd attach any REAL sentiment to it. "Memories of Borb" would be his token excuse for not wanting to put in the physical effort to remove it.
 
Alec Benson Leary said:
Nah. He'll just put it all on the curb and expect the garbage men to take it leave his door open with a sign taped to it saying "GARBAGE HERE" and wait for the garbage men to come inside and clean it out.
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I could see him piling a mountain of stuff out for the garbage men and just assuming they'll take it "Because that's their job", and eventually sperging over them wanting more money and having to call ahead.

Either that or a Craigslist/Yard Sale with severely overpriced tags on water damaged "antiques".

Who knows, maybe he will pay it forward and dump all her old lady clothes he doesn't want to wear to the Salvation Army.
 
If she dies I have a feeling his SSI benefits will end up getting him into some type of subsidized housing program so he won't just end up on the street; though I doubt most of those subsidized housing come with free internet; so he might end up having to go to the local library from now on to post online.

Worse case scenario is he'll end up on the street and probably find some homeless shelter to live at.
 
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