Dad has absolutely let himself, & his house, go since Mom ran off with a guy half her age, however that was a few years ago, but i don’t believe he has shopped for clothes since then, since everything he wears is worn & outdated.
My uncle Pete takes my father to the barber once a week.
It’s their sibling bonding time. I believe I should get Uncle Pete to take Dad clothes shopping, then our forte is working on getting Dad to work on the house… He hasn’t been increasing the cooling system filter, every one of us have been doing that! Fortunately, my hubby is an HVAC worker & can perform my father’s necessary tune-ups & make most repairs that may come along. Every one of us have been trying to convince my father to paint the trim, to no avail, then now, every one of us need to convince him to buy a new HVAC component because his is getting pretty outdated & is not as efficient as it could be. The other day, I observed that it was eighty-two degrees in the house, even though the control component was set at seventy-several degrees. It’s not that my father is cheap. He’s retired comfortably. He just has no ambition or motivation to care about anything. The only reason the shrubbery gets mowed is because the county will wonderful him if it’s not. Maybe what my father needs is to meet someone new, or a puppy. Maybe he needs some antidepressants. I don’t know, but what I do believe is that I’ve got to find a way to get him to paint the trim & replace the HVAC component before it is too late, but because, chances are that it will die when it works the hardest, in the middle of summer. That is the worst time to go separate from cooling system.