Posted on 04/14/2016 12:27:24 PM PDT by metmom
Mine don’t. They’re all gainfully employed and have moved out of town on their own.
My MIL, despite never cooking a meal in her life, had so many sets of kitchen knives, toasters, blenders, crockpots... all mostly still in the unopened original packaging it wasn't even funny. She must have had a habit of buying stuff from late night infomercials on TV. For months after she died we would invite friends over for dinner... and wouldn't let them leave unless they took some stuff with them.
True. However, the cost of moving some high-quality, BIG, HEAVY pieces of furniture can be prohibitive.
When my parents sold their last "big house" after my brother and I had left home permanently, they wanted to give us some of the furniture. The house was in Virginia Beach. I lived in San Antonio (in a 3-room apartment), and my brother lived in Germany in barracks. They ended up selling most of the furniture along with the house.
I have a desk, a dresser, and a side table out of my grandmother's house. At the time she died, we lived close enough for my dad to drive a pickup there in one day, and we had room. Other than that, we just have small items from both my parents and my grandparents.
Luck with your garage sale: maybe a vase collector will come by. When my father and his cousin cleared his mother's house, they found some quite valuable antiques. His cousin kept some, and they sold others.
The article is about furniture, antiques, dishes, China etc, that appears to be what kids don’t want. I am sure they want the cash.
LOL! So true!
"You need good china for when guests come to visit!"
"Mom, when guests come to visit, we use paper plates."
My m-i-l had most of her photos dumped into a beautiful chest.
I’m keeping the chest, but the photos are going to the people who are in them.
If they don’t want them that’s no skin off my back. I’m just glad to be rid of them.
Kids don’t want money, they just want what money buys.
When my grandmother died, my mother & aunts fought viciously over her Hummel collection, all of them convinced that those dam Hummels would be worth tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The fight between sisters got so nasty that they never spoke again, in fact when one sister died of cancer it was months later that the others even found out she was sick.
Now a days, nobody wants Hummels and instead of bringing riches, the prices have collapsed and they are worth very little. So it’s just sad they tore the family up over such meaningless worthless things.
There’s only one great grandchild that’s an adolescent girl, they will all go to her, that’s if as the article suggest she would take them.
I have a friend who is an antique dealer and she’s given me GREAT advice about what’s valuable and what’s not.
She said you wouldn’t believe what people think has value and doesn’t and what doesn’t have value that they think does.
my aunt is like this. She is 90 and has a mansion full of stuff she had special made for her. Her little dogs have peed on everything, and no one wants her stuff.
She doesn’t get it! She wants my kids to have a silver formal tea set. They aren’t going to use it, they’ll sell it on ebay.
sad but true
And most likely worth s goodly sum of money to collectors and movie prop companies.
“The hardest are the photographs, particularly framed family photos.”
Yep! As I said - we were lucky that my mom had most of the information written down on the back with names, etc. And if not we were still able to ask her and she remembered everything!
We ended up taking a photograph of the picture and the information and put it in the for-sale pile. Some of them were really nice large wood frames. “I’ll give you $10 for the two of them.” But - they were out of the house.
I kept one professional portrait of my dad as a young child (born 1916). It’s pretty cool.
My first thought was that the author was not taught the value of things. I have stuff that is valuable to me and I have taught my sons to respect that.
Oh boy, can I relate to this article. We have 3 married kids with huge houses. My daughter has gone through more furniture in her 18 year marriage than we have in 47 years. She wants nothing that we have. Our middle one lives in CA. so it’s impossible to offer him “stuff”. The youngest has accepted a few furniture items we were getting rid of during a downsizing. They want no part of the Lenox china, the sterling silver or the collectibles.
My 98 year old mother can’t understand why my daughter doesn’t want any of her clothes.
There are, however, many things, we own, they would love to have...boats,cars and 2 homes.
One deer season, late 1980s, when a lot of us were in Missouri, Dad brought out a mechanical toy he’d been given around 1942. It still worked! We saw an identical one on Antiques Roadshow valued in the $400-500 range. There was as lot of stuff like that.
Dad said his cousin asked him, “Bill, can I have this ceramic bowl?” He said, “Sure, Evelyn, you can have whatever you want!” “Would you say that if I told you it’s worth $1,500?” “Of course. It didn’t matter to me five minutes ago, and it doesn’t now.”
Dad was like that. I have some things from his Navy career and the stuffed cat he had in the nursing home.
Oh, I have no doubt that stuff wound up in garbage cans that someone, somewhere would've paid a lot of money for (old LPs, out of print books, etc.). The problem was that trying to catalogue my mom's vast collection of stuff would've in itself been a full-time job. Nobody wanted to deal with it.
Our photos are dumped into a chest too, but it is mine, his and ours all mixed together. I have tried to sort them but I always give up and do something else.
I love to watch Hoarders on TV because it makes me clean out and get rid of unwanted items but it doesn’t help with the photos.
one other thing I have noticed:
In the 1960s everyone had 3 to 4 children and stuff was expensive. So when Grandparents 1200 square foot home was broken up folks had room in their new 2400 square foot home.
In the 1980s and 1990s the families had declined to 1 or 2 children, then when grandma an grandpa die the furniture got stored for the kids.
Now the Kid have nothing or an apartment. Stuff is cheap and each generation has its preferences. Living space is expensive.
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