[Magdalen] speaking of downsizing...Stuff it: Millennials nix their parents’ treasures - The Washington Post

Wed Apr 1 12:46:33 UTC 2015

Yes, it's here.  But being me, I have neither the time nor mental energy 
to do this at this time. At the moment, it's all books and small stuff 
being packed -- sl-o-o-owly.  I have also given a whack of books to St. 
Peter's for its library.  Dean says that with both our extensive 
contributions we probably have the best church library going!  A ton of 
books are going to Trinity for the annual book sale, but I like stuff to 
go to a good known home. too.

Maybe once the painting is done and the decks cleared, so to speak, I 
can turn my mind to disposing of more furniture-type articles. One step 
at a time.  I do still have to live here for some unknown period!

Marion, a pilgrim

On 3/31/2015 6:28 PM, Lynn Ronkainen wrote:
> do you have anything like Craig's List in Toronto Marion?  An online, 
> free, sales venue that is localized to cities or greater metro areas.  
> Post a picture and a description, price optional and there is a double 
> blind contact via email, or one can provide one's own phone number 
> outright , or require the interested party to email and provide their 
> number (which you could call with a blocked cell phone - IF one wanted 
> layers of privacy.  If they email, and you return email, your email 
> will have also been revealed... when I moved the last time I sold my 
> washer/dryer, upright freezer, and a large (not by today's standards 
> anymore) screen TV this way... and had a very successful garage sale 
> by advertising only on Craig's list, including listing items... a few 
> odd items that were large did not sell, and someone called me 3 weeks 
> later, asking if I still had one of them, and they came out and bought 
> it.
>
>
>
> Lynn
>
> My email has changed to: houstonKLR at gmail.com
>
> website: www.ichthysdesigns.com
>
> When I stand before God at the end of my life I would hope that I have 
> not a single bit of talent left and could say, "I used everything You 
> gave me." attributed to Erma Bombeck
>
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> From: "Marion Thompson" <marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2015 2:40 PM
> To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
> Subject: Re: [Magdalen] speaking of downsizing...Stuff it: Millennials 
> nix their parents’ treasures - The Washington Post
>
>> I have in my bedroom my great-grandfather's mahogany highboy bureau 
>> with a swing mirror sitting on a small two-drawer pedestal.  Any 
>> bidders???? Also a night table of his.  And a mahogany bureau of 
>> three big drawers and two small with its big mirror.Oy!  How I long 
>> for IKEA at this point.
>>
>> Yesterday I packed into boxes the large number of photo albums 
>> (mainly the trip to Aus and NZ in 88) also quantities of photos of 
>> back to great- great- relatives, old friends and the kids when they 
>> were small.  This is slow work!
>>
>> Marion, a pilgrim
>>
>> On 3/31/2015 3:00 PM, Jay Weigel wrote:
>>> Me too. I was supposed to get my grandma's dining room table which 
>>> graced
>>> my parents' dining room for many years after Grandma moved to 
>>> Tennessee to
>>> live with them, but I have no place for it so I willed it to my 
>>> daughter. I
>>> do have Grandma's bureau, which was part of her first bedroom suite; 
>>> the
>>> bedstead that went with it has fallen to rack and ruin. I am also 
>>> supposed
>>> to get a cherry dresser that belonged to my mother and may have to 
>>> bring it
>>> home next week if it fits in the back of my car. I really wanted the 
>>> family
>>> photos but I think I am going to let my daughter put them on CDs for 
>>> me.
>>>
>>> On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 2:51 PM, Marion Thompson 
>>> <marionwhitevale at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Me, too.  Me, too.  In spades doubled!
>>>>
>>>> Marion, a pilgrim
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 3/31/2015 2:30 PM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hoo boy, does ever describe us!  We were crammed with stuff from 
>>>>> the first
>>>>> residence we had after getting married, and we just have all these
>>>>> wonderful things that have all those family memories attached, and 
>>>>> I am
>>>>> pretty sure nobody will want.
>>>>>
>>>>> We have all these incredible art works done by my mil who was a 
>>>>> master at
>>>>> all forms of stitching, some done with fold thread, and so on.  
>>>>> The family
>>>>> dies out with my spouse. I know my nieces and nephews will have no
>>>>> interest
>>>>> in this stuff.  I shudder to think of what will happen to it when 
>>>>> we're
>>>>> gone, or when we do the drastic down-size.  We have a gorgeous formal
>>>>> dining table which will probably just go to the highest bidder one 
>>>>> day. A
>>>>> cabinet where my grandmother remembered sitting at when she was a 
>>>>> child,
>>>>> writing her first letter to her mother for some occasion, her father
>>>>> standing behind her, gently helping her form the letters and 
>>>>> words. When I
>>>>> was cleaning out my parents' condo, I happened upon a letter 
>>>>> written in a
>>>>> very young hand to someone's mother.  It had maybe two sentences. 
>>>>> Nothing
>>>>> special.  I wondered if that was the letter my grandmother had 
>>>>> written.
>>>>> Her daughter, my mother, had saved it, perhaps.
>>>>>
>>>>> And there are so many letters and documents my wife has gathered 
>>>>> about the
>>>>> family history.  I hope someone will take them and preserve them.
>>>>>
>>>>> I guess one has to remember that these things are really not that 
>>>>> big a
>>>>> deal, but it sure doesn't feel that way.
>>>>>
>>>>> James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
>>>>> *“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not 
>>>>> preserved,
>>>>> except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 6:16 PM, Lynn Ronkainen 
>>>>> <houstonklr at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>   http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/boomers-unwanted-
>>>>>> inheritance/2015/03/27/0e75ff6e-45c4-11e4-b437-
>>>>>> 1a7368204804_story.html?tid=hybrid_experimentrandom_3_na
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I resemble this article as much as my kids do (age appropriate
>>>>>> resemblances...)
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Lynn
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>
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