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

[Marion Thompson]

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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