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

[Jay Weigel]

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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