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

[Marion Thompson]

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
>>>>
>>>>