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

[Lynn Ronkainen]

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
>>>>>
>>>>>
>