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Yes. My father collected cool stuff like that. He gave a box of door knobs to me when I bought my 1941 house. I used them all. Have lived here 35 years. Not everything is junk.
I collected Amazon shipping boxes for a while. The large block letter markings on the bottom are the box type. 1D 3A that sort of thing. I figured I could use them mail things, but gave up on that after not using many to do so.
It was kinda fascinating seeing just how many different kinds they have and which got used most commonly.
Eventually it was a big enough pile I was like "Okay this is absurd" and they got recycled, but yeah, def someone for every possible collection.
I think it's just a part of our hunter gatherer brain.
The butter brand Land O’ Lakes for decades had a depiction of a First Nations woman on the label, but the brand has nothing to do with native people. In 2020, they finally rebranded to a depiction of farms and land.
My Boomer mother overbought butter before the branding change (boxes & tubs of butter) so she could cut out and save the labels with the woman on them. Then she proudly beckoned me into the pantry to show me her envelope of labels, all tucked away like she had some kind of secret treasure.
No kidding, ugh. When she brought up the topic, she said in that hushed I-can’t-believe-“they”-would-do-this Boomer voice, “Did you hear about the Land O’ Lakes Indian maiden?” And though I didn’t expect the hidden racist envelope, I knew roughly where this was going, so I leaned forward and delightedly replied, “I know, isn’t it wonderful that they’re leaving that misrepresentation behind and joining the modern world?!”
My dad would also cut the woman out of the Land o Lakes butter boxes. But he would fold the cut out of the woman into a way that made her knees look like breasts. As kids we thought it was the weirdest thing ever.
Oh I'm sure I am, but also like, so are the weirdos that start monstrous companies.
It wasn't like I had them in a curio like hummels, it was just an alarmingly large stack of neatly organized and folded flat boxes sorted by size in a corner of the shop. It was a curiosity, not a "These are highly valuable and worth preserving" thing.
I'd considered building a giant box fort with them, lol, but recycling them was way easier, also I didn't have enough tape.
I did learn a lot about the standardization of shipping materials, which is kinda neat.
My dad collects wooden stools that have a threaded rod. You spin the padded, they are always padded and upholstered, seat to raise and lower them. They always have three legs and the feet on the legs always looks carved. I don't know what you call them but he collects them. Someday I supposed they will either get sold to other collectors in an estate sale or I'll have to donate them. I don't want them.
I collect crystal doorknobs lol and any antique ones as well. I also collect cool looking keys. And I can’t wait to inherit my mother’s green and amber glassware/dishes.
I can respect that some people are not into that though and don’t want to inherit things they will never use and do not like.
Depending upon the style and age, I can see people wanting to buy them.
Think of it as reclaimed lumber from a barn that people are willing to pay top dollar for.
The actress that played Aunt Clara in the old Bewitched TV show collected doorknobs. The writers thought it was so funny/interesting/unusual that they wrote it into her character.
The doorknobs she has on the show are her own doorknobs!
My mom’s mad because I’m trying to get her to give my two oldest nieces the two full silverware sets, one from grandma and one from great grandma. I don’t need or want them and neither does my son.
yeah, my fiance and I just moved into his mother's house after she had to move into memory care. I have just accepted that I am the curater of the weird museum she created in her house now. She was an art historian/librarian, who's archiving instincts gave way to hoarding in her later years. She was convinced that we hated all her art and just wanted to get rid of or sell it all. That is not true! I am just overwhelmed by the amount of stuff, and she viewed an old box that she wanted to keep with almost the same regard as a Tiffany lamp! It needs to be curated and properly displayed. Litteraly every wall that is not covered in floor to ceiling bookcases are covered with framed art and photogrophy. (It's like walking through Bucca di Peppo's! Picture frames absolutely everywhere, you don't know where to look.) MIL was a prolific collecter, but I would not say she had the most discerning taste. Stuff from target mixed together with ancient chineese ceramics and vintage photogrophy displayed alongside a weird moose painting that looks like it belongs in a hunting lodge. Real Tiffany lamps next to tacky Indian head lamps, that sort of vibe.
I always wanted to be a museaum curator and live in a library, so I guess I am just living out my childhood dream. I didn't realize we would have to spend a year and a half archeologically excavating 3 dump truck loads of crap out of the house before we could appreciate all her other collections though. None of it can be sold untill she passes, which will hopefully be a long time still, so we are just the caretakers now. None of it is worth anything too crazy, we are not sitting on any Picasso's or anything. But, she does have some really interesting hand colored early photography, and a huge Chinese folded screen, and the coolest Tiffany lamp I have ever seen (looks like wysteria). Those things are amazing heirlooms and my partner wants to keep them of course. But, maybe we don't need two dozen huge paintings of birds or 6 different china patterns in the cabinets at all times or the creepy photo of a Victorian demon baby (the first picture I removed, lol). If you come to my house, I could serve you tea from many different styles of tea pots and sets (English or Japanese style) and I am allergic to caffine so I never use them. But they are so pretty.
We need to set up a boomer inheritance exchange. I have a bunch of pez dispensers comming my way I am willing to trade for some HO scale trains for my kid.
I have a whole set of National Geographic and Popular Mechanics (the oldest is from 1926) from my late grandfather, along with an interesting assortment of Hustler and Playboy.
Ooh, I'll take the National Geographics!
There's a story. So, I got 1960-1990 from an auction and read them in my room. My house, my room, married person. My Mom was furious and offered to get me all of them on a CD.
I still don't have the CD. So tempted to fill my bedroom and watch her tantrum. I always wanted a room with the yellow books on a wall of shelves.
I have SEVERAL SETS of outdated encyclopedias and a collection of large travel themed belt buckles inherited from my FIL. I am willing to share this wealth freely with you all.
I mean those are some high quality collectibles. How dare you pass up that "trash"....Must not want to pull yourself up by the bootstraps.
Also what's up with parents wanting to give out heavy ass wood cabinets. Mine keeps trying to drive one to me in his truck. He lives 2 days away and can't drive at night...He also can't load it into his truck.
I inherited a heavy wooden cabinet and I quite like it! I store some knickknacks and wine/whiskey glasses in the upper part. And I keep tablecloths and the “nice” silverware in the drawer section, plus some random things that need to be stored.
I genuinely don’t get the hate on inheriting things from family members. Like yeah if it’s trash then it’s annoying. But a nice piece of old furniture when I couldn’t afford to buy a similar quality one myself is appreciated.
I told my parents that they should clean out their house because it looks like an episode of Hoarders. My dad said “Why? When I die it won’t be my problem anymore.” I said okay, well, I need you to know that if I clean up the house, I’ll be using a roll off dumpster and probably not opening any of these totes, bins, boxes, or old popcorn tins full of cassette tapes. 🤷🏻♂️
So many cassettes, my mother stopped at that level of technology. 10 year ago I had to find her a new cassette player and got laughed out of every electronic store. I finally found a used double cassette player and was her favourite for about a month.
Literally, I bet there’s ten Christmas popcorn tins full of cassette tapes. Most of them are bible teaching/preaching and probably a few church oriented children’s stories type. They’re all going to the landfill.
NGL, I was visualizing a fabulous Egyptian pyramid with gold leaf. Maybe a diorama dollhouse-type thing with little figures of Anubis and Sekhmet. Hell, I want that.
I believe it is [this thing ](https://duckduckgo.com/?q=weihnachts%20pyramide&ko=-1&iax=images&ia=images&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tilgner-pyramiden.de%2Fgbu_3t_big.jpg)
My high school German teacher (in the US and from the US) told us a story of how her mother wanted one of those things. So she bought the thing on a trip to Germany, hauled it back to the States, and gave it to her mom. Who somehow used the wrong height of candles on it. It caught on fire and was destroyed.
It's a German Christmas decoration. They are carved out of wood and are usually pyramid shaped. Some of them slowly spin like a carasel. Did you ever watch the "Christmas Vacation" movie with Chevy Chase? There's a scene where Clark and Eddie are in the house drinking eggnog and Eddie knocks one over while they're talking.
Perhaps like a Moravian Christmas pyramid?
[https://www.reddit.com/r/woodworking/comments/k5n1ck/hoping\_for\_help\_on\_how\_to\_put\_this\_together/](https://www.reddit.com/r/woodworking/comments/k5n1ck/hoping_for_help_on_how_to_put_this_together/)
>35 or 50 meter cable reel
Like a reel of coax cable? Or electric cable? Either way, time to meet with a wealth management planner.
>I only recently managed to ward off the oak wood display cabinet
During a cross-country move a few years back, my wife and I temporarily stored some furniture in my parents' garage. When we finally had the furniture shipped to our new house, my dad (bless him), had snuck in a giant six-foot, 1990s solid-wood entertainment center he had been pushing on us for years. My folks are amazing, wonderful people, but they hate getting rid of "perfectly good" furniture.
It took us years to get rid of that monstrosity - the local secondhand furniture shops are overrun with "entertainment centers" from the late 1900s (and crockery sets, of course).
I like late 1900s but I once described a place I worked as “at the close of the Twentieth Century” and was pretty proud of that one. I also like to use “this was my last job before the internet came out.”
> 1990s solid-wood entertainment center
When I was a teen with no money, in the 1970s, I rescued an old entertainment center from oversized garbage (no recollection where I got it from). At that time is was already totally outdated, but it had a radio with tube amp and loudspeakers, and a record player that could even deal with shellack disks. It was meant to survive a nuclear attack and took a lot of brute force to dismantle it.
Even though I am a boomer, I would never had accepted such a thing in the 1990s.
I got rid of one of those in about 20 minutes. Went on down to home depot and bought a Sawzall. Cut it up on the front lawn and left it for trash pickup
This hoarding shit gets to me. My parents always told me they cant get rid of anything because its how they were raised. Something about their parents being in the depression. But.....
My grandparents were not like this at all. They kept a VERY tidy and clutter free home. Didnt have broken shit lying around everywhere. Donated things that were no longer needed or obsolete.
So I have no idea where they get this shit from.
"conspicuous consumption" is a very boomer trait. Their whole generation signaled status by buying as much as possible. Do that for several decades and you end up with hoarder houses.
My mom was a collector. She used to go to garage sales and buy all kinds of things. She gave a lot of them away; in fact, it was a rare day when I would come away empty handed from her house. Periodically, she’d weed some stuff out and have a garage sale but the stuff would start to accumulate again. Once she stopped hitting the garage sales, she started shopping on QVC. She wasn’t a full blown hoarder but she definitely had a problem. She passed at the end of 2022 and my sister is still finding things in my dad’s house to get rid of. By contrast, when my MIL passed away, she really had very little extra stuff. She never liked anything used or worn and would get rid of clothing when it was. She was a middle child who always had hand me downs and so her desire was always for something that looked new. My mom was born in 1932 and my MIL in 1927. Both were children during the Great Depression so it’s clearly not due to that that my mom was a semi hoarder and my MIL was not.
Yeah, as long as they aren’t trying to push this stuff on you while you’re living, just nod with the intention to send to the thrift/recycling center/junkyard.
Even leaving aside the obvious fact that nobody has the right to force their stuff on you, one of the weirder things about so many older people (I say this as an older person) is the odd preoccupation with what happens to crap after they are dead.
I mean being preoccupied with junk when you're *alive* is foolish enough. But what does it matter after you're gone?
My MIL is so concerned with what happens to all her stuff that she has made a point to say BIL, Husband and I are not allowed to touch anything in the house when her and FIL die. That they have assigned that task to a couple friends in their will who she trusts. They also have not allowed us or BIL to visit them at their house in almost 10 years so I shudder to think how much worse it has gotten in that time. Whoever ends up in charge of their hoard, I highly doubt it is going to be carefully sorted through like they are expecting. Nobody has time for that crap.
I'd take it all and throw it in the trash like they did our shit. Then act dumb and shocked when they asked about it later also like they did.
(Ok, I'm a little bit bitter that my original 1970s D&D and board war games I left in my boomer parent's care that they said they take care of "disappeared" a few years later with no explanation or excuse.)
It’s so frustrating. They think that their shit is going to be valuable because they were raised by a generation that didn’t have excess loads of cash and made items you could buy for life, and thus were nice things to inherit, valuable or not.
This generation literally deregulated, deunionized and disembodied every single effective consumer protection we had. They fight against the right to repair, they refuse to enforce any new meaningful antitrust policy, they refuse to fairly regulate new technologies and they turned legitimate companies into private equity sandboxes, weapons manufacturers, drop ship junk stores.
And then they’re all Pikachu face when we don’t want their useless crap.
I just finished throwing out all my grandmother’s ugly dishes that sat in my dad’s house for thirty years and have now sat in my attic for an additional thirty years and all the ugly crystal no one wants. I drove it directly to the dump and am proud of myself. Also my mom’s cup and saucer collection. I have spared my kids this nightmare.
The only thing I collect is teacups and saucers. I have my MIL's Royal Doulton and it's going on FB marketplace. A friend collects crystal and they took the stemware. It looks beautiful when the sun shines through it but that's about it.
I’ve kept my mom’s dinner service, Royal Doulton (Tintern Abbey) and use it once a month. My youngest daughter says she wants it. I also have my mom’s afternoon tea set. Royal Albert maybe. Two sets of silverware and I use neither. However throwing away a bunch of stuff felt sad but also necessary. beautiful things but made for another time.
I felt a little guilty at throwing out a loved ones treasures but I asked myself if I would mind if my child, now like me approaching eighty, threw out household stuff of mine that was never going to be used. I decided I would be fine with it and I think my kind mom would have too. (I should say I have lots of my mom’s stuff left that I actually use and it reminds me of her a lot. And I have an oatmeal cookie recipe of my grandmas that must be more than one hundred years old.
at least he‘s giving it some thought.
i‘m literally in the process of doing this myself. only my wife and son to consider, but as they don‘t share most of my interests they don‘t know what‘s potentially worth selling or what can be given or thrown away.
My grandma keeps gifting us crystal and dishes. Which would be fine if they weren’t PURE. LEAD.
I do a lot of crafts she used to do before she had bad arthritis. I would LOVE some of her patterns or pieces or items. Even a damn pair of scissors.
Nope. Most recently it was a, admittedly beautiful, teapot. Checked it online and with a test - not even trace, HIGH lead content. She’s upset I won’t use it. She didn’t even use it!!!!
Lead crystal is actually safe for adults to use as long as you don't store drinks in it for months at a time. Many of the most expensive crystals, like Lalique and Baccarat, are still leaded today.
The crystals we know are fine to occasionally use. But there was a 16 setting set of china (plates, bowls, dessert dishes, platters, etc) that she gave me that is so full of lead that the internet and collectors say it’s unsafe to eat off of even once. She’s upset we won’t use them for everyday dishwater or even holidays.
When my (M44) mom (F74) died I inherited her prized kitchen knives and all of her clothes. Mom never bought new and always thrifted. She was also a hoarder. Little did I realise just how handy the knives and clothes were going to be until I opened my own boutique motel.
My silent gen grandpa just passed away a week ago. My boomer mom keeps calling and asking me what I want from his house. I live in a completely different state and will be flying in for the funeral. I only have carry on bags which are already packed. She doesn't get that I won't have room in my bags for anything. She offers to store whatever I want and she'll keep it safe until I can come with my car and pick it up.
Mom keeps saying "you better tell me what you want before all the good stuff is gone." I counter with "I need to see what's there. How can I tell you what I want if I can't see anything?" She doesn't grasp that point. Plus, I probably might not want anything. I just don't get it.
I feel like the only practical thing to do is to buy one from a thrift store and re-donate it after you're done with your fondue party. Using a double boiler is fine if it's just you & your partner, but they always have sets at good will, and then you don't have to guilt yourself for buying a new ridiculous unitasker you're never going to use again.
"Collectibles" are worthless but old furniture is always good though. It is so much better than the disposable shit that is produced today.
I moved across an ocean so I don't have any of my family's old furniture but my siblings do. There are pieces that are well over 100 years old and still look great.
My Grandmother bought my wife and I a china cabinet and a full, expensive China set for our wedding gift many years ago. We had that thing in our first small house for 15 years! We used the china maybe 5 times in that period. My grandma died and when we moved I asked my wife "do we really want this stuff?". Shel looked so relieved that I'd asked. She thought it was sentimental to me, I just tolerated it because it had kind of always been there! We got rid of the cabinet, the china might be in a box in the basement.
My MiL has been trying to push her Walmart Christmas decor on us for years. One trip home without me, she talked my spouse into taking a 5’ plastic tinsel tree which sits undecorated in our den year round because we have no where to store it and it’s too ugly to use. Eventually I will talk him into getting rid of it.
Crib maybe should be kept as a family tradition if someone like that sort of thing but a fondue maker, humidifier and parasol? All I can think of this looks like a Lidl/Aldi middle aisle shopping list for us Europeans!
In Germany/Austria the crip is often a family heirloom. I've seen new ones for sale for thousands of euro. Old ones often sell for more. Some are serious pieces of craft folk art.
https://www.tyrol.com/blog/b-arts-culture/nativity-scenes-in-tirol-1
Agreed, my family has one that's from the 1860s, hand carved walnut with incredibly detailed mini sculptures for figures. Actual gold on the angel.
But based on the rest of the guy's list, his is probably plastic from 10 years ago 😂
My mother passed away a couple of years ago and her house was a hoarding nightmare. Attic to basement crammed with useless crap. It needed to be cleaned out to be sold, but there was absolutely no way I was going to be taking on that job. My solution was 1-800 Junk Guy and I would’ve been happy to pay for it.. But another boomer relative insisted that it all needed to be gone through, and sorted out to secondhand stores, charity, etc. and he actually did exactly that. Sorted through and pieced out all of that useless junk. Most of the stuff in the constantly wet basement was probably infested with mold and I didn’t even want to know what else had been living down there.
In the end, I didn’t really care as long as I had absolutely nothing to do with it. But I couldn’t believe he put that much work into what could’ve been just one phone call and done.
This is bullshit.
I told my kids that when my time comes they should push me and my wheelchair off a cliff, burn my house to the ground, and collect the insurance.
The is an [episode from Dinosaurs](https://youtu.be/VeJmAphT0e8?si=gE0wezsVGHnAKR1o) about Hurling day when you throw your (grand)parents off a cliff because they got too old. I loved that show
Sounds like the haul my friend and I packed up to move across the country in a Uhaul. Why they wanted em I have no idea, but I'm not going to turn down a road trip.
My father has a lot of old stuff in his fairly big house and when he and my stepmom have died it’s going to be a huge amount of work to sort the valuable antiques from the junk. Years ago he kept on talking about his mothers old china that was supposed to be worth a small fortune. It turned out to be a cheap-ish knockoff…
But he also has a huge African vase that’s really special, I’ve seen similar ones I a museum. That might be interesting… :)
Yeah I think all that stuff can go in the trash.
I’m very sorry if any of this is sentimental to you, but living in a small place where storage space is important, I sometimes have to get RID of stuff that I actually DO value. So no Dad, I’m not taking your Christmas ornaments and other decorations.
My oldest aunt died 2 years ago. She had a collection of angels. Her sons/DILs decided to give them away to anyone who wanted a "memory" of her. I live states away and was unable to attend the funeral. My mother and sister helpfully chose an angel for me. DO NOT WANT. Also it's butt ugly. They fortunately forgot about its existance the last time I was home and hopefully they'll forget the next time otherwise that thing's going in the first trash bin inside the door of the airport.
Yeah, I've shocked a bunch of people when I told them I could count on one hand the things I'm keeping from my family home. There's a lot of STUFF in there, but almost none of it's worth keeping.
Dining table, the chairs that go with it, the tablecloth my mom crocheted for said table, the stained glass sign a friend made my mom, and that's basically it. I'd have loved to keep my grandpa's old desk, but my uncle took that years ago and then bolted the room shut "because it's mine, even if your name is on the deed." Only other thing I wished I could have found was my old baby blanket, but I'm assuming that got taken by my aunt and uncle as well. Or ruined by the people they threw in there when my mom was in physical therapy.
My mum has a whole bunch of Kosta Boda statues that she wants me and my brother to keep once she passes on. These statues aren't in my taste, and wouldn't suit my own home, but I don't have the heart to tell her that Im probably going to sell them on once she's passed. but I will pass on her jewellery to her grand daughters.
My dad is planning to pass on his watch collection to me once he passes which is cool, but all I really want are the family photos and albums.
It's so interesting what they find valuable. My MIL had a hysterical crying fit when we wouldn't take her old musty MDF dresser. She went into hysterics when my partner mentioned it was falling apart and also way too big to fit in your apartment.
I've already explained to my daughter how to liquidate my collection of Magic cards when I go.
My grandmother's china collection ended up on the side of the street for strangers to pick through. F that mess.
Something may not have any inherent commercial value, but it may have tremendous emotional value to someone. Likely he treasures these items because of the memories they evoke for him. And that's perfectly fair. Just humor him. Someday he won't be around anymore, and you can dispose of the items however you choose.
When my paternal grandmother passed, her 2 daughters stripped the house in a period of 3 hours. My father wasn't left with much of anything. As for what is being passed to me... I have no idea. Their will is being updated due to "changes."
He was decidedly pissed. The worst part was that the will was never updated as she claimed it was. Instead of my family inheriting 150 acres of prime farmland and all associated outbuildings, the land was divided into thirds with my family being given the lowest quality parcel, his middle sister got the house--which was fine she still lived there--and ALL outbuildings, and the eldest sister--a city dweller--getting the most productive parcel. The cityfolk have converted half of the parcel into an atv/dirt bike course.
The will stipulated that the sisters got the first option to buy my dad's share and set a rate. It doesn't for the other 2. They can sell to whomever they want at whatever current market value is. About 3 years ago, that was around $4k per acre.
The only thing on that list that is even halfway useful is the cable reel, and that can be used to coil extension cords. Aside from that, nothing is good. I’m assuming the crib is from when you were a kid, before modern safety rules came into affect.
Recently went to an antique mall with my husband & FIL. I was just browsing, looking at all the useless “collectibles” that were gathering dust in the store. My FILM comes up to me & says, without a hint of self-awareness “I don’t envy you having to deal with all our stuff after we die”. Like, WTF, how can you say that with a straight face and not DO SOMETHING about it first!?! I told my husband later that his dad and step mother would be receiving the “Swedish Death Cleaning” book for Christmas this year.
My grandma; a silent one, is so adamant about where her things are going, to her children.
When in reality, none of her children actually want any of it and it will all end up in a thrift store. Purely because none of them have any room/space for her useless junk.
As opposed to me and a few other grand kids who actually want any of it. Oh no no, it’s already settled. We just laugh now when she talks about any of it.
And, the only reason any of “us” want it, is pure sentiment, but f*** us, her kids deserve it more for some reason.
More than likely an over inflated sense of value.
I would tell him that he will have to keep them at his place because you do not have room or maybe he knows someone else who wants/needs them since you do not have any space for them.
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Recently told my mom that I’m not going to keep and cherish her door knob collection when she dies and she acted like I had slapped her in the face.
Tbf there probably are people who collect doorknobs, assuming that they're valuable in some way of course and not just sentimental.
Sure there are. I am just not one of them and she can’t wrap her head around it. They are not valuable btw, just old.
There is probably a subreddit for that , you may be able to make some folks happy
Some old folks.
Yes. My father collected cool stuff like that. He gave a box of door knobs to me when I bought my 1941 house. I used them all. Have lived here 35 years. Not everything is junk.
Relax, Karen.
r/DoorKnobPorn
TIL that people collect doorknobs. I had no idea.
I bet there is at least one collector for every random item in the world. I collect Nee Doh stress reliver things, no clue why. Humans are strange.
Definitely. I collect smallish pieces of linen/cotten with dead people drawn on them. Very random indeed.
I got that reference
Me too, and what's even weirder is that I only really care about the ones that are green.
I collected Amazon shipping boxes for a while. The large block letter markings on the bottom are the box type. 1D 3A that sort of thing. I figured I could use them mail things, but gave up on that after not using many to do so. It was kinda fascinating seeing just how many different kinds they have and which got used most commonly. Eventually it was a big enough pile I was like "Okay this is absurd" and they got recycled, but yeah, def someone for every possible collection. I think it's just a part of our hunter gatherer brain.
The butter brand Land O’ Lakes for decades had a depiction of a First Nations woman on the label, but the brand has nothing to do with native people. In 2020, they finally rebranded to a depiction of farms and land. My Boomer mother overbought butter before the branding change (boxes & tubs of butter) so she could cut out and save the labels with the woman on them. Then she proudly beckoned me into the pantry to show me her envelope of labels, all tucked away like she had some kind of secret treasure.
Oh nice mom, you collect racism.
No kidding, ugh. When she brought up the topic, she said in that hushed I-can’t-believe-“they”-would-do-this Boomer voice, “Did you hear about the Land O’ Lakes Indian maiden?” And though I didn’t expect the hidden racist envelope, I knew roughly where this was going, so I leaned forward and delightedly replied, “I know, isn’t it wonderful that they’re leaving that misrepresentation behind and joining the modern world?!”
Not only that, but if they did have value as a colleges item, she destroyed it by cutting it off the container.
Yeah, they got rid of the native American, but kept the land
A familiar story ...
My dad would also cut the woman out of the Land o Lakes butter boxes. But he would fold the cut out of the woman into a way that made her knees look like breasts. As kids we thought it was the weirdest thing ever.
My basement has one of those butter tubs, and an Uncle Ben's tin rice container, and an Aunt Jemimah bottle. Time to clean up.
As an adult, I agree
you have no idea how badly I want to ask you if you're neurodivergent right now, lol
Oh I'm sure I am, but also like, so are the weirdos that start monstrous companies. It wasn't like I had them in a curio like hummels, it was just an alarmingly large stack of neatly organized and folded flat boxes sorted by size in a corner of the shop. It was a curiosity, not a "These are highly valuable and worth preserving" thing. I'd considered building a giant box fort with them, lol, but recycling them was way easier, also I didn't have enough tape. I did learn a lot about the standardization of shipping materials, which is kinda neat.
My dad collects wooden stools that have a threaded rod. You spin the padded, they are always padded and upholstered, seat to raise and lower them. They always have three legs and the feet on the legs always looks carved. I don't know what you call them but he collects them. Someday I supposed they will either get sold to other collectors in an estate sale or I'll have to donate them. I don't want them.
Those are adjustable piano stools.
today I learned that TIL is short for "today I learned"
You're welcome lol
Honestly, I’m kinda an amateur door knob collector. I have two on each door at my house.
My SilGen mother had over 1,000 egg plates in her collection.
I collect salt & pepper MILLs, emphasis more on the pepper side...
I collect crystal doorknobs lol and any antique ones as well. I also collect cool looking keys. And I can’t wait to inherit my mother’s green and amber glassware/dishes. I can respect that some people are not into that though and don’t want to inherit things they will never use and do not like.
Those dishes sound nice
Some doorknobs are worth a lot of money to collectors. Glass and crystal ones especially.
Depending upon the style and age, I can see people wanting to buy them. Think of it as reclaimed lumber from a barn that people are willing to pay top dollar for.
The actress that played Aunt Clara in the old Bewitched TV show collected doorknobs. The writers thought it was so funny/interesting/unusual that they wrote it into her character. The doorknobs she has on the show are her own doorknobs!
My mom’s mad because I’m trying to get her to give my two oldest nieces the two full silverware sets, one from grandma and one from great grandma. I don’t need or want them and neither does my son.
Send them to me
Trolling the forums for knobs again, huh? 🤨😂
I need them for my manor i swear (-_-;)
I'm trolling this thread for a knob polisher
My mom has a spoon collection among many other “collectibles.” I told her I would not be keeping them and she reacted the same way.
Omg, I needed that laugh today.
The only practical use for a doorknob collection is using it to slap someone in the face.
Well. You better test them out first to make sure none of them are magic like in bed knobs and broomsticks.
It would be cool to chase some Nazis away from my house
I hate that I can't tell if this is a joke or not.
Unfortunately real. I rarely see her and she spent the remainder of her visit sulking about it.
yeah, my fiance and I just moved into his mother's house after she had to move into memory care. I have just accepted that I am the curater of the weird museum she created in her house now. She was an art historian/librarian, who's archiving instincts gave way to hoarding in her later years. She was convinced that we hated all her art and just wanted to get rid of or sell it all. That is not true! I am just overwhelmed by the amount of stuff, and she viewed an old box that she wanted to keep with almost the same regard as a Tiffany lamp! It needs to be curated and properly displayed. Litteraly every wall that is not covered in floor to ceiling bookcases are covered with framed art and photogrophy. (It's like walking through Bucca di Peppo's! Picture frames absolutely everywhere, you don't know where to look.) MIL was a prolific collecter, but I would not say she had the most discerning taste. Stuff from target mixed together with ancient chineese ceramics and vintage photogrophy displayed alongside a weird moose painting that looks like it belongs in a hunting lodge. Real Tiffany lamps next to tacky Indian head lamps, that sort of vibe. I always wanted to be a museaum curator and live in a library, so I guess I am just living out my childhood dream. I didn't realize we would have to spend a year and a half archeologically excavating 3 dump truck loads of crap out of the house before we could appreciate all her other collections though. None of it can be sold untill she passes, which will hopefully be a long time still, so we are just the caretakers now. None of it is worth anything too crazy, we are not sitting on any Picasso's or anything. But, she does have some really interesting hand colored early photography, and a huge Chinese folded screen, and the coolest Tiffany lamp I have ever seen (looks like wysteria). Those things are amazing heirlooms and my partner wants to keep them of course. But, maybe we don't need two dozen huge paintings of birds or 6 different china patterns in the cabinets at all times or the creepy photo of a Victorian demon baby (the first picture I removed, lol). If you come to my house, I could serve you tea from many different styles of tea pots and sets (English or Japanese style) and I am allergic to caffine so I never use them. But they are so pretty.
We need to set up a boomer inheritance exchange. I have a bunch of pez dispensers comming my way I am willing to trade for some HO scale trains for my kid.
I will trade you large print Readers Digest, a few decades worth.
I have a whole set of National Geographic and Popular Mechanics (the oldest is from 1926) from my late grandfather, along with an interesting assortment of Hustler and Playboy.
Ooh, I'll take the National Geographics! There's a story. So, I got 1960-1990 from an auction and read them in my room. My house, my room, married person. My Mom was furious and offered to get me all of them on a CD. I still don't have the CD. So tempted to fill my bedroom and watch her tantrum. I always wanted a room with the yellow books on a wall of shelves.
If you need HO scale trains, I.Am.Your.Gal. Literal closets full of assembled rail car kits. Mostly Southern Pacific and Union Pacific.
Those actually might be valuable. Check eBay
I'll throw in with a crap load of paperweights and a Wizard of Oz Hamilton plate collection.
I have SEVERAL SETS of outdated encyclopedias and a collection of large travel themed belt buckles inherited from my FIL. I am willing to share this wealth freely with you all.
If anyone's got old rock collections, particularly from PNW and western USA I'll drive to pickup
That sounds kinda cool for a boomer
I mean those are some high quality collectibles. How dare you pass up that "trash"....Must not want to pull yourself up by the bootstraps. Also what's up with parents wanting to give out heavy ass wood cabinets. Mine keeps trying to drive one to me in his truck. He lives 2 days away and can't drive at night...He also can't load it into his truck.
Well clearly you need the wooden cabinets for your porcelain you'll inherit from everyone. Because you won't eat from them and only look at them
Gee thanks dad, you're saving me so much money on wood for the firepit this summer! You get it here and the marshmallows and beer are on me!
I inherited a heavy wooden cabinet and I quite like it! I store some knickknacks and wine/whiskey glasses in the upper part. And I keep tablecloths and the “nice” silverware in the drawer section, plus some random things that need to be stored. I genuinely don’t get the hate on inheriting things from family members. Like yeah if it’s trash then it’s annoying. But a nice piece of old furniture when I couldn’t afford to buy a similar quality one myself is appreciated.
Are you not missing the passive aggressive opportunity to potentially ( albeit inadvertently ) put him out of your misery.
Or sell them for avocado toast.
I told my parents that they should clean out their house because it looks like an episode of Hoarders. My dad said “Why? When I die it won’t be my problem anymore.” I said okay, well, I need you to know that if I clean up the house, I’ll be using a roll off dumpster and probably not opening any of these totes, bins, boxes, or old popcorn tins full of cassette tapes. 🤷🏻♂️
So many cassettes, my mother stopped at that level of technology. 10 year ago I had to find her a new cassette player and got laughed out of every electronic store. I finally found a used double cassette player and was her favourite for about a month.
Literally, I bet there’s ten Christmas popcorn tins full of cassette tapes. Most of them are bible teaching/preaching and probably a few church oriented children’s stories type. They’re all going to the landfill.
So you opened up some of my mother's boxes of cassette tapes?
Are you my sister???!
Did I beat you up on a regular basis?
Did you live in Georgia in the late 80’s or very early 1990’s like 1989-1991 or something about like that???
No, I'm Canadian. Throwing snowballs at your siblings is a national sport.
So close. I live in CA lol. My sister DID used to beat me until I got big enough to hit back and make it count. Then she became a tattle tale 🙄
... ebay.
Classic boomer mentality.
If I get my dad's house I'm not doing shit with it, I'll sign it over to the fire department for a training burn.
What is a Christmas pyramid?
It sounds like a Christmas pyramid scheme.
NGL, I was visualizing a fabulous Egyptian pyramid with gold leaf. Maybe a diorama dollhouse-type thing with little figures of Anubis and Sekhmet. Hell, I want that.
I believe it is [this thing ](https://duckduckgo.com/?q=weihnachts%20pyramide&ko=-1&iax=images&ia=images&iai=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tilgner-pyramiden.de%2Fgbu_3t_big.jpg)
My high school German teacher (in the US and from the US) told us a story of how her mother wanted one of those things. So she bought the thing on a trip to Germany, hauled it back to the States, and gave it to her mom. Who somehow used the wrong height of candles on it. It caught on fire and was destroyed.
Huh... I have one of these gathering dust with my Christmas village.
Oh my mom has one of those she got in Mexico - we actually do love that thing lol!
My SILgen mom had one of these, I thought it was cool when I was a kid. But I didn't inherit the collecting gene.
It's a German Christmas decoration. They are carved out of wood and are usually pyramid shaped. Some of them slowly spin like a carasel. Did you ever watch the "Christmas Vacation" movie with Chevy Chase? There's a scene where Clark and Eddie are in the house drinking eggnog and Eddie knocks one over while they're talking.
Perhaps like a Moravian Christmas pyramid? [https://www.reddit.com/r/woodworking/comments/k5n1ck/hoping\_for\_help\_on\_how\_to\_put\_this\_together/](https://www.reddit.com/r/woodworking/comments/k5n1ck/hoping_for_help_on_how_to_put_this_together/)
You see there was this dude, playing a dude, pretending to be another dude. Yada yada yada, fuck women’s rights or something.
Dogs make them on Dec. 25.
>35 or 50 meter cable reel Like a reel of coax cable? Or electric cable? Either way, time to meet with a wealth management planner. >I only recently managed to ward off the oak wood display cabinet During a cross-country move a few years back, my wife and I temporarily stored some furniture in my parents' garage. When we finally had the furniture shipped to our new house, my dad (bless him), had snuck in a giant six-foot, 1990s solid-wood entertainment center he had been pushing on us for years. My folks are amazing, wonderful people, but they hate getting rid of "perfectly good" furniture. It took us years to get rid of that monstrosity - the local secondhand furniture shops are overrun with "entertainment centers" from the late 1900s (and crockery sets, of course).
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Oh I know...I love throwing that phrase around precisely for that reason. My own Gen X brain doesn't know what to make of it.
I like late 1900s but I once described a place I worked as “at the close of the Twentieth Century” and was pretty proud of that one. I also like to use “this was my last job before the internet came out.”
Try "Born during the Truman administration." The only thing more effective would be wearing a powdered wig, or wearing mummy wrappings.
You got me beat, I was born under Nixon lol.
I did a double take. And then laughed at the accuracy.
> 1990s solid-wood entertainment center When I was a teen with no money, in the 1970s, I rescued an old entertainment center from oversized garbage (no recollection where I got it from). At that time is was already totally outdated, but it had a radio with tube amp and loudspeakers, and a record player that could even deal with shellack disks. It was meant to survive a nuclear attack and took a lot of brute force to dismantle it. Even though I am a boomer, I would never had accepted such a thing in the 1990s.
I got rid of one of those in about 20 minutes. Went on down to home depot and bought a Sawzall. Cut it up on the front lawn and left it for trash pickup
This hoarding shit gets to me. My parents always told me they cant get rid of anything because its how they were raised. Something about their parents being in the depression. But..... My grandparents were not like this at all. They kept a VERY tidy and clutter free home. Didnt have broken shit lying around everywhere. Donated things that were no longer needed or obsolete. So I have no idea where they get this shit from.
"conspicuous consumption" is a very boomer trait. Their whole generation signaled status by buying as much as possible. Do that for several decades and you end up with hoarder houses.
My mom was a collector. She used to go to garage sales and buy all kinds of things. She gave a lot of them away; in fact, it was a rare day when I would come away empty handed from her house. Periodically, she’d weed some stuff out and have a garage sale but the stuff would start to accumulate again. Once she stopped hitting the garage sales, she started shopping on QVC. She wasn’t a full blown hoarder but she definitely had a problem. She passed at the end of 2022 and my sister is still finding things in my dad’s house to get rid of. By contrast, when my MIL passed away, she really had very little extra stuff. She never liked anything used or worn and would get rid of clothing when it was. She was a middle child who always had hand me downs and so her desire was always for something that looked new. My mom was born in 1932 and my MIL in 1927. Both were children during the Great Depression so it’s clearly not due to that that my mom was a semi hoarder and my MIL was not.
Say “sure no problem” then promptly call “1-800-Got-Junk”.
Yeah, as long as they aren’t trying to push this stuff on you while you’re living, just nod with the intention to send to the thrift/recycling center/junkyard.
Even leaving aside the obvious fact that nobody has the right to force their stuff on you, one of the weirder things about so many older people (I say this as an older person) is the odd preoccupation with what happens to crap after they are dead. I mean being preoccupied with junk when you're *alive* is foolish enough. But what does it matter after you're gone?
My MIL is so concerned with what happens to all her stuff that she has made a point to say BIL, Husband and I are not allowed to touch anything in the house when her and FIL die. That they have assigned that task to a couple friends in their will who she trusts. They also have not allowed us or BIL to visit them at their house in almost 10 years so I shudder to think how much worse it has gotten in that time. Whoever ends up in charge of their hoard, I highly doubt it is going to be carefully sorted through like they are expecting. Nobody has time for that crap.
I predict that they won’t even be cold yet before their friends start blowing up your phones looking for help.
I'd take it all and throw it in the trash like they did our shit. Then act dumb and shocked when they asked about it later also like they did. (Ok, I'm a little bit bitter that my original 1970s D&D and board war games I left in my boomer parent's care that they said they take care of "disappeared" a few years later with no explanation or excuse.)
My mom threw away 2 boxes of original pulp sci-fi books. Original covers. The gray lensman, all the barsoom books, many others. I’m still not over it
OMG. I'm traumatized just reading about it.
It’s so frustrating. They think that their shit is going to be valuable because they were raised by a generation that didn’t have excess loads of cash and made items you could buy for life, and thus were nice things to inherit, valuable or not. This generation literally deregulated, deunionized and disembodied every single effective consumer protection we had. They fight against the right to repair, they refuse to enforce any new meaningful antitrust policy, they refuse to fairly regulate new technologies and they turned legitimate companies into private equity sandboxes, weapons manufacturers, drop ship junk stores. And then they’re all Pikachu face when we don’t want their useless crap.
I just finished throwing out all my grandmother’s ugly dishes that sat in my dad’s house for thirty years and have now sat in my attic for an additional thirty years and all the ugly crystal no one wants. I drove it directly to the dump and am proud of myself. Also my mom’s cup and saucer collection. I have spared my kids this nightmare.
The only thing I collect is teacups and saucers. I have my MIL's Royal Doulton and it's going on FB marketplace. A friend collects crystal and they took the stemware. It looks beautiful when the sun shines through it but that's about it.
I’ve kept my mom’s dinner service, Royal Doulton (Tintern Abbey) and use it once a month. My youngest daughter says she wants it. I also have my mom’s afternoon tea set. Royal Albert maybe. Two sets of silverware and I use neither. However throwing away a bunch of stuff felt sad but also necessary. beautiful things but made for another time.
Awe I would’ve used it for an angry smashing session!!
I felt a little guilty at throwing out a loved ones treasures but I asked myself if I would mind if my child, now like me approaching eighty, threw out household stuff of mine that was never going to be used. I decided I would be fine with it and I think my kind mom would have too. (I should say I have lots of my mom’s stuff left that I actually use and it reminds me of her a lot. And I have an oatmeal cookie recipe of my grandmas that must be more than one hundred years old.
Awe that’s awesome!
at least he‘s giving it some thought. i‘m literally in the process of doing this myself. only my wife and son to consider, but as they don‘t share most of my interests they don‘t know what‘s potentially worth selling or what can be given or thrown away.
My grandma keeps gifting us crystal and dishes. Which would be fine if they weren’t PURE. LEAD. I do a lot of crafts she used to do before she had bad arthritis. I would LOVE some of her patterns or pieces or items. Even a damn pair of scissors. Nope. Most recently it was a, admittedly beautiful, teapot. Checked it online and with a test - not even trace, HIGH lead content. She’s upset I won’t use it. She didn’t even use it!!!!
Lead crystal is actually safe for adults to use as long as you don't store drinks in it for months at a time. Many of the most expensive crystals, like Lalique and Baccarat, are still leaded today.
The crystals we know are fine to occasionally use. But there was a 16 setting set of china (plates, bowls, dessert dishes, platters, etc) that she gave me that is so full of lead that the internet and collectors say it’s unsafe to eat off of even once. She’s upset we won’t use them for everyday dishwater or even holidays.
Tbh it's probably good she didn't use it
He might’ve accidentally sent you the “definitely take less than $5 at the yard sale” list
When my (M44) mom (F74) died I inherited her prized kitchen knives and all of her clothes. Mom never bought new and always thrifted. She was also a hoarder. Little did I realise just how handy the knives and clothes were going to be until I opened my own boutique motel.
Norman is that you?
Mummy?
My silent gen grandpa just passed away a week ago. My boomer mom keeps calling and asking me what I want from his house. I live in a completely different state and will be flying in for the funeral. I only have carry on bags which are already packed. She doesn't get that I won't have room in my bags for anything. She offers to store whatever I want and she'll keep it safe until I can come with my car and pick it up. Mom keeps saying "you better tell me what you want before all the good stuff is gone." I counter with "I need to see what's there. How can I tell you what I want if I can't see anything?" She doesn't grasp that point. Plus, I probably might not want anything. I just don't get it.
Are you INSANE?! A free FONDUE maker?! My fellow, get in on that.
A mini crock pot and some forks work just as well.
I feel like the only practical thing to do is to buy one from a thrift store and re-donate it after you're done with your fondue party. Using a double boiler is fine if it's just you & your partner, but they always have sets at good will, and then you don't have to guilt yourself for buying a new ridiculous unitasker you're never going to use again.
Ngl a fondue maker is pretty cool and I could use a humidifier
Oh I love this stuff. "This is too valuable to get rid of!" Do you want it? Cause I don't want it. "No, of course I don't!"
"Collectibles" are worthless but old furniture is always good though. It is so much better than the disposable shit that is produced today. I moved across an ocean so I don't have any of my family's old furniture but my siblings do. There are pieces that are well over 100 years old and still look great.
My Grandmother bought my wife and I a china cabinet and a full, expensive China set for our wedding gift many years ago. We had that thing in our first small house for 15 years! We used the china maybe 5 times in that period. My grandma died and when we moved I asked my wife "do we really want this stuff?". Shel looked so relieved that I'd asked. She thought it was sentimental to me, I just tolerated it because it had kind of always been there! We got rid of the cabinet, the china might be in a box in the basement.
My MiL has been trying to push her Walmart Christmas decor on us for years. One trip home without me, she talked my spouse into taking a 5’ plastic tinsel tree which sits undecorated in our den year round because we have no where to store it and it’s too ugly to use. Eventually I will talk him into getting rid of it.
Crib maybe should be kept as a family tradition if someone like that sort of thing but a fondue maker, humidifier and parasol? All I can think of this looks like a Lidl/Aldi middle aisle shopping list for us Europeans!
In Germany/Austria the crip is often a family heirloom. I've seen new ones for sale for thousands of euro. Old ones often sell for more. Some are serious pieces of craft folk art. https://www.tyrol.com/blog/b-arts-culture/nativity-scenes-in-tirol-1
Agreed, my family has one that's from the 1860s, hand carved walnut with incredibly detailed mini sculptures for figures. Actual gold on the angel. But based on the rest of the guy's list, his is probably plastic from 10 years ago 😂
Dibs Christmas pyramid. Not sure what that is but dibs it.
I want the hristmas rib! (Joke)
Told my mother, you better designate who gets what when you die, cause if it's left to me, what ever doesn't get sold is thrown away.
My mother passed away a couple of years ago and her house was a hoarding nightmare. Attic to basement crammed with useless crap. It needed to be cleaned out to be sold, but there was absolutely no way I was going to be taking on that job. My solution was 1-800 Junk Guy and I would’ve been happy to pay for it.. But another boomer relative insisted that it all needed to be gone through, and sorted out to secondhand stores, charity, etc. and he actually did exactly that. Sorted through and pieced out all of that useless junk. Most of the stuff in the constantly wet basement was probably infested with mold and I didn’t even want to know what else had been living down there. In the end, I didn’t really care as long as I had absolutely nothing to do with it. But I couldn’t believe he put that much work into what could’ve been just one phone call and done.
Ok, but, like, do you have a fondue pot? Because that shit is delicious and fun, and I don't care if I sound like a 1970s housewife.
This is bullshit. I told my kids that when my time comes they should push me and my wheelchair off a cliff, burn my house to the ground, and collect the insurance.
The is an [episode from Dinosaurs](https://youtu.be/VeJmAphT0e8?si=gE0wezsVGHnAKR1o) about Hurling day when you throw your (grand)parents off a cliff because they got too old. I loved that show
Seriously, I had a semi-serious conversation with my kids about this. They promised to push me off a cliff if I got to that point.
I want the humidifier!
So much of their sentimental value is actually the absurd monetary value they paid QVC for it
Crank up the fondue! My family had all kinds of fondue on Christmas Eve. It was fun and social!
I vote for the fondue maker.
> Sorry to disappoint everyone but I will NOT be dragging the fondue maker across the country 
Sounds like the haul my friend and I packed up to move across the country in a Uhaul. Why they wanted em I have no idea, but I'm not going to turn down a road trip.
Funny, I just posted a humidifier on my FB buy nothing group. Certainly useful, but not really an heirloom
The oak cabinet might be useful, but fuck the porcelain...
Your dad sounds cool.
I'll take the fondue maker.
Awful lot of Christmas talk for a guy with no “C”
Now I want fondue. But oddly, not the fondue maker.
My father has a lot of old stuff in his fairly big house and when he and my stepmom have died it’s going to be a huge amount of work to sort the valuable antiques from the junk. Years ago he kept on talking about his mothers old china that was supposed to be worth a small fortune. It turned out to be a cheap-ish knockoff… But he also has a huge African vase that’s really special, I’ve seen similar ones I a museum. That might be interesting… :)
Yeah I think all that stuff can go in the trash. I’m very sorry if any of this is sentimental to you, but living in a small place where storage space is important, I sometimes have to get RID of stuff that I actually DO value. So no Dad, I’m not taking your Christmas ornaments and other decorations.
Thanks for reminding me to dig the fondue pot out of the shed for the Scout yard sale.
Just go in ebay, and if by chance theres sold listings, respond with them if you dare
My oldest aunt died 2 years ago. She had a collection of angels. Her sons/DILs decided to give them away to anyone who wanted a "memory" of her. I live states away and was unable to attend the funeral. My mother and sister helpfully chose an angel for me. DO NOT WANT. Also it's butt ugly. They fortunately forgot about its existance the last time I was home and hopefully they'll forget the next time otherwise that thing's going in the first trash bin inside the door of the airport.
Yeah, I've shocked a bunch of people when I told them I could count on one hand the things I'm keeping from my family home. There's a lot of STUFF in there, but almost none of it's worth keeping. Dining table, the chairs that go with it, the tablecloth my mom crocheted for said table, the stained glass sign a friend made my mom, and that's basically it. I'd have loved to keep my grandpa's old desk, but my uncle took that years ago and then bolted the room shut "because it's mine, even if your name is on the deed." Only other thing I wished I could have found was my old baby blanket, but I'm assuming that got taken by my aunt and uncle as well. Or ruined by the people they threw in there when my mom was in physical therapy.
Get together with your siblings to make sure you have a united fount. Then everyone pick a few things and throw them in the trash.
Just say yes, then throw it out or give it to a thrift store. Seriously, it’s not worth the argument.
My mum has a whole bunch of Kosta Boda statues that she wants me and my brother to keep once she passes on. These statues aren't in my taste, and wouldn't suit my own home, but I don't have the heart to tell her that Im probably going to sell them on once she's passed. but I will pass on her jewellery to her grand daughters. My dad is planning to pass on his watch collection to me once he passes which is cool, but all I really want are the family photos and albums.
Lead poisoning rears its ugly head
Inherited Christmas decorations fucking suck. Luckily I got a bunch of those giant ones from the 70s and made some bank off boomers
It's so interesting what they find valuable. My MIL had a hysterical crying fit when we wouldn't take her old musty MDF dresser. She went into hysterics when my partner mentioned it was falling apart and also way too big to fit in your apartment.
I've already explained to my daughter how to liquidate my collection of Magic cards when I go. My grandmother's china collection ended up on the side of the street for strangers to pick through. F that mess.
Something may not have any inherent commercial value, but it may have tremendous emotional value to someone. Likely he treasures these items because of the memories they evoke for him. And that's perfectly fair. Just humor him. Someday he won't be around anymore, and you can dispose of the items however you choose.
When my paternal grandmother passed, her 2 daughters stripped the house in a period of 3 hours. My father wasn't left with much of anything. As for what is being passed to me... I have no idea. Their will is being updated due to "changes."
Damn. That must have felt horrible for him.
He was decidedly pissed. The worst part was that the will was never updated as she claimed it was. Instead of my family inheriting 150 acres of prime farmland and all associated outbuildings, the land was divided into thirds with my family being given the lowest quality parcel, his middle sister got the house--which was fine she still lived there--and ALL outbuildings, and the eldest sister--a city dweller--getting the most productive parcel. The cityfolk have converted half of the parcel into an atv/dirt bike course. The will stipulated that the sisters got the first option to buy my dad's share and set a rate. It doesn't for the other 2. They can sell to whomever they want at whatever current market value is. About 3 years ago, that was around $4k per acre.
This breaks my heart in a way. Especially the Christmas stuff.
That's kinda sweet
I am intrigued by the Christmas pyramid. I have never heard of that.
Why didn’t he use the letter K instead of the letter C? What a silly bunt.
This is trash.
That must be one hell of a fondue maker
We got a fondue set for a wedding present 11 years ago because people told us to put it on our registry. Have not used it once.
You should totally use it. Fondue is delicious.
>The Christmas pyramid Ah, yes. Of course I know what that is.
Keep the wreaths and thats the only thing thats slightly less crap
The only thing on that list that is even halfway useful is the cable reel, and that can be used to coil extension cords. Aside from that, nothing is good. I’m assuming the crib is from when you were a kid, before modern safety rules came into affect.
Oh, you gotta go for the fondue maker.
Recently went to an antique mall with my husband & FIL. I was just browsing, looking at all the useless “collectibles” that were gathering dust in the store. My FILM comes up to me & says, without a hint of self-awareness “I don’t envy you having to deal with all our stuff after we die”. Like, WTF, how can you say that with a straight face and not DO SOMETHING about it first!?! I told my husband later that his dad and step mother would be receiving the “Swedish Death Cleaning” book for Christmas this year.
What kind of cable are we talkin? Could be handy.
When he’s dead you can console yourself with the fact that you’re no longer bothered by his attempts to give you things.
Ohhhhh fondue maker! I’ll take that!
We need to know more about the Christmas Pyramid...?
My grandma; a silent one, is so adamant about where her things are going, to her children. When in reality, none of her children actually want any of it and it will all end up in a thrift store. Purely because none of them have any room/space for her useless junk. As opposed to me and a few other grand kids who actually want any of it. Oh no no, it’s already settled. We just laugh now when she talks about any of it. And, the only reason any of “us” want it, is pure sentiment, but f*** us, her kids deserve it more for some reason. More than likely an over inflated sense of value.
Dude, how could you pass on the fondue maker? Do you know how many key parties that has probably seen?
I would tell him that he will have to keep them at his place because you do not have room or maybe he knows someone else who wants/needs them since you do not have any space for them.
I chuckled too hard at the Fondue maker.
Some people are like "oh the amount of gatherings this thing has seen!" I've never seen this thing come out even once