However, sometimes it's not the item, but the memory that is the important thing.
I had enough family heirloom furniture to furnish my 5,000 sf house back in Georgia. What it amounted to is that I was maintaining a museum for several generations of my family, at great cost.
I gave what I could to family, they didn't want much of any of it. When I moved to SF I took two plates, a small table and a clock. I sent the rest to an estate settlement company to dispose of. It wrenched my gut.
In the end I find it's the memories in my head that keep me grounded to my heritage, not the items.
For what I got for the stuff I could have taken a month off and gone to Europe. I think that my family would agree that would be more important than to hang on to a bunch of things.
Besides, isn't going to EuroDisney a trip to Europe? LOL
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Date: 2005-11-14 09:01 pm (UTC)However, sometimes it's not the item, but the memory that is the important thing.
I had enough family heirloom furniture to furnish my 5,000 sf house back in Georgia. What it amounted to is that I was maintaining a museum for several generations of my family, at great cost.
I gave what I could to family, they didn't want much of any of it. When I moved to SF I took two plates, a small table and a clock. I sent the rest to an estate settlement company to dispose of. It wrenched my gut.
In the end I find it's the memories in my head that keep me grounded to my heritage, not the items.
For what I got for the stuff I could have taken a month off and gone to Europe. I think that my family would agree that would be more important than to hang on to a bunch of things.
Besides, isn't going to EuroDisney a trip to Europe? LOL