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[quote=Anonymous]My husband's mom is from TX oil money - his grandfather was an Oil Exec.  While not uber rich by today's standards, it gave him (us) a very nice life.   She has alzheimer's now - so I have been helping prepare/go through her home for sale and auction which gives a glimpse of the old school lifestyle.    MIL was a Dallas deb - her gorgeous deb portrait from the 50s still hangs in her bedroom.  Then onto Ole Miss where she was in an "old" sorority where she was active until she got sick with Alzheimers   While she downsized from the "big" house, she still has lots of valuable original oil paintings and portraits of family members, hundreds of pieces of silver and English/Irish crystal, including 3 complete sterling silver sets with every fork, knife and spoon you can imagine, vintage clothing, including gowns and furs from the Neiman Marcus Trophy room (Mr. Marcus' private collection from the original Dallas store), 14 pairs of Ferragamo shoes in every color, 6 Chanel bags in all sorts of colors and a special cedar closet where all of the "good" clothes, coats and Chanel suits are stored.   Now onto her children?  How does that work.  Well - at age 18 , each of the three kids received a trust of roughly 18 M each doled out by a trust manager until age 30.     My husband received his back in the late 1980s so it paid for all of his schooling plus his first car and our first house.  Anyway - you would never know that we even have this money - our house is nice but modest.  Maybe we should have lived it up a little more!    But I think this is a pretty basic mid level Texas "rich" story.  [/quote]

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