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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do your kids even want your stuff? My parents brought up how they’ll divide their things between me and my siblings and I was thinking “we don’t want this stuff!” I would just sell or give away or throw away practically anything my parents left for me and I’m pretty sure my siblings will too. I’m talking paintings/artwork, books (they have a huge book collection including some valuable ones), furniture and household items. If I can sell for a profit, I will. Otherwise I’ll donate or throw out. My parents and I do not have remotely the same taste in art and our sense of style is very different. I am very sentimental and will save photos, anything they’ve written like personal notes/letters but I don’t have an attachment to or want their “stuff.”[/quote]

+1. I’m a minimalist and my parents have a ton of stuff that I don’t want. [b]I love them and would like a few mementos but the only things I can think of that id really want are small/don’t have much monetary value (a Christmas ornament, some fridge magnets, photos)[/b]. I think a lot of older people do a lot of hand wringing about who gets their things when in actuality a lot of younger people are like me and don’t want the things.[/quote]

I'm the PP who told the story about my grandfather.  Lots of what all of us as his surviving children and grandchildren wanted were the small things.  Even those you'd be surprised how sometimes more than one person attaches meaning to that same item.  I'm betting that when the time comes my brother will want my mom's 50yr old waffle iron.  She's famous for making her waffles with a recipe from some 1960s cookbook.  I have fond memories but don't want it, although it's a family memory so I could just as easily want it and we'd have to work it out.[/quote]

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