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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Apparently, I am the only one that likes the inherited furniture.  I like that our kitchen table is being used by the 4th and 5th generation and the chairs too.  I love the small table from my grandmother's because I reminds me of her...  Both DH and I inherited furniture from grandparents an parents that we love.   I love using my maternal grandmother's china- she died when my mother was 14.  I  I didn't realize I am an odd duck. [/quote]

It's not that we didn't love our grandparents. We don't have the space for it. [/quote]

I would love some of my grandma's things or inherited furniture. Except all our grandparents are in their 80s/90. We're nearing 40 and our parents are 70. Our parents are the ones who will get everything and sell it for cash or toss it. I assume we'll be retired before we get any possessions from our parents. [b]Inherited furniture/dishes only goes to children, not grandchildren or great grandchildren[/b]. [/quote]

How weird that this is so rigid. You must have a lot of people dying in your family if you have such rigid rules.

Why would your parents sell it instead of giving it to you?[/quote]

My mom died recently and left her things to us children.  We then brought in the grandkids, other family and close friends and divided things up. [b]What we had left we donated to a couple needy families [/b]who needed extra furniture.  We threw very little away.  It was so hard because we loved her, but we took great care with her things that she loved.  Some of you are so cold and heartless.[/quote]This reminds me that we also donated some furniture from my silent generation MIL.  Her significant other knew of someone in the apartment complex who could use some of her furniture and we were happy to share it.  Also when my brother died, broke, and with a condo that wasn't worth fixing up and selling, we just walked on his estate rather than go through probate.  So we took some personal things but we gave his furniture to some local women who were starting a second-hand store and his car to the sister of a neighbor with the understanding that she would pay off the Homeowner's Association a small amount for it (he had died owing them money).  It was painful that my brother died under the circumstances he did but it was great to give the furniture and the car to these other folks who could use them, rather than letting them sit at the condo till the bank took everything.[/quote]

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