@roonie very much so! both my nephews are as much curly-heads as i am if not more, even though one of my brothers has pretty straight hair. my dad’s genes pillaging the countryside
Mom saved A LOT OF STUFF. It's going to fall to me to actually throw my childhood stuffed animals away, for example. When she dies, which will probably be within a year or two, I'll tackle this kind of thing. It's going to kind of suck; I can't keep all or even a quarter of all the family memoribilia. Some items are obvious keepers. Grandma's Norwegian Bible, and dirty limericks that my father wrote her in 1960: these make the first cut....some of the photos and letters. A few of the kiddy books, like the Scarry.
@nikkuneko @thelonius My mother was a chucker.
The DAY we came home from my father's FUNERAL(!!!!), "Do you want any of these suits? Anything? It all has to go.".
FFS Mum, calm down.
My Grandfather's war medals - my father's father - he spent time in a Japanese POW camp, she practically gave them away to a bloke who knocked on the door, scavenging.
Anything from my history, my sister's, my father's, important papers that I would need one day, all gone, Chuck it out.
Be thankful your mothers keep stuff. The only stuff my mother kept was all about her glamorous life.
grrr, bitter and twisted
PS I've just been buying a couple of Richard Scarry books secondhand, online, to read to my grandchildren.
@roonie oof, that's rough. i'm sorry you had to go through that. dealing with hoarding, i forget the other end of the spectrum can be bad too. but hey, great you can get those books for your grandkids, that will be a delight.
@thelonius yeah, that is definitely down the road for me too. good luck to you tackling it as it comes to you.
@roonie that reminds me - my grandfather's citation and medal (I think it is the Legion Of Merit) is at the top of the list of things I need to find. Mad respect to your grandfather for enduring that and surviving.
i butt heads with my mother sometimes about, uh, how much she keeps, but i’m glad she held onto our childhood books.
The DAY we came home from my father's FUNERAL(!!!!), "Do you want any of these suits? Anything? It all has to go.".
FFS Mum, calm down.
My Grandfather's war medals - my father's father - he spent time in a Japanese POW camp, she practically gave them away to a bloke who knocked on the door, scavenging.
Anything from my history, my sister's, my father's, important papers that I would need one day, all gone, Chuck it out.
Be thankful your mothers keep stuff. The only stuff my mother kept was all about her glamorous life.
grrr, bitter and twisted
PS I've just been buying a couple of Richard Scarry books secondhand, online, to read to my grandchildren.
@thelonius yeah, that is definitely down the road for me too. good luck to you tackling it as it comes to you.