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My sister in law's brother recently got married... they were getting rid of a lot of furniture... wood with dove tail construction and well made...
His wife wanted IKEA and that is what they bought... a whole house worth.
I took a couple of the bookcases and dressers to use in my shop...
He saw them a few months later and said he should have thought of that... make great garage storage and who knows... the patina from my use could make them more valuable some day!
I thought I was so clever when I bought special Christmas ornaments specifically for each child as they were growing up with the plan to give them to them for their own homes. One turned out to be a raging atheist and the other couldn't care less.
I have four kids. Two of them really don't care much about heirlooms and antiques and two care VERY much. All of them like and enjoy family photos and artwork.
I thought I was so clever when I bought special Christmas ornaments specifically for each child as they were growing up with the plan to give them to them for their own homes. One turned out to be a raging atheist and the other couldn't care less.
How old are they and do they have kids of their own? Actually that could go for most of the stuff you're hoping to divest - if they're hipsters in their 20s they probably wouldn't be interested in heirlooms or even things from their own childhood but once they have their own homes and families they might suddenly start turning sentimental, it might be worth hanging on to at least things like those ornaments for a few more years.
Another tip, especially if you have sons - offer these things to their partners as well. From what I've seen in our extended family the sons often don't care but the daughters-in-law do.
Both in their 30's and extremely mobile. Son lives in Singapore and moving to Kazakhstan in a few weeks. He is more interested in experience than in things and spends his money accordingly. He has a SO and baby on the way but doubt it would be practical to share them. maybe when kids are older.
Daughter moving too and she doesn't care. We don't decorate very much now even though we still have 2 at home. Would love to give them away to like Ronald McDonald House or Hospital but they don't want them either. So many people now decorate their xmas trees in "themes" now...la de da...
Don't get me started on family photos. One of my sisters divided them. When she gave them to us and we looked at them, she had given us all of the photos with pictures of ourselves (and divided the photos with pictures of our parents). She didn't understand when we complained and said we'd like pictures of our siblings too. Since she's a bit self-absorbed, she assumed everyone only wanted pictures of themselves. When the technology became available to make copies of photos, some siblings did that with key photos and gave them as gifts, but they enlarged them and they're all grainy and not worthy of displaying.
It would be a great gift for parents to copy photos while they alive and give the to their children. Why wait until everyone is dead to have family photos of their own? Plus, it eliminates one child dividing them in a weird manner like my sister did.
For years I would always give my Nieces and Nephew $5 US gold coins every Christmas and Birthday...
They are older now and couldn't tell what others gave them as children except for my gifts.
I told them they are given without strings...
Each teenager has a nice little nest egg of gold coins... when I started they were $37 ea and went as high as $200 each depending on the price of Gold.
WOW! Your nieces & nephew are pretty lucky to have someone give them quite the investment.
Each of the grandkids got a Silver Eagle for their first Christmas with their birth year date. Not worth as much as gold but to me, it is giving them something that I love that I hope they will love, too.
WOW! Your nieces & nephew are pretty lucky to have someone give them quite the investment.
Each of the grandkids got a Silver Eagle for their first Christmas with their birth year date. Not worth as much as gold but to me, it is giving them something that I love that I hope they will love, too.
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I wanted them to get something they would remember...
Just couldn't bring myself to buy made in China plastic that no will care about or remember a year later...
Could be years of managing low income rental properties...
Each year after Christmas I would need to double down on the dumpster service and over the course of a few months most of the toys would end up in the trash...
I saw one Mom tossing her daughter's Christmas bike in the trash... it was a few months old...
She said the tires are flat... I offered to take a look and she said her Daughter didn't want it anymore because she no longer like Barbie??? It was a pink Barbie bike
I thought I was so clever when I bought special Christmas ornaments specifically for each child as they were growing up with the plan to give them to them for their own homes. One turned out to be a raging atheist and the other couldn't care less.
Sometimes it skips a generation and some kids are late bloomers
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