Ok, so my daughter(8YO) bugs me to earn some money after supper tonight. I agreed to pay her 2.50 to vacuum the tv room and kitchen. She does that plus the stairs.

After finishing she asks me to take her to the store to spend the money. We needed milk so we ran to the store. She buys 2 small Easter trinkets and a chocolate bunny. I counseled her on spending her money wisely but she insisted the items were not for her. Yeah, right.:rolleyes:

When we got home she gave the bunny to her brother, 1 trinket to Mom, and the other was for me.


Things like this make me hopeful for the future. Other days though. Yikes.

I hope she never loses the gift of doing nice things for others.

Evening Y'all,
75 here today, and I enjoyed every second of it. I let the smoke out of the motor on my lift today, Looks like that new lift I worked into the deal when I was hired will be here tomorrow, I spent half the day cleaning the swamp, I mean shop for my new digs, I am moving 30 feet to the left, it's a much better neighborhood

The buzzard fest wasn't that bad. Most of the big ticket items were already ear marked back between when Mom had her cancer surgery and when she had her first stroke. Actually marked with their name taped to it.

The only furniture anyone wanted was an oak bureau a cherry secretary and a dresser my brother has been supposed to come get for 15 years (it's still here!)

Nobody wanted to sell off all Mom's stuff and split up the money, too much work for the money. Told them to just take whatever was Mom's that they really wanted and I would deal with the rest, ie keep, sell, give away, trash, whatever.

They took some weird stuff. Some bowls, pottery, a couple of platters, a couple of plates, a few books, a set of drinking glasses a couple of glass lamps. All stuff they thought was pretty, not stuff with sentimental value. They even left a diamond ring my Mom had custom set from the diamond out of my grandmother's engagement ring, and both of Mom's diamond wedding ring sets.

Retired the old (left) Rip Curl watch today :cool:

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Clearly, you must be doing something right, Wayne. SmileWavy

Nice looking hardware, Jeff. I haven't worn a watch in 40-50 years. I'm not sure how to act with one on. :)

It is always pretty weird when someone passes away and folks start dividing stuff up. I had a great aunt and uncle on my mom' side who had inherited a great deal of antique furniture and other items that has been in the family for a long time ( my great, great, great grandparents who apparently had money)...some only about 100 years and some much longer. Probably pretty valuable. Their only son sold the house, took a couple of small things and told the fellow who bought the house that he could have anything he wanted that was in the house when he took possession. They had no sentimental value whatsoever to him. Some of the family members managed to get a few of the pieces of furniture before the bed owner took possession...but only because they found out by accident.

My mother remarried late in life to a fellow who had a 109 acre farm and a big house almost next to her property. He was a farmer had a nice place (but no money other than social security) and elected to go ahead and divide everything he had among his two adult children when he married mom to keep their assets separate due to their advanced age. My mom had inherited my Grandmother's house and sold it, getting enough to build a new house solely with her funds where they lived mostly on her money, her things in the house, etc...and he contributed his small SS check,

When he divided his farm and belongings (while healthy), the daughter got the big house and the best property and the son got the part that was good hunting, but essentially swampland which was what the first wife had wanted before she died (property had been in her family). Apparently, the daughter did not get exactly what she wanted and had not talked to he father or brother since.

The fellow died last week after a long illness of a couple years where he couldn't care for himself and my mother (with help from my wife and I) cared for him in her home. His daughter came by the house after the funeral and asked when they were going to divide up "his stuff". Since she had not visited the old guy it helped out in any way while he was ill (and all the "stuff" in the house was my mother's before they married...I thought my mom would have a stroke she was so mad.

It's funny, my aunts are starting to go through my grandmas stuff too with the thought that she may be going to a home soon. My dad wants very little of it, and my mom says he can't bring much home because she wants to downsize soon anyways! Just a few sentimental things, pictures of my grandfather, great grandmothers wedding rings, etc are coming to dad it looks like. My aunts can figure out what to do with all the other junk!

And nice watch Jeff. I've done good at not buying any for several years, but I recently spied a couple of Ted baker watches that I'm quite fond of. Hmmmmmm.

My parents are both turning 74 this year and are in super health they travel extensively with the airstream group and will probably live another 15 years easily. My inlaws are 76 and 70, and are in rougher health shape, but still expect another 10 years with them.

Luckily, there is only one brother on each side, so splitting stuff will be a bit easier. I can imagine that I will get most of the garage/manly stuff, because my brother is a minimalist, and my wife's brother lives in Florida, and is a hoarder of sorts, he has no room for anything else.

I would rather not think about losing them, but maybe it would be wise for the parents to plan for it.

My sister that took most of the stuff is 75 and I'm sure will just add it to the collection in her full full (as both size and no space left) basement.

I'm keeping all the photos. Plan is to scan and put them on a web site for family to download. Did that as a project for the founder of the company I work for. Few years ago Mom let one of my sisters go thru and have copies made of the photo she wanted then put everything back in the wrong places and albums. She left it a mess, what a hassle.

Kodak has a photoshop plug-in that does a pretty good job at repairing scans of faded color prints, negatives, and slides.

All I have are some photos. That's plenty. It's so easy to accumulate stuff, and I'd much rather keep it to a minimum.

When I was growing up Mom carted this big briefcase around to all the family reunions. She was collecting genealogical data for the family tree. After graduating college one of my nephews got all into genealogy. He bought some family tree software and entered everything. Come to find out the software was sold by the Mormons and any data you entered was automatically recorded in their public database. So now all the family tree info Mom dug up is available in any of those programs or services like ancestry.com.

It would have been nice if Mom would have wrote down all the stories that got told as people talked about who was born when etc. I tried, but Mom was just focused on the who what born when to who info.

Ha ha ha...took the last of the family to the airport this morning at 5:30am. Hit drive thru at McD's for nephew some coffee (don't know why anyone would want to drink coffee before a 4 hour plane ride). Anyway, while taking money, chick notices Pepper in back seat, she had seen Pepper with me before. After commenting to me how big she had grown she does the "oh what a cute puppy, hello puppy" thing. Pepper immediately pokes her head out the drivers window from the back seat and says "hello" loudly. Chick freaked and everyone in the McD's kitchen had to come to the window to see and hear the puppy say hello. They didn't give us anything free though.

When my dad died I was the executor of the estate. My brother is pretty laid back. He and his wife flew up and we spent a week going through the house. My dad had a Toyota Highlander that was fairly well optioned. My sister-in-law fell in love with the heated seats. They stuffed it full and drove it home to Alabama. There were only a few things from the garage my brother took that I would have wanted. I hired a guy to run the estate sale. He brought in tables and priced the stuff we did not want. I sold the house and all that is left is one Rolex Gent's Datejust that I am trying to get 2 grand for. Once that is gone I can close the estate and write a check to my brother and myself for the final split.

I have a huge pile of old photos. My parents emptied all of the photos from their parent's houses so it is just a ton. I spent most of a year scanning photos and building a family tree on Ancestory.com That is a great site and now anyone can see the photos. I have found many distant cousins that were thrilled to see a picture of their great great uncle or aunt.

Some of the old family pieces I had like the quilt that my great grandmother received from her grandmother and the wedding gloves of my great great grandmother with a hand written letter that ties it all together I gave to a cousin that has kids and grand kids. They cherish those items and I don't have have any kids to give them to.

I still have some stuff I need to prod some of the cousins to come get or it goes in the trash or on Ebay.

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Some of the cool old photos. This is my mother's parents while they were "courting." This would be before August 1925 for sure since they got married in 1925.

Great pic, Glen!

Spent all night Friday night looking for my personal photo album. It contained all the photos I took from when I was 8 until I was 25. Looked for it because while playing with my camera and double exposures took a perfect picture of my mom. Both were of her sitting in her favorite rocking chair. In one she is looking down crocheting. In the other she is looking up at the TV. Can't find the album anywhere.

It has a lot of pictures I took in boy sprouts carrying a brownie around, pictures of my pet owl, cats, dogs, friends, girlfriends, prom, trips, etc. That picture of Mom, and a double exposure like mom's of my Dad while snoozing in the lazy boy, and looking up to watch the news.

Can't find any of my negatives either!!!!

One of the reasons I put the k-bosh on anyone walking off with ANY photos or albums.

Happy St Patricks Day

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Nothing to do with St Patricks Day, just makes me happy.

Doesn't this look yummy?

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There's something about holding a picture in your hand that is lost in the digital age.

When my Dad died we moved Mom to an apartment. We always had a huge bag of pics that we would go through every now and then. During the move us kids repacked the pictures into a better container and we know right where they are.

As far as "stuff" left after one's passing, I have my Dad's Army dogtag and some letters that I had written to him when I was a child. I didn't know he had kept them.

I keep his dogtag in my wallet. We have the same name so it's more personal.

Yea, I have my dad's dogtag. It looks brand new. He carried it as a key chain for as long as I can remember.

The real tragedy of digital photography is how transient they are. I have heard that there have been more photos taken with just iPhones than all the film Kodak ever sold. I don't have any idea how they can determine that but it sounds reasonable.

How many people can put their hands on the original digital photo they shot just 5 years ago?

We have negatives here at work that date back to the 30s and 40s. Tons of stuff from the 60s to 2015 on film. Some is cataloged better than others. Just yesterday I dug out the negatives our company took of Ada, OK in 1958. It only took me a minute to put my hands on them. They are not available anywhere else on the planet.

Once they are digitized the negs go back in the file cabinet and the digital scans get stored on one of the RAIDs. In a few years I will be able to find those negatives faster than the scans that are just a few among many terabytes of files.

Most people don't have a RAID to store their digital photos long term. Burning a DVDs only last a few years. Really. We have DVDs and CDs we burned just 5 or 6 years ago that are unreadable.