Heirlooms

Roger Mellie Man on the Telly

What goods do you have your eye on, even though the owner isn't dead yet?

Bone Cancer

The neighbours missus.

gramar

A collection of showband vinyls.

biko

The loom

BrokenArrows

The house but with the average life span of my family ill be an old man myself first.

Wibbs

The field.

KERSPLAT!

Wibbs wrote: »

The field.

Tis my field, yank!

Walter H Price

Roger Mellie Man on the Telly wrote: »

What goods do you have your eye on, even though the owner isn't dead yet?

Nothing the idea of taking dead peoples stuff kinda creeps me out a bit, also wouldn't really be one for second hand stuff.

When my Granda died i didn't go looking for any of his things , he left me his watch and cash in his will , i do wear the watch on special family occasions and that out of sentiment more than anything , but i would never have looked at it when he was alive and though , when hes dead i definitely want that , bit morbid like.

Winterlong

Years ago I was visiting my mother and had my sister on the phone. We were talking about some old grandfather clock that is in the house and for badness I said 'Well, of course that has one of my red stickers on it so it will come to me when she passes'

This was met with a very shocked sounding 'What?'.

I elaborated that I had put red stickers on all the items in the house that would come to me on the passing of my mother.

She hung up on me and was in the car and drove the 90 minutes to my mother's house before I could explain that I was only joking. Not sure if either of us learned anything that day.

OldGoat

A friend of mine only has a short walk left to her and she's now busy giving her stuff away. If you mention or even look closely at anything in her apartment she's giving it to you. We joked about putting colour coded stickers on all her possessions. Gotta love a morbid sense of humour.
I know she feel better for giving her stuff away but it does make me feel...guilty? Ill at ease anyway. Is survivor guilt a thing?

On the plus side I got a sweet limited edition cigar travel humidor.

gifted

Their loans ....trying to dodge them lol lol

OldGoat

OldGoat wrote: »

A friend of mine only has a short walk left to her and she's now busy giving her stuff away. If you mention or even look closely at anything in her apartment she's giving it to you. We joked about putting colour coded stickers on all her possessions. Gotta love a morbid sense of humour.
I know she feel better for giving her stuff away but it does make me feel...guilty? Ill at ease anyway. Is survivor guilt a thing?

On the plus side I got a sweet limited edition cigar travel humidor.

Yes, a relative of mine gave her more valuable possessions away after a terminal diagnosis. I felt so guilty at the time, as though it was my job to dismiss the diagnosis and insist everything would be ok and she needed to keep her things. Afterwards I was really glad she insisted.

My grandfather is leaving me his pooja cabinet -similar to this, in honor of my being the only grandchild he's successfully taught how to meditate, and to practise vinyasa yoga. It will mean the world to me to have that after he's gone and I like knowing he has it marked out for me.

Aglomerado

Walter H Price wrote: »

Nothing the idea of taking dead peoples stuff kinda creeps me out a bit, also wouldn't really be one for second hand stuff.

It creeps me out too. There's nothing I want from anyone.

I have an aunt in her late 70s who owns a valuable property in Limerick, no kids of her own.

Last year one of my cousins asked her how old she was... working out anticipated remaining life span.

She's perfectly healthy, hope she keeps them waiting!!! (I don't get on with her so I'm not circling with the other vultures.)

Walter H Price

Aglomerado wrote: »

It creeps me out too. There's nothing I want from anyone.

I have an aunt in her late 70s who owns a valuable property in Limerick, no kids of her own.

Last year one of my cousins asked her how old she was... working out anticipated remaining life span.

She's perfectly healthy, hope she keeps them waiting!!! (I don't get on with her so I'm not circling with the other vultures.)

My cousin does it all the time with my nana and her jewlery , none of it's even that expensive and it might of been cute when she was a small child saying nan when you die can i have this or that but shes 24 now and it just comes across as kinda creepy and morbid always gets my back up when she starts because it comes across like shes just waiting for them to pop their clogs so she can get few quid and some costume jewelry. She has even said before that my aunt has told her that when my grandparents die she will give her her share of the sale of the house , i sanpped the head off her when she brought that up.

Id rather have my grandparents here and in good health then any of their stuff or a bitta money. I have plenty of my own stuff and money but only 3 grandparents now.

gramar

Walter H Price wrote: »

My cousin does it all the time with my nana and her jewlery , none of it's even that expensive and it might of been cute when she was a small child saying nan when you die can i have this or that but shes 24 now and it just comes across as kinda creepy and morbid always gets my back up

A nan at 24...whatever is the world coming to!

Walter H Price

gramar wrote: »

A nan at 24...whatever is the world coming to!

No the cousin is 24 , my nana is 83 and not in the best health which kinda makes it worse again now i suppose.