Thinking back to when you were young. Had you any real kind Auntys or Uncles?

AMKC

I have one Aunty who was always really kind and would give me 50 like that even do she could really not afford it. I was young and did not really know or understand that but I always would still try to give it back but she would say no take it and don't say anything.

I would happily pay her back everything she gave me back then if I knew how much it was but I also know she would not take it being to proud.

I have another Aunty who has always been very well off and well she would give you nothing and an Uncle as well he was also my Godfather and he gave me a few bits but I remember when he died he was very well off then over 5 million worth in land alone and I thought he might have left something but not a thing not that I expected that but I was always good to them too. It would have been to have had a letter leftor a chocolate bar even.

You know what they say doe's with the least give the most. The rich are just mean most of them anyway.

NSAman

Why would you expect anything from anyone?

many people earn their money (some inherit) got nothing and expect nothing from anyone.

my aunts and uncles left me and all my cousins with something much more valuable. Fantastic memories!

I had two uncles in particular who were very kind to me at various stages of my life, and my godmother, who was not a blood relative, but was also very special.

Their kindness was not necessarily in material things, but in the little things that made life easier, like helping me move house, putting furniture together for me, or driving me places (before I drove).

All deceased now, but very fondly remembered.

Hangdogroad

An aunt in London sent me an E.T. pencilcase set and viewfinder for my birthday in 1983, thought that was the best thing ever at the time.

laoisgem

I've an aunt who used to cycle to our house, maybe 2 or 3 times a year, I remember the excitement when you seen her because she always brought biscuits, fancy ones at that, so it was a real treat.

Another aunt I spent the summer with as I had a cousin around the same age as me and they lived in Tullamore so that felt fancy too 😂

God I feel old now...

Strumms

Them all,

there were literally none I disliked.

My fav…my great aunt would come home from England twice a year. She’d worked in the accounts office in Cadbury’s and come home for 5 days with a suitcase half full of stuff from the factory for us… our own Mrs Wonka…when she retired she still went back there to avail of her discount in the staff shop and bring home literally kilograms of stuff for us..

she’d spend the few days doing her bits and pieces, family stuff, the cemetery, banking, seeing her old friends, but the last day before she went home she always brought us out to the St Lawrence Hotel in Howth for lunch…a treat for her as much as us but she always insisted on paying as a thank you for my Dad giving her lifts and my mother cooking, she’d never take no for an answer…it was just a ritual, a nice one… she was great fun too… died a few year back at the ripe old age of 93

byronbay2

One of my uncles was also my godfather. He lived quite near us, was pretty well off and we saw him regularly. He never gave me ANYTHING my entire life. It used to annoy me when my siblings got gifts in the post from their godparents (my godmother died when I was very young) while this guy was just down the road and wouldn’t give me the steam off his p!ss! 😡

I’m over it now, though! 😀

cj maxx

I still think about my aunt fondly ( a staunch kerry woman) who when they were back in 1985 bought me a Monaghan flag to bring to Croke Park for the All Ireland semifinal. Monaghan v Kerry. Given that Kerry had several Sam Maguire wins ,she seemed to be honestly cheering for us. Plus the Basil Brush T-shirt from before that. 🙂

McGinniesta

I only ever met one of my uncles before I turned adult and he was a bollocks.

No just the regular borderline sex offender uncle most people have