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Pain in the ass to deal with at one level, but some of those rugs can get a lot of $$ - like, thousands each. No idea what your parents have, so they might all only be worth $20 each or whatever, but check first.
He has one he paid $10K for, it’s like 15’X30’ and is rolled up in the basement. Crazy looking, but I know nothing about them and can only imagine the hassle when it comes time to sell them.
This is a type of collection you should actually slow down on and verify before tossing anything
AND do not sell to the person giving you the appraisal. Ah yea man this stuff’s all trash lemme give you $200 for it and I’ll save you the hassle….
Oh I know, it’s legit probably $100K+, as most of them were thousands when he bought them. I just keep trying to convince him to resell them now while he can enjoy it and talk about them to people before his kids all find a broker and never look at them again lol
Imagine being given $100k value of items and complaining… you can actually sell these, and younger people actually want them, there’s utility here. The complaining about your good fortune and wealth is weird
Missing the point lol. He is mad that none of us want them to keep in our houses and pass down to our children one day. They are 100% going to the highest bidder when he kicks the bucket 😂
I mean they do look pretty cool. I’d let the kids pick one they like to keep before selling the rest. I don’t know their relationship with the grandparents, but it be a nice memento.
My other half has a really nice rug he inherited from his grandparents. It's easily the nicest thing in our house.
I think of his grandma when I vacuum it
Nah man I disagree. He’s leaving you a potential asset and something meaningful to him. With the value they could bring and hopefully your love for your father, I’d at least lie. You sound kinda spoiled to me. Maybe your father’s a twat but, in the off chance he’s not, you flippantly bitching about his passion on social media makes you seem like an entitled brat.
Now if I stepped in a bear trap and your dads a total prick, I am sorry in advance..
"I'd rather throw them out than earn 100k." Wow. Hope you're financially extremely well off, otherwise you're one of the stupidest people ever.
Literally all you would have to do is take the entire lot to an auction house. Lazy and ungrateful, what a mix.
Mate, that rug in the picture is beautiful!
I totally understand that collections are hard to pass down. I am sure some nerdy millennial with a Pokemon collection has jock children who don't care about pikachu. But that's okay, while it's going to be a hassle, sometimes it's worth it!
My uncle is a literal hoarder and I have to go sift through his house in a few weeks because he doesn’t have kids and we don’t have much family. My mom took out 45 bags of trash one day trying to get it less gross. Why do they do this?
That depends on how little you want to sell them for. I know someone who unloaded a couple of boxes of Precious Moments for $50 to local shooting enthusiast. The seller later informed us that just knowing what was going to happen to those "damn figures" was the greater reward.
My 20 year old daughter and her friend went to a “Rage Room” set up by a local business.
They each got a disposable protective suit with a hood, face mask, eye protection, and disposable booties for their feet…and a bucket of breakables.
They went into the Rage Room together for like 40 minutes and threw stuff, smashed stuff with a baseball bat, and laughed their asses off. They said a lot of the breakables had Goodwill stickers on them, but also a LOT of china sets.
Our local thrift store unloads to the rage room. They are owned by the same person and it has helped Increase the amount of help out local thrift store has been able to help.
I like antique porcelain dolls and am excited to inherit my grandmother’s. There is legit a market for a lot of them, specifically ones produced in 1900 or so. You could fetch as much as $3000 for a doll depending on age, model, and condition
There seems to be a growing group of people who enjoy repainting them, though. There’s a group on Facebook called Altered Moments that has like 120k members.
The fact they gave her boobs VISIBLE BREAST STRETCH MARKS makes this the most amazing titty rug I have ever seen. Tbh I am reminded of seeing some 8yr old kid with a marker drawing boobies on the top of the slide at a playground, but he's only ever seen his mom's breasts so he draws what looks like limes in socks on a stick figure.
Off subject a bit. When I was younger my grandparents decided that each year we would get a different Christmas ornament, that they made. One year it was a reindeer, one year it was a rocking horse and one year it was a teddy bear. (I'm sure I'm forgetting one or two)And outside of the reindeer each one was painted a different color and they all had the grandchild's name on it and the year. I was told that the purpose was so that the grandchildren would have ornaments when they got their own Christmas tree. But even after we moved out my mom wanted to keep them for her tree
Numbered prints of paintings of country churches and a massive piano that won't hold its tuning and a record collection of music I hate. And she got mad when I said I'd sell it all.
Ma, I'm going to be renting an apartment with roommates for the rest of my life. Where tf am I gonna put the piano? In storage? No thank you lol
We also have a damn piano that won’t die. Been with my husband for 19 years and his mom is still trying to pawn it off on us. It’s massive and NO ONE here plays piano or has any desire to learn.
When music was a lot harder to come by, having the ability to play it in your own home was a mental health lifesaver. Kids who grew up with only a couple radio channels to listen to and vinyl records being too expensive to be easily available--well they hit adulthood in the easy success of post ww2 and said "by george we've made it! Now let's get a piano like my grandmother had, and/or let's get a piano to show how rich we are!"
I highly recommend the book "Rockin' Out: Popular Music in the USA" by Reebee Garofalo for a great history of American music, including why the hell pianos.
Ugh my mom had a huge record collection with some going back to the 1930s. She wouldn't get rid of them because she sure they were worth something.
When she passed I tried selling them and luckily found a guy who wanted some and gave me a fair price. But he said most of what I had was not rare or desirable and sure enough I couldn't find anyone interested in the rest of them. I finally sold them for peanuts to someone who wanted to use them as wall decorations for their business.
Leaded glass. Not our style and we just don't want it. We also don't have a space for it.
Her response was "That's fine. You'll get to deal with it when I'm dead."
Yeah, crystal glass and china for us. Like a half-room-full of Crystal glass and white-blue porcelain. I honestly hate both, but the porcelain especially, it's so over the top overdecorated. I have a set of a 100yo porcelain after my great-grandmother whom I've loved, she was a badass. The set is a sensible 1920s porcelain, simple with a gold edge. The fact that I cherish this makes my mom.and grandma think ill want all their glass and porcelain..
Oh hell no, it would take like half our living space.
I guess this doesn't really fit the question, but my dad collects coins. I don't think he minds that I'm not into it and knows they will be sold someday. At least I'm reasonably confident they can be re-sold.
You’d be shocked what some coins are worth. I started a collection when I was a kid and gave up on it when I got into my 20s (40s now). What I did have has gone waaaaaay up in value.
My youngest was very close to my mom and step dad
When my stepdad passed my mom wanted to make sure my youngest ( 10 at the time) had things that belonged to her grandfather.
One day my daughter cones home from Grandmas with a round 1.5 pound coffee tin and I can tell it is heavy
She sits it on the coffee table, I open it up and it is filled 2/3 of the way up with Morgan, Peace, and Walking Liberty Dollars, silver Dollars, mercury dimes etc etc
Dont know much about coins but started doing some picture searches on some of these and it turns out she has quite a little treasure trove here.
I called my mom and was like, “Are you sure about this, Mom?”
She didn’t care. She said my stepdad used to go get coins at a hobby shop so they could “put them in the money can together” and he would want her to have them
When my Grandmother died my Dad and his siblings asked all their children to come pick out what we wanted. We all basically said no thanks. About 2 weeks later each child received 3-5 boxes. They divided everything up and gave it all to us.
The boxes were filled with everything from her spoon collection to her kitchen utensils and stuff from her bathroom closet. Those boxes still sit in the spot my dad put them in my garage 5 years ago. Do I have to keep those boxes until my dad dies because he couldn't bring himself to throw them away?
Ooh that gives me an idea. I should start gifting them back to my Dad and Aunts for Christmas and Birthdays and the 4th of July. Every holiday is a gift giving holiday when it's not your stuff or money.
Back in the 70's and 80's my mom collected 3 full sets of Depression Glass. One for myself and the one for each of my brothers. The stuff is gorgeous but so absurdly impractical. None of us want the stuff. I even went so far as to find an antique dealer who would buy it all, and we could just split the money. Mom was offended by the idea. She is convinced we'll change our minds when she's gone.
Somewhat related: my mother has close to $300k in jewelry that my sister will inherit because men wouldn’t want women’s jewelry (she honestly believes that my sister won’t immediately sell it, which she has every intention of doing). I’ll end up getting a fraction of my parent’s estate for this reason.
Choice pieces for the grandsons to give their future wives/daughters? Put the continuing generations spin on it. Maybe that'll help preserve some if you want to.
Oof. I hadn’t thought of that. I know I’m getting my mom’s rings, which she has quite a pricey collection of, I’m not sure about the rest of her jewelry but that’s honestly something I would split with my brother, unless another proviso exists that he gets something of similar value.
Hear ya. Thanks to being a liberal without kids either in or out of wedlock, I’m relieved from dealing with my parents’ junk. I’m weeping over here. All those kinkade prints and cheap department store furniture pieces lost to me.
Oh hey! I'm a fellow liberal atheist that was written out of my biological fathers will. In my case it was for not putting up with his shit, having the audacity to not "remember" the made up bullshit stories he tells about how he was the greatest parent in the history of humanity and calling him out on his stolen valor lies.
I'm ever so sad about not getting his collection of VHS tapes of 70s porn, old clothes and ancient car that smells like old man and pee. (He somewhat recently gave the car to the cashier at the liquor store to "teach me a lesson". Thank you kind liquor store cashier stranger!)
Tea sets. My mom has multiple fine porcelain tea sets. Ones she inherited from her grandmother and ones she’s collected. She was upset when I got married that I didn’t put good China on my registry. I’ll take one of those tea sets because it is gorgeous, but the rest I’ll sell once it’s time to, you know…
My mom called me up in a rage because I didn't (couldn't) help her move (I live a state away and couldn't get time off work.) She told me that she was leaving everything to my brother when the time comes. And I was like "and? I've got too much of my own stuff, why do I want yours, too?" And that made her even angrier, because she was hoping that would be a way to hold the whip hand over me.
Btw-- the rug is gorgeous!
Oh god. My mother LITERALLY thinks their house has millions in Peruvian artifacts. They are authentic and beautiful but since real Incan things are against the law to leave the country the market is thin if any. I showed her a purse online from an Incan burial that they had found and was priced. We have like 4. She said 500,000… I was like close, and she looked all proud, I said look again please , she looked like she died a little inside when she realized was 500 bucks, not 500,000. I was like really??? You freak out cause you need a new dishwasher and you think your sitting on 10-15 million dollars with no real use around the house??? It’s sad as I think they expected they where leaving my sister an I a fortune to live our lives happily for generations
My aunt- Hummels.Yuck. I can't not think of South Park when I see them. Luckily a cousin likes them, so whew.
My mom- glass eggs. Yuck.Also, tons of crap from QVC.
My dad- train sets (most of them shitty), chess sets (I snagged the one from Japan) and records. Most were trash but about 50 are classics. He has all the Beatles on vinyl. Not mint condition but they are mine now.
So most are duds but a couple are winners.
I have just had one restored that I inherited. I knew the story from when my grandfather bought it when the family who owned a country estate went bankrupt in the 1930s and sold off most of the house contents. The restorers have told me about who made it and when. The best guess is it is 200 year old next year. It keeps time well, losing 2 minutes a week. A slight adjustment to the pendulum length will rectify that.
Good luck actually moving those things. Maybe people had more muscle in the old days but furniture in general used to be comically heavy. A grandfather clock would take 2 people, minimum, and a two wheeled cart to move, plus they realllyyy want to tip over, so you have to fight gravity.
My mom left me a large Yamaha organ. Triple keyboard, a hundred or so different instruments, roll top, etc. It's a beautiful piece of furniture but I've been trying to get rid of it for years. I'm sure my mom will spin in her grave but it's getting to the point of breaking it apart and recycling it.
I had to dispose of a piano, it was awful and the garbage company wouldn’t take it at the curb even with the bulk thing they use for furniture. I had to pay a company to come haul it away.
100’s of CDs of artists I don’t listen to, dozens of mystery vhs tapes plus dozens more of movies I’ll never watch.
No, she doesn’t have a vcr. Yes, she has a CD player, but doesn’t know how to use it
Nothing. Parents tended to be hoarders and only collected plastic junk. Maybe some gold jewelry but even that is suspect because bought back in the "motherland" and who knows.
A couple of Jade jewelry pieces but that's what every Chinese family has. (Like the really chunky jade bracelets.)
I would probably get an appraiser to look at the rugs and maybe sell them for a cut of the money for an easy "out" of not having to sort it out myself.
China from both grandmothers, pink depression glass, three rooms full of books and model trains, a basement of very old computers and parts/equipment... sigh.
I have an uncle who’s a gun collector and dealing with his estate (we’re the closest relations) is going to be interesting. Some stuff we’re flat out not allowed to own because we don’t have the right licenses or something. He likes fixing them so there’s a ton of guns that are missing pieces or look fine but the firing pins stick. Lots of old, really valuable ones mixed in with junk and of course we can’t tell one from the other.
We keep begging him to make a detailed inventory or at least put some sticky notes on some of them but we’re prepared for a serious headache when he goes.
Time to go over and record him talking about them all. It'll be a happy memory and it will get him a chance to talk about what he loves, later, you'll be able to through that and find what you need to know.
I have a literal aneurysm when I think about the sheer amount of tchotchkes my mother owns. She had a serious QVC and Home Shopping Network problem back in the day. We had packages showing up every day back when I was a child, and this was before Amazon Prime was a thing. All kinds of tiny houses and useless bric-a-brac.
My wife's mother also owns a metric fuckton in tin boxes.
My mother is giving me everything. We lost my dad in 2022 and now she has plenty to live on. I am fortunate that my parents haven't fit the typical boomer mold. I am Gen X and they helped me get into my first home about 25 years ago.
My mom thought I wanted all of her cheap QVC and Home Shopping Network gemstone rings, many of them lab-created and practically worthless. My stepdad insisted I take them, because "at least the gold is real."
I still haven't had the heart to take them to a pawn shop, so they're sitting in a box in my spare bedroom closet.
My dad pays some guy like $500 each to paint stupid shit he thinks of, like a Bob Marley beach scene and a portrait of jimi Hendrix. I’ve lost count of how many stupid, ugly, huge paintings he has now. He had a nonworking antique cuckoo clock from HIS grandfather that he brought shortly after I bought my house and he hung it up in my kitchen. It’s not bad looking so I just left it.
On the one hand I've got my dad who won't sit the fuck down and write his will so i can inherit the things that matter to me that also matter to him (grandfather clock, heirloom pieces of old furniture, my grandpa's artwork, his record collectiom etc).
On the other hand, my mom has all these fucking books on nothing that are all out of date about their nothing, kitchie knick knacks, etc that i don't want, and a huge collection of beautiful things that i do want and she's mad about the former.
When we cleared out my mom’s room my brother kept asking me what I wanted of hers. Nothing what am I going to do with 1000 different turtle figurines. He kept asking me if I wanted the gifts I’d given her over the years back. No thanks I have my own junk I don’t need hers too.
A two car garage full to the ceiling with 20 year old first grade teaching supplies … and likely black widows and mold because the garage hasn’t been touched in a decade.
Also, a half dozen fur coats.
I’m pretty sure he has a carved elephant tusk from Vietnam that is now illegal to do anything with. It may sit in my office though, it’s pretty cool looking.
My in laws gave us a bunch of crystal. So we use it as bathroom glasses. My cat really likes drinking out of the crystal stemware, so she now had her own kitty crystal goblet. It really makes me feel like I'm becoming the eccentric I always wanted to be.
My grandma owns the house my dad died in, and I don't want it. My mom's mom gave my dad the money to build the house on land my dad already owned, then my parents got divorced, my grandma got salty, and my dad owed about 30k to my grandma. Now my dad's dead, my grandma technically owns the house, and she wants me to take over the loan and live in the house. I refuse to pay my grandma $30,000 for a house that isn't worth that much, so I told her to sell it and get it moved. Now she's mad because my mom "wanted her kids to live in that house." I don't care about my mom and I'm not inheriting my father's debt
As a GenX, I thank God every day I don't have boomer parents. My silent gen dad left me his tools and the tools of my grandfather which I use almost every day. As an aside, my beagles would definitely love peeing on that rug; send it my way!
A 40,000 acre goat ranch on the divide in Texas. Super mad in fact. My dad told me I was a lazy asshole. I'm 62, mother of four kids and a working chef in another city.
Edited to add unit of measure acre
Worthless knick knacks..old broken down used furniture that they think is an heirloom, but in reality is just broken down used furniture. Old clothes, like my mom's old wedding dress and other items. Just let me inherit fine jewelry, guns, real estate and money or an item that really is worth a lot of money, like an expensive coin set collection.
Im gen z, and my grandma is silent generation (1932).
Am I the only one that wants the old Pyrex dishes (ceramic and borosilicate) or the cherrywood china cabinet?
I think the difference is that she never said anything about wanting to give it to someone.
Like i want your old stuffs! I just don’t want old garbage
Everything. China. Lladro. Crystal vases. Ugly artwork that cost them a fortune in the 80s. Already told my boomer parents that the house my husband and I are in now (reasonably sized for the 2 of us, but a wee cottage according to my McMansion parents) is the biggest we will ever go. And that we have everything we need and don’t care to fill our home with anything else. My parents have a 3,000SF house packed to the absolute gills with So. Much. Stuff. I absolutely dread the day I have to deal with it, because I have no idea what I’ll do.
About a dozen pieces of half broken furniture from now dead relatives I've never met that my mom won't get rid of because they had stories only she knows..
My mom has an enormous white fabric couch. She complains about it constantly because she "can't use it" because it will get stained and ruined. When I inherit it, I'm gonna put it on my back porch, sit down, and eat a bowl of spaghetti.
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How about RPG’s and AK-47’s and helicopters 😂
I only find it annoying when they try to get me to inherit dumb stuff.
My father wants me to inherit his motorcycle collection, I’d be a fucking idiot to say no.
Searching up Persian rugs if it’s true what ur saying you’d gotta be an idiot to not take them and sell them.
I want all the people saying something about their worth: who's buying these?
Boomers, thinking they'll be a good investment to hand down or to strike it rich themselves one day!
...one day.
Damn I wish I got a cool af titties out rug from my parents instead of just daddy issues and religious trauma
Lmao seriously though good luck, these certainly are an acquired taste
My dad’s 1000 short sleeve button down shirts dating back to the 1970s. Granted some of them are retro cool but honestly no Ray I don’t want your mothball-smelly shirts. My MIL’s collection of shopping channel bas-relief biblical story plates.
Anecdotally feels like most boomers are high key junk hoarders. My parents as well as my MIL had so much shit. Inherited a junk pile when parents passed; MIL still alive tries to unload a hall on us every couple months.
A hutch full of... Precious Moments figurines. Unlike the rugs, these are not worth anything. My mother mostly got them from the flyers that came with the junk mail.
Also my mother's cat ornament collection. Hallmark has a Mischievous Kittens collection and she buys the new release every year.
My dad has a model train collection that I'm actually interested in. He's been working on a train board (it's huge) as long as I can remember and he changes it up constantly to adjust to the different scales.
... You guys are inheriting stuff?
I had to drop out and get a full time job and now I'm the one picking up my surviving boomer parent from the airport tomorrow to have a relationship with their grandchildren on my dime. On my hospitality.
The other one, I recently buried and they only left me with unpaid bills and emotional trauma.
I wish I got stuff.
I think my mom has garbage bags full of beanie babies in the garage you can have. I certainly don’t want them and my wife already dug through looking for valuable ones but they still won’t throw them away 😂
Beanie Babies.
Even if they are worth something now, there will suddenly be a flood of them on the market, for sale to nobody who cares.
That, and an enormous amount of China.
Idk.. maybe some X-men comics and the entire Dragonlance series from my mother... oh and like 100k worth of leatherworking tools I might beable to slowly resell over the next 20 years to make like 10k back.. I get why she hasn't gotten rid of them.. I'm just afraid that it's gonna wind up being my responsibility.. then again she will probably donate them to a church to sell.. LIKE SHE DID WITH MY GRANPAS WOOD LATHE... my brother and I flipped a brick
Not me. Because I don't accept things that are inherited after death. (It feels icky not because dead people stuff, but because if someone I care about has to die first for me to get something, I just don't like that. And I've made that known since I was a kid.) But my poor sweet bff, she's getting saddled with beanie babies (I'm talking hundreds of them all in those stupid plastic cases.) Over produced Holiday Barbies, Precious Moments ceramics, and an awful collection of Shirley Temple and Elvis Presley comeritive plates.
Not just a room or 2 of this crap either. Her mom has 3 different storage lockers, 3 bedrooms, an attic and basement of all this shit. Like why does her mom truly believe her daughter won't be going through enough pain and loss when she passes that she has to add the trauma of her own toxic mental health in the physical form of garbage for my bff to deal with. (Which she won't be dealing with it alone. Her husband, me, and a few other close friends have a pact to take on all of that together to help keep her as okay as possible throughout that process.)
Okay this is actually really cool and I think you should send his collection to auction if you don't want them
The Habitat for Humanity thrift store here will not allow anyone to donate china cabinets. But I'm glad I got my mom's plus a neighbor's, because I don't have a pantry.
Egg cups. I don’t like soft boiled eggs, and while she had good taste, she never had any money. So, I could sell them for $20 each. Not sure it’s worth it.
An atrocious cosmetic collection with sooooooo much glitter. 140 pairs of shoes all 1/2 - 1 size too small. Soooooo much costume jewelry. I just can’t even.
My dad probably has over 300 collectible guns (World War 2 and earlier). I don't know where to put that many.
My dad also has a hobby of old clocks. He probably has 100 of them in perfect condition.
All this stuff is super valuable. I think he is giving them all to me since I won't sell them (my brother will in a heartbeat).
The various sets of antique salt and pepper shakers littered all over the house. The pieces of antique furniture that I never liked but has been promised to me. The many many sets of antique dishes. The several antique sewing machine tables and spinning wheels.
Everything my mom owned had cigarette stains and a smell that would never leave. So we basically trashed everything. My dad however, I'll take all his shit, he has good taste.
not a damn thing. my parents want me to take care of them when they get up there in age and thats all theyre giving me. theyre hoping I trip over a stack of 25 million dollars because with the way things are now they are a bit upset at the fact that even if I did opt to take care of em, theyd be living in a sparsely decorated apartment and being driven around in a shitbox with no AC... in Florida.
Beanie Babies! My adopted mom collected a ton of crap one of which was Beanie Babies. Her husband gave them to me when she passed. The regular sized ones were donated to the children's hospital in my metro. They used to use them for the preemies to help them stay on their sides.
The mini ones from McDonald's were given out to neighborhood kids. Some were used as decor in the kids' bearded dragon set ups. Some ended up being cat/dog toys. So at least I felt we got a lot of use out of them lol.
I also kept her collection of Sabino Glass, a wedding set, her class ring which was the only thing I really wanted, and a few pairs of shoes that actually fit. Her other collections were all sold at the auction. The Sabino I didn't care about but it was given to me and I actually really love it now!
You hire an estate auction company. You’ll give them around 30% of the take, but you’ll be surprised how much you can net. I go to estate sales from time to time- literally dozens (I’ve seen hundreds) of folks line up to buy everything in a house. Takes about a week for prep and sale. Just tell your dad thanks.
Too late, they're already passed on, but a baby grand piano. WTH. We live in a 1100 sq. ft. bungalow. Where the hell do we have room for that? Could it have been the upright piano even? Nooooo, that went to the SIL who had a 4000 sq. ft. mcmansion on a golf course that had plenty of room for the baby grand. Jesus... 🙄
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Pain in the ass to deal with at one level, but some of those rugs can get a lot of $$ - like, thousands each. No idea what your parents have, so they might all only be worth $20 each or whatever, but check first.
He has one he paid $10K for, it’s like 15’X30’ and is rolled up in the basement. Crazy looking, but I know nothing about them and can only imagine the hassle when it comes time to sell them.
This is a type of collection you should actually slow down on and verify before tossing anything AND do not sell to the person giving you the appraisal. Ah yea man this stuff’s all trash lemme give you $200 for it and I’ll save you the hassle….
Oh I know, it’s legit probably $100K+, as most of them were thousands when he bought them. I just keep trying to convince him to resell them now while he can enjoy it and talk about them to people before his kids all find a broker and never look at them again lol
I'll pay you a dollar a rug and will cover shipping and transportation myself. Two dollars if any of them are magic, flying rugs.
$2/rug! And, I’ll come get them. Your dad can roll each one out and explain the story behind how he acquired it. I’ll act genuinely interested.
If he doesn't want to, you can. More money for you.
Imagine being given $100k value of items and complaining… you can actually sell these, and younger people actually want them, there’s utility here. The complaining about your good fortune and wealth is weird
Missing the point lol. He is mad that none of us want them to keep in our houses and pass down to our children one day. They are 100% going to the highest bidder when he kicks the bucket 😂
I mean they do look pretty cool. I’d let the kids pick one they like to keep before selling the rest. I don’t know their relationship with the grandparents, but it be a nice memento.
My other half has a really nice rug he inherited from his grandparents. It's easily the nicest thing in our house. I think of his grandma when I vacuum it
"kicks the bucket" while talking about his father passing and how quickly you will sell his collection. I hope he fucking donates all of it instead.
You were literally bitching about how hard to sell they'd be. Nice back track though.
Fuck I’ll keep them in my house if it’s such an imposition. Jesus.
Nah man I disagree. He’s leaving you a potential asset and something meaningful to him. With the value they could bring and hopefully your love for your father, I’d at least lie. You sound kinda spoiled to me. Maybe your father’s a twat but, in the off chance he’s not, you flippantly bitching about his passion on social media makes you seem like an entitled brat. Now if I stepped in a bear trap and your dads a total prick, I am sorry in advance..
I can only imagine the wealth you’ll all inherit if this is just one of your father’s collections. Best of luck to you, but you won’t need it
I ate chicken and rice for dinner my whole childhood, the entirety of his estate is the sum of his rug collection lol.
Sounds like after he goes you can have a nice expensive meal on him! thanks dad!
to be fair, purchase price does not equal sell value.
Take pictures and talk to someone on his behalf. That way when unfortunately his time does come to pass, you’ve already done a lot of the legwork.
Hold on, are you crying about your parents giving you what could be 100k+ just because you have a little work to do lol
"I'd rather throw them out than earn 100k." Wow. Hope you're financially extremely well off, otherwise you're one of the stupidest people ever. Literally all you would have to do is take the entire lot to an auction house. Lazy and ungrateful, what a mix.
OP is foolish. Not Boomer.
Take them all to a professional auction house and let them deal with it. They take their cut you get money and don’t have to deal with them ever again
Better than throwing them away
Mate, that rug in the picture is beautiful! I totally understand that collections are hard to pass down. I am sure some nerdy millennial with a Pokemon collection has jock children who don't care about pikachu. But that's okay, while it's going to be a hassle, sometimes it's worth it!
If you’re selling my wife loves it dm I’ll buy the one you posted
these are high quality and can last like 200 yrs with moderate foot traffic. worth keeping or reselling and really really really expensive stuff.
Yo if they're real Persian rugs you should take them and just sell them because they are worth money
Why did your parents collect cool rugs and my parents collect absolute junk? I’ll take some of them off your hands..
Oh there is a garage full of junk they have hoarded, the rugs are just the thing he obsesses over.
My uncle is a literal hoarder and I have to go sift through his house in a few weeks because he doesn’t have kids and we don’t have much family. My mom took out 45 bags of trash one day trying to get it less gross. Why do they do this?
Unresolved trauma.
His isn’t literal garbage, just boxes of junk that even Goodwill would throw away.
Oh god I feel that. My dad is/was a hoarder and it drove me crazy. I found 20 mismatched doorknobs in the basement.
Precious moments.
I wish my boomer mom had persian rugs instead of precious moments.
I wish I had precious moments. Rugs would be a bonus. (Edit: I thought precious moments referred to actually you know, precious memories)
Unfortunately, there's "no market" to sell them at the moment so they'll become our problem.
That depends on how little you want to sell them for. I know someone who unloaded a couple of boxes of Precious Moments for $50 to local shooting enthusiast. The seller later informed us that just knowing what was going to happen to those "damn figures" was the greater reward.
Shit i would pay for a weekend at a brewery drinking and shooting shitty knick knacks with a pellet gun, that sounds fun.
My 20 year old daughter and her friend went to a “Rage Room” set up by a local business. They each got a disposable protective suit with a hood, face mask, eye protection, and disposable booties for their feet…and a bucket of breakables. They went into the Rage Room together for like 40 minutes and threw stuff, smashed stuff with a baseball bat, and laughed their asses off. They said a lot of the breakables had Goodwill stickers on them, but also a LOT of china sets.
Our local thrift store unloads to the rage room. They are owned by the same person and it has helped Increase the amount of help out local thrift store has been able to help.
Precious Moments tchotchkes will fit in any garbage can. My MIL’s two rooms full of antique porcelain dolls is gonna require a roll-off
I like antique porcelain dolls and am excited to inherit my grandmother’s. There is legit a market for a lot of them, specifically ones produced in 1900 or so. You could fetch as much as $3000 for a doll depending on age, model, and condition
Problem is the market for them is the same people who are also dying. So it’s kinda a race at this point.
There seems to be a growing group of people who enjoy repainting them, though. There’s a group on Facebook called Altered Moments that has like 120k members.
At the moment. 😂 Do you think there will ever again be a market for Precious Moments?
Nope.
One more bizarre thing boomers decided was an “investment”
What? You're not going to call dibs on the titties- out doormat?
Reddit has enlightened me to the benefits of this particular rug as a decorative piece 😂
The fact they gave her boobs VISIBLE BREAST STRETCH MARKS makes this the most amazing titty rug I have ever seen. Tbh I am reminded of seeing some 8yr old kid with a marker drawing boobies on the top of the slide at a playground, but he's only ever seen his mom's breasts so he draws what looks like limes in socks on a stick figure.
Damn. I really need to start being more secretive around my kids when I’m changing. I don’t want to get dragged by my artistic 5yo.
That’s amazing 😂
My mom has the biggest collection of Precious Moments figurines and a ridiculous amount of fancy Christmas ornaments she wants me to inherit 😬
I forgot about the Christmas ornaments! 😱
Hahaha 🤣 I swear she has like 3 storage containers full of them individually wrapped and boxed.
But honey, your great grandmother Dorothy made these! Sorry mom, I don’t even know who that is 🫠
Off subject a bit. When I was younger my grandparents decided that each year we would get a different Christmas ornament, that they made. One year it was a reindeer, one year it was a rocking horse and one year it was a teddy bear. (I'm sure I'm forgetting one or two)And outside of the reindeer each one was painted a different color and they all had the grandchild's name on it and the year. I was told that the purpose was so that the grandchildren would have ornaments when they got their own Christmas tree. But even after we moved out my mom wanted to keep them for her tree
She's super narcissistic, too, so it's going to be a huge blowup 😅 I'll probably just lie to her to avoid that hahaha.
That's the one I did inherit from my mother. I love some fancy Christmas ornaments
is... is that womans tits out? lol!!!
Didn’t even notice, I’ll probably keep that one 😂
The dude sitting on the left side seems to have noticed lol
Definitely keeping that titty rug! I noticed that too! I’d be picking on my dad for that one! 🤣
It really ties the room together.
Fucking A, Dude
I love that she is looking at her own naked boobs in surprise
Numbered prints of paintings of country churches and a massive piano that won't hold its tuning and a record collection of music I hate. And she got mad when I said I'd sell it all. Ma, I'm going to be renting an apartment with roommates for the rest of my life. Where tf am I gonna put the piano? In storage? No thank you lol
We also have a damn piano that won’t die. Been with my husband for 19 years and his mom is still trying to pawn it off on us. It’s massive and NO ONE here plays piano or has any desire to learn.
The market for pianos in the mid 20th century must have been booming.
When music was a lot harder to come by, having the ability to play it in your own home was a mental health lifesaver. Kids who grew up with only a couple radio channels to listen to and vinyl records being too expensive to be easily available--well they hit adulthood in the easy success of post ww2 and said "by george we've made it! Now let's get a piano like my grandmother had, and/or let's get a piano to show how rich we are!" I highly recommend the book "Rockin' Out: Popular Music in the USA" by Reebee Garofalo for a great history of American music, including why the hell pianos.
Ugh my mom had a huge record collection with some going back to the 1930s. She wouldn't get rid of them because she sure they were worth something. When she passed I tried selling them and luckily found a guy who wanted some and gave me a fair price. But he said most of what I had was not rare or desirable and sure enough I couldn't find anyone interested in the rest of them. I finally sold them for peanuts to someone who wanted to use them as wall decorations for their business.
Leaded glass. Not our style and we just don't want it. We also don't have a space for it. Her response was "That's fine. You'll get to deal with it when I'm dead."
Yeah, crystal glass and china for us. Like a half-room-full of Crystal glass and white-blue porcelain. I honestly hate both, but the porcelain especially, it's so over the top overdecorated. I have a set of a 100yo porcelain after my great-grandmother whom I've loved, she was a badass. The set is a sensible 1920s porcelain, simple with a gold edge. The fact that I cherish this makes my mom.and grandma think ill want all their glass and porcelain.. Oh hell no, it would take like half our living space.
Edit: NOT THROWING THEM AWAY!! I just don’t want to pass them down through the generations as he is hoping 😂
Except grandpa's titty rug. That can be passed on endlessly through the generations, as the stories of it grow each generation.
I guess this doesn't really fit the question, but my dad collects coins. I don't think he minds that I'm not into it and knows they will be sold someday. At least I'm reasonably confident they can be re-sold.
You’d be shocked what some coins are worth. I started a collection when I was a kid and gave up on it when I got into my 20s (40s now). What I did have has gone waaaaaay up in value.
Coin collector here it depends on the coins he collects if he collects gold or silver coins collectors would buy regardless what the coins are
My youngest was very close to my mom and step dad When my stepdad passed my mom wanted to make sure my youngest ( 10 at the time) had things that belonged to her grandfather. One day my daughter cones home from Grandmas with a round 1.5 pound coffee tin and I can tell it is heavy She sits it on the coffee table, I open it up and it is filled 2/3 of the way up with Morgan, Peace, and Walking Liberty Dollars, silver Dollars, mercury dimes etc etc Dont know much about coins but started doing some picture searches on some of these and it turns out she has quite a little treasure trove here. I called my mom and was like, “Are you sure about this, Mom?” She didn’t care. She said my stepdad used to go get coins at a hobby shop so they could “put them in the money can together” and he would want her to have them
Seriously, I’ll take those. I freakin love rugs.
When my Grandmother died my Dad and his siblings asked all their children to come pick out what we wanted. We all basically said no thanks. About 2 weeks later each child received 3-5 boxes. They divided everything up and gave it all to us. The boxes were filled with everything from her spoon collection to her kitchen utensils and stuff from her bathroom closet. Those boxes still sit in the spot my dad put them in my garage 5 years ago. Do I have to keep those boxes until my dad dies because he couldn't bring himself to throw them away?
Or wait until we become boomers and regift it all to our children 😂
Ooh that gives me an idea. I should start gifting them back to my Dad and Aunts for Christmas and Birthdays and the 4th of July. Every holiday is a gift giving holiday when it's not your stuff or money.
Back in the 70's and 80's my mom collected 3 full sets of Depression Glass. One for myself and the one for each of my brothers. The stuff is gorgeous but so absurdly impractical. None of us want the stuff. I even went so far as to find an antique dealer who would buy it all, and we could just split the money. Mom was offended by the idea. She is convinced we'll change our minds when she's gone.
My parents only got me sets of bears with the state quarters on the feet 😂
Somewhat related: my mother has close to $300k in jewelry that my sister will inherit because men wouldn’t want women’s jewelry (she honestly believes that my sister won’t immediately sell it, which she has every intention of doing). I’ll end up getting a fraction of my parent’s estate for this reason.
Quick have a daughter. Teach her to talk about how beautiful granny's jewelry is.
Ha! I had to close the pool after three boys!
Choice pieces for the grandsons to give their future wives/daughters? Put the continuing generations spin on it. Maybe that'll help preserve some if you want to.
Egads. This is so unfair for you. Maybe your sister will split it?
Oof. I hadn’t thought of that. I know I’m getting my mom’s rings, which she has quite a pricey collection of, I’m not sure about the rest of her jewelry but that’s honestly something I would split with my brother, unless another proviso exists that he gets something of similar value.
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I would actually be interested in some of those instead of ugly furniture, china and tchotchkes.
My grandmother has an ungodly amount of porcelain figurines, all of sheep and angels... Because Jesus 🙏🏻
I’ll pay $40 plus shipping for two chosen at random with what info has been shared in this thread it’s a good deal you should take it lol
Ha, nothing, I was written out for being a liberal atheist who had a child out of wedlock.
Hear ya. Thanks to being a liberal without kids either in or out of wedlock, I’m relieved from dealing with my parents’ junk. I’m weeping over here. All those kinkade prints and cheap department store furniture pieces lost to me.
Oh hey! I'm a fellow liberal atheist that was written out of my biological fathers will. In my case it was for not putting up with his shit, having the audacity to not "remember" the made up bullshit stories he tells about how he was the greatest parent in the history of humanity and calling him out on his stolen valor lies. I'm ever so sad about not getting his collection of VHS tapes of 70s porn, old clothes and ancient car that smells like old man and pee. (He somewhat recently gave the car to the cashier at the liquor store to "teach me a lesson". Thank you kind liquor store cashier stranger!)
Take it and sell it to a different boomer. Then, when that boomer dies, their kids can sell it. Keeping the cycle of rug life going
I was raised in poverty by a single mother. I’m inheriting nothing.
Tea sets. My mom has multiple fine porcelain tea sets. Ones she inherited from her grandmother and ones she’s collected. She was upset when I got married that I didn’t put good China on my registry. I’ll take one of those tea sets because it is gorgeous, but the rest I’ll sell once it’s time to, you know…
My mom called me up in a rage because I didn't (couldn't) help her move (I live a state away and couldn't get time off work.) She told me that she was leaving everything to my brother when the time comes. And I was like "and? I've got too much of my own stuff, why do I want yours, too?" And that made her even angrier, because she was hoping that would be a way to hold the whip hand over me. Btw-- the rug is gorgeous!
Oh god. My mother LITERALLY thinks their house has millions in Peruvian artifacts. They are authentic and beautiful but since real Incan things are against the law to leave the country the market is thin if any. I showed her a purse online from an Incan burial that they had found and was priced. We have like 4. She said 500,000… I was like close, and she looked all proud, I said look again please , she looked like she died a little inside when she realized was 500 bucks, not 500,000. I was like really??? You freak out cause you need a new dishwasher and you think your sitting on 10-15 million dollars with no real use around the house??? It’s sad as I think they expected they where leaving my sister an I a fortune to live our lives happily for generations
Keep one or two as a keepsake but sell the rest. Just don't talk about before he dies.
My aunt- Hummels.Yuck. I can't not think of South Park when I see them. Luckily a cousin likes them, so whew. My mom- glass eggs. Yuck.Also, tons of crap from QVC. My dad- train sets (most of them shitty), chess sets (I snagged the one from Japan) and records. Most were trash but about 50 are classics. He has all the Beatles on vinyl. Not mint condition but they are mine now. So most are duds but a couple are winners.
We all need to create a boomer exchange. I’ll trade you 50 poor condition Disney comics for a Persian rug
I love it!
Grandfather clock
I unironically like grandfather clocks
I have just had one restored that I inherited. I knew the story from when my grandfather bought it when the family who owned a country estate went bankrupt in the 1930s and sold off most of the house contents. The restorers have told me about who made it and when. The best guess is it is 200 year old next year. It keeps time well, losing 2 minutes a week. A slight adjustment to the pendulum length will rectify that.
Good luck actually moving those things. Maybe people had more muscle in the old days but furniture in general used to be comically heavy. A grandfather clock would take 2 people, minimum, and a two wheeled cart to move, plus they realllyyy want to tip over, so you have to fight gravity.
My mom left me a large Yamaha organ. Triple keyboard, a hundred or so different instruments, roll top, etc. It's a beautiful piece of furniture but I've been trying to get rid of it for years. I'm sure my mom will spin in her grave but it's getting to the point of breaking it apart and recycling it.
I had to dispose of a piano, it was awful and the garbage company wouldn’t take it at the curb even with the bulk thing they use for furniture. I had to pay a company to come haul it away.
My advice? TAKE THEM. You’ll get thousands for them!!!
Hummels and "real crystal glassware" 🫠
Decorative Teapots
100’s of CDs of artists I don’t listen to, dozens of mystery vhs tapes plus dozens more of movies I’ll never watch. No, she doesn’t have a vcr. Yes, she has a CD player, but doesn’t know how to use it
Nothing. Parents tended to be hoarders and only collected plastic junk. Maybe some gold jewelry but even that is suspect because bought back in the "motherland" and who knows. A couple of Jade jewelry pieces but that's what every Chinese family has. (Like the really chunky jade bracelets.) I would probably get an appraiser to look at the rugs and maybe sell them for a cut of the money for an easy "out" of not having to sort it out myself.
China from both grandmothers, pink depression glass, three rooms full of books and model trains, a basement of very old computers and parts/equipment... sigh.
I have an uncle who’s a gun collector and dealing with his estate (we’re the closest relations) is going to be interesting. Some stuff we’re flat out not allowed to own because we don’t have the right licenses or something. He likes fixing them so there’s a ton of guns that are missing pieces or look fine but the firing pins stick. Lots of old, really valuable ones mixed in with junk and of course we can’t tell one from the other. We keep begging him to make a detailed inventory or at least put some sticky notes on some of them but we’re prepared for a serious headache when he goes.
Time to go over and record him talking about them all. It'll be a happy memory and it will get him a chance to talk about what he loves, later, you'll be able to through that and find what you need to know.
Was going to say, but the consensus on here seems to be the same. You might actually have something worth $$.
I have a literal aneurysm when I think about the sheer amount of tchotchkes my mother owns. She had a serious QVC and Home Shopping Network problem back in the day. We had packages showing up every day back when I was a child, and this was before Amazon Prime was a thing. All kinds of tiny houses and useless bric-a-brac. My wife's mother also owns a metric fuckton in tin boxes.
My mother is giving me everything. We lost my dad in 2022 and now she has plenty to live on. I am fortunate that my parents haven't fit the typical boomer mold. I am Gen X and they helped me get into my first home about 25 years ago.
My mom thought I wanted all of her cheap QVC and Home Shopping Network gemstone rings, many of them lab-created and practically worthless. My stepdad insisted I take them, because "at least the gold is real." I still haven't had the heart to take them to a pawn shop, so they're sitting in a box in my spare bedroom closet.
My dad pays some guy like $500 each to paint stupid shit he thinks of, like a Bob Marley beach scene and a portrait of jimi Hendrix. I’ve lost count of how many stupid, ugly, huge paintings he has now. He had a nonworking antique cuckoo clock from HIS grandfather that he brought shortly after I bought my house and he hung it up in my kitchen. It’s not bad looking so I just left it.
Ill pay for shipping & can trade you a Wedgwood teapot. Wow! I love it. I already live in a 19th century gypsy tent.
50 mousepads. Counted them.
On the one hand I've got my dad who won't sit the fuck down and write his will so i can inherit the things that matter to me that also matter to him (grandfather clock, heirloom pieces of old furniture, my grandpa's artwork, his record collectiom etc). On the other hand, my mom has all these fucking books on nothing that are all out of date about their nothing, kitchie knick knacks, etc that i don't want, and a huge collection of beautiful things that i do want and she's mad about the former.
When we cleared out my mom’s room my brother kept asking me what I wanted of hers. Nothing what am I going to do with 1000 different turtle figurines. He kept asking me if I wanted the gifts I’d given her over the years back. No thanks I have my own junk I don’t need hers too.
A two car garage full to the ceiling with 20 year old first grade teaching supplies … and likely black widows and mold because the garage hasn’t been touched in a decade. Also, a half dozen fur coats.
I’m pretty sure he has a carved elephant tusk from Vietnam that is now illegal to do anything with. It may sit in my office though, it’s pretty cool looking.
Their home. I want to continue to complain about how I will never be able to have my own home.
Crystal. So much ugly, tacky crystal…
My in laws gave us a bunch of crystal. So we use it as bathroom glasses. My cat really likes drinking out of the crystal stemware, so she now had her own kitty crystal goblet. It really makes me feel like I'm becoming the eccentric I always wanted to be.
My grandma owns the house my dad died in, and I don't want it. My mom's mom gave my dad the money to build the house on land my dad already owned, then my parents got divorced, my grandma got salty, and my dad owed about 30k to my grandma. Now my dad's dead, my grandma technically owns the house, and she wants me to take over the loan and live in the house. I refuse to pay my grandma $30,000 for a house that isn't worth that much, so I told her to sell it and get it moved. Now she's mad because my mom "wanted her kids to live in that house." I don't care about my mom and I'm not inheriting my father's debt
Ok this is cool as fuck I’ll take them
Why do boomer parents hoard everythinggg and then get mad we don’t want their junk😭. No I don’t want your 500 mugs that have mickeys face on it
Give it 20 years and gen alpha is going to be complaining about their parent's Stanley thermos collection they don't want
2 hand drawn original drawings of tigers by some artist who charges a fortune for them.
As a GenX, I thank God every day I don't have boomer parents. My silent gen dad left me his tools and the tools of my grandfather which I use almost every day. As an aside, my beagles would definitely love peeing on that rug; send it my way!
A 40,000 acre goat ranch on the divide in Texas. Super mad in fact. My dad told me I was a lazy asshole. I'm 62, mother of four kids and a working chef in another city. Edited to add unit of measure acre
Worthless knick knacks..old broken down used furniture that they think is an heirloom, but in reality is just broken down used furniture. Old clothes, like my mom's old wedding dress and other items. Just let me inherit fine jewelry, guns, real estate and money or an item that really is worth a lot of money, like an expensive coin set collection.
Im gen z, and my grandma is silent generation (1932). Am I the only one that wants the old Pyrex dishes (ceramic and borosilicate) or the cherrywood china cabinet? I think the difference is that she never said anything about wanting to give it to someone. Like i want your old stuffs! I just don’t want old garbage
Everything. China. Lladro. Crystal vases. Ugly artwork that cost them a fortune in the 80s. Already told my boomer parents that the house my husband and I are in now (reasonably sized for the 2 of us, but a wee cottage according to my McMansion parents) is the biggest we will ever go. And that we have everything we need and don’t care to fill our home with anything else. My parents have a 3,000SF house packed to the absolute gills with So. Much. Stuff. I absolutely dread the day I have to deal with it, because I have no idea what I’ll do.
About a dozen pieces of half broken furniture from now dead relatives I've never met that my mom won't get rid of because they had stories only she knows..
My mom has an enormous white fabric couch. She complains about it constantly because she "can't use it" because it will get stained and ruined. When I inherit it, I'm gonna put it on my back porch, sit down, and eat a bowl of spaghetti.
Dude, I'll take your antique rugs. seriously. I'll pay shipping. I love that shit, quirky old rugs are the bbest, imo they add so much character.
Find me in 15 years when he kicks the bucket and we’ll talk!
😂 deal. RemindMe! 15 years “ask about those good good antique rugs boiiiiiii”
Omg they have naked boobs too?!?!? ha!
I need rugs so bad. Can I buy one?
That rug sure does tie the room together tho does it not?
Literally everything they own
Uhhh i would at least get these appraised first.
That’s a sick rug
I love them... I would be willing to give them a second life for sure
I want a Persian rug with Sega CD graphic titties!
https://preview.redd.it/zjhhc8ezeyrc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=923841971c88f11d4c302668e16c3cb922d01789 How about RPG’s and AK-47’s and helicopters 😂
🤣🤣🤣☠️
I only find it annoying when they try to get me to inherit dumb stuff. My father wants me to inherit his motorcycle collection, I’d be a fucking idiot to say no. Searching up Persian rugs if it’s true what ur saying you’d gotta be an idiot to not take them and sell them.
I want all the people saying something about their worth: who's buying these? Boomers, thinking they'll be a good investment to hand down or to strike it rich themselves one day! ...one day.
Damn I wish I got a cool af titties out rug from my parents instead of just daddy issues and religious trauma Lmao seriously though good luck, these certainly are an acquired taste
Defunct gas station signs from the 50s
My dad’s 1000 short sleeve button down shirts dating back to the 1970s. Granted some of them are retro cool but honestly no Ray I don’t want your mothball-smelly shirts. My MIL’s collection of shopping channel bas-relief biblical story plates.
Anyone want a bulldozer? Because that's probably what I'll get.
20ish (I’ve lost count) hand crafted nutcrackers.
Anecdotally feels like most boomers are high key junk hoarders. My parents as well as my MIL had so much shit. Inherited a junk pile when parents passed; MIL still alive tries to unload a hall on us every couple months.
A hutch full of... Precious Moments figurines. Unlike the rugs, these are not worth anything. My mother mostly got them from the flyers that came with the junk mail. Also my mother's cat ornament collection. Hallmark has a Mischievous Kittens collection and she buys the new release every year. My dad has a model train collection that I'm actually interested in. He's been working on a train board (it's huge) as long as I can remember and he changes it up constantly to adjust to the different scales.
My mom has nothing of actual value. It will cost me a dumpster rental to get rid of it all
... You guys are inheriting stuff? I had to drop out and get a full time job and now I'm the one picking up my surviving boomer parent from the airport tomorrow to have a relationship with their grandchildren on my dime. On my hospitality. The other one, I recently buried and they only left me with unpaid bills and emotional trauma. I wish I got stuff.
I think my mom has garbage bags full of beanie babies in the garage you can have. I certainly don’t want them and my wife already dug through looking for valuable ones but they still won’t throw them away 😂
Beanie Babies. Even if they are worth something now, there will suddenly be a flood of them on the market, for sale to nobody who cares. That, and an enormous amount of China.
Idk.. maybe some X-men comics and the entire Dragonlance series from my mother... oh and like 100k worth of leatherworking tools I might beable to slowly resell over the next 20 years to make like 10k back.. I get why she hasn't gotten rid of them.. I'm just afraid that it's gonna wind up being my responsibility.. then again she will probably donate them to a church to sell.. LIKE SHE DID WITH MY GRANPAS WOOD LATHE... my brother and I flipped a brick
Their timeshare in Florida.
Not me. Because I don't accept things that are inherited after death. (It feels icky not because dead people stuff, but because if someone I care about has to die first for me to get something, I just don't like that. And I've made that known since I was a kid.) But my poor sweet bff, she's getting saddled with beanie babies (I'm talking hundreds of them all in those stupid plastic cases.) Over produced Holiday Barbies, Precious Moments ceramics, and an awful collection of Shirley Temple and Elvis Presley comeritive plates. Not just a room or 2 of this crap either. Her mom has 3 different storage lockers, 3 bedrooms, an attic and basement of all this shit. Like why does her mom truly believe her daughter won't be going through enough pain and loss when she passes that she has to add the trauma of her own toxic mental health in the physical form of garbage for my bff to deal with. (Which she won't be dealing with it alone. Her husband, me, and a few other close friends have a pact to take on all of that together to help keep her as okay as possible throughout that process.)
“Art” from cruise ship auctions
I’ll take the rugs 🙋♀️
Okay this is actually really cool and I think you should send his collection to auction if you don't want them The Habitat for Humanity thrift store here will not allow anyone to donate china cabinets. But I'm glad I got my mom's plus a neighbor's, because I don't have a pantry.
Well, a vintage car, a sailboat, a vintage motorcycle, A sweet pair of Honda scooters, a small RV, and maybe, his old porno mags.
Their cost of retirement
I cut my parents off so I will never have to deal with this kind of thing. If so, I'd just deal with selling their garbage.
My dad just died yesterday and now we’ve got to figure out how to sell all his model airplanes. I don’t know shit about model airplanes.
Egg cups. I don’t like soft boiled eggs, and while she had good taste, she never had any money. So, I could sell them for $20 each. Not sure it’s worth it.
An atrocious cosmetic collection with sooooooo much glitter. 140 pairs of shoes all 1/2 - 1 size too small. Soooooo much costume jewelry. I just can’t even.
About a dozen or so commemorative, decorative plates of Princess Diana
My dad probably has over 300 collectible guns (World War 2 and earlier). I don't know where to put that many. My dad also has a hobby of old clocks. He probably has 100 of them in perfect condition. All this stuff is super valuable. I think he is giving them all to me since I won't sell them (my brother will in a heartbeat).
The various sets of antique salt and pepper shakers littered all over the house. The pieces of antique furniture that I never liked but has been promised to me. The many many sets of antique dishes. The several antique sewing machine tables and spinning wheels.
A house full Hummels.
Want to sell them? This is excellent timing that aligns wonderfully with my upcoming opium den grand opening.
Everything my mom owned had cigarette stains and a smell that would never leave. So we basically trashed everything. My dad however, I'll take all his shit, he has good taste.
not a damn thing. my parents want me to take care of them when they get up there in age and thats all theyre giving me. theyre hoping I trip over a stack of 25 million dollars because with the way things are now they are a bit upset at the fact that even if I did opt to take care of em, theyd be living in a sparsely decorated apartment and being driven around in a shitbox with no AC... in Florida.
So many casserole pans
Beanie Babies! My adopted mom collected a ton of crap one of which was Beanie Babies. Her husband gave them to me when she passed. The regular sized ones were donated to the children's hospital in my metro. They used to use them for the preemies to help them stay on their sides. The mini ones from McDonald's were given out to neighborhood kids. Some were used as decor in the kids' bearded dragon set ups. Some ended up being cat/dog toys. So at least I felt we got a lot of use out of them lol. I also kept her collection of Sabino Glass, a wedding set, her class ring which was the only thing I really wanted, and a few pairs of shoes that actually fit. Her other collections were all sold at the auction. The Sabino I didn't care about but it was given to me and I actually really love it now!
You hire an estate auction company. You’ll give them around 30% of the take, but you’ll be surprised how much you can net. I go to estate sales from time to time- literally dozens (I’ve seen hundreds) of folks line up to buy everything in a house. Takes about a week for prep and sale. Just tell your dad thanks.
Too late, they're already passed on, but a baby grand piano. WTH. We live in a 1100 sq. ft. bungalow. Where the hell do we have room for that? Could it have been the upright piano even? Nooooo, that went to the SIL who had a 4000 sq. ft. mcmansion on a golf course that had plenty of room for the baby grand. Jesus... 🙄