Me: Niece! Take Doris' handwritten recipes.
Sweet, lovely, just graduated from college Niece: OK.
Me: And the cookie cutters.
Niece: OK.
Me: What about this stand mixer?
Niece: I don't know....
Me: You might want it someday.
Niece: It feels kind of weird taking her stuff.
Me: I know. You're still mourning her death and it seems tacky to be taking her things. But she would be very happy for you to have the things she enjoyed so much.
Niece: I guess.
Me: It's you or it's Goodwill.
Niece: I guess.
Me: Do you need an iron?
Niece: Sure.
Me: Wait. You actually have clothes that need to be ironed?
Niece: Yes.
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Oh GD!
ReplyDeleteI also took many of my grandmother's smaller day to day kitchen items. It brings me great joy just looking at them.
Aww shucks.
I know! I have my grandmother's strudel cloth. So many happy memories of making strudel together.
DeleteI'm at a loss imagining what S & D had that Ted and Tedswife want to be grabby about - but if it clears the house, that's a good thing!
ReplyDeleteI'm afraid you haven't found all the sex toys yet. You know they never threw anything out...
emma, it's like you have ESP.
DeleteI make it a rule to never buy anything that needs ironing or dry cleaning. Well, except suits, and I wear those so infrequently that I can usually get by dry cleaning them anywhere from once a year (my favorite suit) to once a decade (the one that I only wear a very few times a decade).
ReplyDeleteThis reminds me of when my mom passed away, she had an apartment, and my wife, daughter and I packed up stuff that had any meaning to us, and then we asked her neighbors, many of whom had become good friends in the 4 years she'd lived there, if they wanted any of her things. Most of the kitchen stuff we didn't take went to the community kitchen for her building, which was nice.
I have all these white blouses that need to be ironed and I have not worn them for two years, but I cannot bring myself to put them in the Goodwill box. I think it is time. I hate ironing. I never want another job where I have to be starched.
DeleteIf they're nice and you and Primo itemize your taxes, I use ItsDeductible.com to figure out the value of things that we donate (usually books and clothes). It's a service of Intuit/TurboTax, so if you use them it's incredibly simple to import your deductions, and if not it's still a good, FREE record-keeping tool.
DeleteTeen! is so right. Whenever i roll out pastry with Mom's rolling pin, or cut cookies with my aunt's cutters, it makes me happy. Glad Niece took some. i think she will be glad in the years to come.
ReplyDeletewebb, I found other little things like that and insisted that Maria take them home to share with her brother and sister. It is those little things you remember!
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