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Thread #44342   Message #653040
Posted By: Jerry Rasmussen
18-Feb-02 - 08:17 PM
Thread Name: Family Keepsakes: What have YOU kept?
Subject: RE: Family Keepsakes: What have YOU kept?
And that's the next part of this thread. What do you think that you'll leave behind. I realize that, if you're 28, that's hard to imagine. But some of us are getting to an age when our kids are expressing their special affection for something we have. One of my sons has been eyeing up a coffee table I made out of barn board. He always bragged to his friends when he was a teenager, that you could drive a truck up onto to coffee table and it wouldn't break. Some folks have mentioned leaving instruments... what a great excuse... "it's not for me, honey, it's for our kids!!!!" For many years I worked in a Museum, and one of the heart-breaking jobs that I had was talking to someone who wanted to donate something that meant everything to them, and none of their kids wanted it. I tried to take it, even if we weren't going to keep it, just to find a home for it, and make the person feel that SOMEONE appreciated what they had done..

Jerry