There is a beautiful piece of furniture that has been in my family for generations that I so want. However, it always gets passed to the oldest boy. So my brother will get it one day. No fair!
This girl at school? She told me that gelatin is made from ground-up cow's feet and that every time you eat Jell-O there's some cow out there limping around without any feet. But I told her that I'm sure the cow is dead before they cut its feet off, right?
Dawn ,'Never Leave Me'
Natter 46: The FIGHTIN' 46
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Glamcookie - Aug 16, 2006 2:13:54 pm PDT #3040 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Strix - Aug 16, 2006 2:19:42 pm PDT #3041 of 10001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
Erin, your dad should look into "green" funerals -- there is such a thing. The body is minimally prepared (no embalming) and the casket is simple wood which will decompose rapidly and return the contents to the earth. There is also cremation!
Daddy is more into "cheap" than "green." He's offended by the notion that you have to pay to be dead.
Gus - Aug 16, 2006 2:19:58 pm PDT #3042 of 10001
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
In my family, the women inherit. It pisses them off that they have to have a document in the States that says so.
BTW, Gloomcookie, likely on behalf your brother ... you want the old furniture? Get up in that.
Holli - Aug 16, 2006 2:23:47 pm PDT #3043 of 10001
an overblown libretto and a sumptuous score/ could never contain the contradictions I adore
I'm not entirely sure how this happened, but my mother ended up with custody of fully half a dozen sets of various ancestors' wedding china, not to mention a fair bit of silverware. She's already said she plans to divvy it up among my sisters and our female cousins when we start getting married.
As for jewelry, last year my mom took a ring of my great-grandmother's and had the stones resest into three necklaces. The ring was a big tear-shaped opal surrounded by little diamonds-- I got the opal and one diamond on a pendant, my sister got a couple of the little diamonds plus a bigger one from an old earring, and my mom got the rest of the diamonds in a necklace for herself. Everybody wins!
Plus, I like having a piece of jewelry with history to it, and no guilt over where the stones might come from.
Gus - Aug 16, 2006 2:32:15 pm PDT #3044 of 10001
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
You boys are watching, right? Give all your material crap to the ladies. It will impress them and you can just standby to receive stud-credits. Plus, they have to keep track of it all.
Connie Neil - Aug 16, 2006 2:36:54 pm PDT #3045 of 10001
brillig
However, it always gets passed to the oldest boy. So my brother will get it one day.
Well . . . there are ways around that, you know . . . like, if there wasn't an oldest boy around at the relevant time . . .
Gus - Aug 16, 2006 2:40:17 pm PDT #3046 of 10001
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
if there wasn't an oldest boy around at the relevant time...
See? Otherwise, it comes down to plotting the early demise of the males.
Trudy Booth - Aug 16, 2006 2:47:30 pm PDT #3047 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Daddy is more into "cheap" than "green." He's offended by the notion that you have to pay to be dead.
If he converts to Judaism at the last minute he could get out of being enbalmed (I think).
Connie Neil - Aug 16, 2006 2:48:00 pm PDT #3048 of 10001
brillig
It could simply be a case of oldest boy being off on an open-ended journey to darkest Antarctica, or something, and "Of course I'll take care of that for him till he gets back, I'll make sure it has the best of treatment--until, you know, he gets back."
sarameg - Aug 16, 2006 2:53:19 pm PDT #3049 of 10001
Erin, suggest the body farm! (that forensics place they use to study decomp.) He might even get to be put in a tree! (Actually, I vaguely recall hearing something about them having more bodies than they needed.)
Maternal grandparents were both boxed and plotted. Paternals went to science, I think. I know for sure grandpa did and we didn't do any burial or ashes for grandma. My parents and I will probably do the same. Somewhere in my piles of stuff, I have my parents when-we-die docs -from when I had PoA when they went to Peru. Dunno about brother, but given his field, I'd say he'd likely do the same. Oooh, something to ask next time we talk!