In my family, traditionally household goods - silver, china, etc. - were passed to oldest daughters. Which means I'm in line to get the family silver; I already have my grandmother's good china, which is pretty but I don't think I've ever used it. My mother's good glassware, however, I truly lust after - Heisey New Era - 1930s moderne.

The only thing that comes to mind that I would really want from my grandparents would be old photos, and those can be digitized so that everyone can get a copy.

This. Though also I would like to know who the heck the people ARE...which is something I need to deal with and do BEFORE anyone else dies. Yeesh. (My dad's parents each had like, six siblings, plus grandma's parents died so they were taken in by this other family, and then one of them married some other relative, so they're both sorta and actually related...)

There's probably one or two pieces of furniture that I really like, but I'm not sure where they would fit in my house or if it would be worth trying to transport from Indiana. The few nice pieces of jewelry my mom has aren't that nice, and aren't at ALL my style, so...yeah.

And then there's the stamps. We are all perpetually worried that my dad (who is somewhat of a hoarder anyway, AND a stamp collector) will die and we won't know what's worth something, and what to toss, and if it's all worth 50 cents a stamp if it's even worth having someone look at them...we keep telling him he needs to do something about them....but he keeps buying as many on ebay as he sells!

Though also I would like to know who the heck the people ARE

My paternal grandmother and her sister went through their family pictures and id'd as many as they could a few years before they passed away, so when Dad, my now ex-SIL, and I went through the box, we were able to figure out how I was related to these B&W faces. I have some very cool photos that will look great in antique frames on a shelf--a boy in 1910s-era knickers, a solemn-looking baby girl, and my great-grandma Alida and her siblings, all of whom look a lot like me!

I just got my great-grandmother's candlesticks last night. Which involved a conversation where the rest of my family was like, "Why would you think we would want them? Dude. They fugly."

Hmph, I say.

My mom keeps giving us stuff each time she sees us ("I brought that green glass bowl you always liked in my suitcase")

Good. Let her give things away now, while she can enjoy the giving. That's my take on it anyway.

I really want a snack. I *had* wanted a banana.

I am editing an article on drug treatment for premature ejaculation. I think I will skip the banana and see if there are more M&Ms in the freezer.

My mother keeps noting that when she spends money on us it's stuff we won't inherit, plus she grouses at us about the stuff we won't take from her now.

She raised two kids who don't like gold, sadly. And she likes it a lot.

I feel your pain, ita. My mother has a lot of very nice jewelry that she keeps trying to get me excited about. I'm not excited about jewelry in general, and certainly not the gold pieces (which she prefers). I joke that it's all going to my niece.

I feel your pain, ita. My mother has a lot of very nice jewelry that she keeps trying to get me excited about. I'm not excited about jewelry in general, and certainly not the gold pieces (which she prefers). I joke that it's all going to my niece.

Right there with you. My mom has a lot of nice jewelry, but her taste in jewelry overlaps mine maybe by 10%, and my SiL doesn't wear jewelry other than her wedding ring, and I seriously doubt there will be grandkids from either one of us. So one day my bro and I are just going to be looking at a box of shiny stuff, utterly perplexed.

She raised two kids who don't like gold, sadly. And she likes it a lot.

Gold can be exchanged for goods and services.