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.

Seriously, your mother's jewelry can finance your cabana boys! Or a therapist.

My grandmother's will said that, if she died before her husband, then her husband would inherit almost everything, but her jewelry and china would go directly to her daughters. She was convinced that her husband was going to marry a 19-year-old shiksa who would take the jewelry and china. Since then, most of the other women in the family have put the 19-year-old-shiksa-clause into their wills. My mom was working on her will and asked my sister if she wanted the china, and my sister said no, it's not really her style. Then she asked me, and I said the same thing. So she sighed and said, "I guess the 19-year-old shiksa can have the china after all."

I think I've found what might be the world's stupidest bike path. It runs parallel to a street, but that street has almost no cars anyway, so it's not like they needed to put in a bike path for safety. At one end, it connects to a major road that doesn't have anywhere to bike safely, so there's no good way to get on or off the path at that end. At the other end, there's a park and a pool. The path itself is about a quarter of a mile long. I can't figure out the logic here.

One thing I do have is Grandma E's wedding china. I think she was saving it as a wedding present but after I hit 35 and wasn't married she just gave it to me.

I haven't been able to use it or properly display it and right now it's very carefully wrapped and boxed at Mom's house. But at some point I'm going to have a house with room for a nice china cabinet/hutch and put it on display.

Mom has a few jewelry pieces but we were robbed at one point after my parents separated and they took her charm bracelet, wedding ring, engagement ring, and cameos that Dad had given her.