Comments on: Like moving, only not

By: Magazine Ads

Magazine Ads — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:28:45 +0000

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By: Sherry

Sherry — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:21:17 +0000

When my grandmother passed away a couple of years ago, my uncle had already gone through everything by the time we got to her apartment – we were getting her dresser and a few odds and ends. It’s definitely hard and strange to arrive and see everything in boxes. It makes you wonder how your life can end up packed up into piles of “This goes to so-and-so, this goes to the church rummage sale…”

Once the grief eases just a little, I find it nice to have some of the everyday things. I think of my aunt every time I use her wire whisk, my paternal grandmother when I take a recipe out of her wooden recipe box, and my maternal grandmother every time I take clothes out of her dresser.

*Big hugs* to you. It’s hard to go through.

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By: JoVE

JoVE — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 12:22:38 +0000

Hard though the idea of Memorial Tupperware is kinda funny.

Sometimes when things sit in boxes in the basement for a while, they lose some of their lustre and become easier to put in a garage sale or give to someone. But “a while” can be years. And I occurs to me that my mom only just got rid of the sofa bed she took when her mom died — in 1983. So don’t worry about it. You’ll do the right thing.

BTW, your feed isn’t showing up for some reason.

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By: Liese4

Liese4 — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 14:56:36 +0000

I know how hard that is. We had to go through my husbands’s mom and dad’s stuff when they died. My husband’s grandma was not happy with our decison to give away clothes and stuff, but you can’t keep everything. She also didn’t want us to unplug the answering machine because it had a message on it from him a few minutes before he died, but we had to and so the messgae was lost (it was a digital machine so of course the message wasn’t savable.) At least there are some good memories in the boxes too.