What’s your position on owning and using things that used to belong to your ancestors (grandparents or older)? Like or loathe? Something you love or that you couldn’t wait to get rid of?
Old-Fashioned Fruitcake
Old-Fashioned Fruitcake
What’s your position on owning and using things that used to belong to your ancestors (grandparents or older)? Like or loathe? Something you love or that you couldn’t wait to get rid of?
I love the connection to the past. Things with stories are better than things that have no stories.
That’s a great way of looking at it.
I love the few things I own that have come from relations I never met. Each has a story about how it came to me. It makes me feel connected to my wider family.
Including the World’s Ugliest Teapot?
I am very ambivalent about old stuff. I like to admire it, if it has some intrinsic beauty or value, but feel very trapped by having responsibility for preserving that value for others – i.e. having to keep and look after it. I guess I’ve grown up needing to be free to get up and go, and these things weigh me down. But I also get nervous about damaging things and reducing their perceived value. Your question brings up surprising emotions!
It’s a difficult balance. I keep reminding myself that the things I have were made for a purpose, and storage was not it 🙂