I’m going through a divorce and have walked away taking no furniture, and very little else. I have my mothers wedding and engagement rings but that’s all, and I like the idea of giving the engagement ring to a niece or Dil at some stage.
My MIL collected antique furniture, rings from relatives and all sorts of valuable pictures and ornaments. She gave away a lot of it slowly years before she died to her sons, giving them the choice of what they wanted. Us dils were given little things like perfume bottles. Mil had a harp, lots of proper big silver dishes from days when there were servants and butlers, beautiful China dinner and tea sets, but it’s finding a place to keep them. A lot was sold, but rings from deceased relatives were kept in a box and offered to us dils when we got married.
I intend to stay with barely nothing to keep things simple for my boys when I die.
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