Over the years my very much younger and privileged sister has sold items given to her, both by myself and others. Many years ago I gave her a chest freezer I no longer needed, she was very pleased to get it but a few months later she sold it to a second hand dealer for £50. Life was quite hard for me financially at that time bringing up a young family but she never offered me a penny of the money.
Years have passed but I've never forgotten that particular incident. Now she has sold family rings, worth very little apart from sentimental reasons and particularly poignant because our ancestors had kept them safe and treasured them. The only value to her was the scrap gold and she didn't want them sitting in her jewellery box. So for very little money rings which have been passed down the female line for four or five generations have gone. She admits she didn't need the money but chose to buy costume jewellery instead.
There is a 17 year age gap as siblings and maybe this affected me because I am nearing the end of my life but I cannot express how angry I feel about what she has done. She has two sons but I have a daughter and granddaughter to whom they could have been passed to. Am I being unreasonable in feeling so strongly? I've told her how I feel. Her answer was that they were hers to do what she saw fit.
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Good Morning Thursday 25th April 2024