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  1. Sep 2024
    1. “Sorry, nobody wants your stuff.”

      Main idea: this idea of passing things onto your kids is a dying tradition due to economic differences and trending philosophies.

    2. club of grown children who don’t want their parents’ (or grandparents’, or great-aunts-and-uncles’) stuff

      Honestly, for me, I wish I had things I've collected over the years of things relatives could have given me. I didn't have a stable living situation growing up. We were always moving, and this led to things having to be given away or left behind.

    3. And when you’re part of a large, multi-generational Italian-American family with roots in the same city for hundreds of years, you start to collect not just your own things but all of the things from all of the relatives who’ve passed over the years. Because, you know, “antiques.”

      I love how this sentence was structured. It's very descriptive and comical in describing this idea that "everything has value."