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Message:: [QUOTE="SBSVC, post: 411731, member: 136"]Cyndie, I posted this a while back (2016) but it seems SO relevant right now! (p.s. They are now engaged...) from:<a href="https://www.antiquers.com/threads/resurrection-of-rants-and-raves.2208/page-102#post-131278" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.antiquers.com/threads/resurrection-of-rants-and-raves.2208/page-102#post-131278">https://www.antiquers.com/threads/resurrection-of-rants-and-raves.2208/page-102#post-131278</a> Oh, FUDGE! NOW WHAT??? I’m in the middle of dealing with packing for a projected move, and my dear son (age 25) calls to announce that he & his girlfriend are moving in together (in Boston, where they both live now.) Now, THAT doesn’t bother me at all. She’s a nice kid, ambitious (working FT and working on her Masters degree at the same time) and the two of them seem to get along well together. The fact that they’re happy together makes it fine with me. What IS bothering me right now (and I know it shouldn’t!) is that DS then said, “She doesn’t like my stuff.” Mom: What do you mean, she doesn’t like your stuff? Son: She hates everything I have except those two bookcases – oh, and she wants to know where you got them, so we can get more. Mom: Those bookcases are 60 years old. You’re not going to find more like them. Son: Oh. Okay. Mom: What are you going to do with everything else? Son: She says we can just put it out on the curb. Somebody will want it. Mom: OH, NO, YOU DON’T! What about the butcher block table? Son: Nope, she doesn’t like it. Mom: Your SISTER wants that table! And what about your rugs – and Grandpa’s dresser, and things like that? Son: Nope. Really, Mom, she doesn’t like ANY of it. Mom: Okay… Wait. DO NOT PUT ANYTHING OUT ON THE CURB! I have to think about this… Son: Well, she did find a lot of new stuff she really does like…. She took me to this HUGE place & showed me all the stuff she has picked out for the new apartment. The place is sort of weird…. It’s called IKEA? The stuff isn’t even WHOLE – it comes in, like, cardboard boxes, and you have to, like, put it together yourself? Mom: Oh… Son: Oh, yeah, and she doesn’t like my dishes or silverware, either. Mom: Your DISHES? The SILVERWARE? Son: You know, the glass stuff that you said was kind of special, and that stainless stuff you got me? Mom: Yes… I know exactly what dishes & silverware you mean… Son: So what should I do with all of it? Mom: Right now, don’t do ANYTHING with it. I’m going to have to get back with you on that… OMG – NOW WHAT? I know it’s nuts, but I’m beside myself at the moment. It is, of course, only STUFF, but it’s all really GOOD stuff! Do I go to Boston & get it back (and keep it for him, or let his sister have what she wants of it?) Do I arrange for it to be sold? Aaargh. IKEA??? What’s a mother to do? -C- [/QUOTE]

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