An interesting spin on inheritance

How do you make sure one of those ebay sellers comes to the house and takes/buys/whatever everything he could possibly sell.

“Can you imagine a millennial with a china hutch?” Hall asks.

I ask, can you imagine a china hutch with a millenial? They need to get new kids.

They usually don't want to screw with anything that isn't already cash. These places get gutted and carted out to the dumpster. Usually it is just crap. Occasionally there may be some tools but if the hubby died first the widow already gave most of them away to the "handyman". I know I tried to sell a bunch of old Craftsman hand tools on Ebay for one of these ladies and they went for a few bucks. I was really surprised because I expected a lot of money. I ended up eating the shipping myself and I gave her the whole bid. When she died, her kids just took the guns and a few pieces of real jewelry. Everything else was still there. They sold the house furnished and the real estate agent threw everything away that wasn't part of her idea of a "staged" house for sale.

When my uncle died last fall, we managed to find a buyer for his house that would take it and all the crap in it. He found homes for most of the furniture and everything else wound up in a dumpster.

While my uncle was still in the hospital, my mother and I went over there to look around. (The house had been my grandparents'.) She made a minor fuss over grandma's porcelain teacups and saucers. I said, "Nobody will want those."

Cindy Hamilton

In the past few years, in my area, online-only estate auctions have become more popular. In some cases they leave everything in the house rather than transport it to the auction hall. The auctioneer photographs all the lots and posts the pics & written description to the auction web page - usually a 1 week time frame for bidding with a specific viewing day and pick-up day. I assume that anything that doesn't sell gets donated to a charity Thrift Store or the landfill ..

Here's one example - looks like consignment rather than estate :

That is true. I also see estate sales where house is open to any buyers of the leftovers. Afterwards the dumpster comes and the kids sell the house.

Yah, who wants fragile porcelain?  A married couple can throw Corelle at each other all night and not lose any.

What does that have to do with home repair? Hypocrite.

She's right. When we moved we got rid of a lot of stuff. When my wife passed my kids only wanted a couple of small things. Same with when I go. They already have everything they need and don't want stuff for the sake of having it. Salvation Army Goodwill Dumpster.

I went through that about 10 years ago. OUtside of some guns and tools most of the stuff in my parents house was not worth much on the selling market. Plenty of good stuff that no one wants. Had a dealer come in and got about $ 1000 for all the stuff that he wanted. From talking to him a few months later, he may have doubled his money. I now have 2 china cabinets with 2 sets and silverwear to match that is collecting dust. We never use it. In a way too valuable to use and still not worth much. After an open house yard sale I still filled up a large dumpster of good stuff that no one wanted.

A friend handled an estate of a woman that had no living relatives close by. She lived in a large house in the historic district of town. Lots of very good anteque type stuff . He managed to sell a few things to a dealer. The dealer was made to take everything in the house. When it was all over, I think the dealer may have broke even by the time he hauled off the left overs and items he though he could not sell.

I think for the most part the people growing up now do not want the old anteque stuff, but want more modern items for the house.

Large proportion of younger folks live in apartments and don't have _room_ for most of that stuff.

I think it's fair to say you didn't read the article to which you linked.

I understand you can try to sell the stuff or you can donate it but around here Goodwill doesn't want it either. They have a half dozen DVD players or microwaves they can't sell now.

yet they're perfectly happy to take clothing, furniture, dishware, baking ware, silverware and other household goods.

They'll also take all surplus electronics around here.

You're confused again. The article was about people downsizing their homes later in life.

I bet you don't have the turn over of "Mom's house" that we have. Personally I would short the Florida housing market if the worst case scenarios of C19 come true. There will be a lot of houses on the market.

\ That was the lesson she was trying to teach but the underlying fact is your kids don't want your stuff. They will throw it away.

None of this has anything to do with your claim that Adam Lanza inherited his mother's gun when he killed her. As I've said multiple times, inheritance doesn't work that way. FYI, there was nothing in your article about inheritance.

Mr. Fretwell seems to think that scrounging stuff from dead relatives is a form of "inheritance". Must be a Florida thing.