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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 489474" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>I'm glad you finally got it all put up! I always feel better when that chore is done. I have lots of decorations but the last couple of years I haven't put it all up, just the tree, because we're not going to be here at Christmas anyway.</p><p></p><p>And I know exactly what you mean, how frustrating it is when family heirlooms come up "missing". Not Christmas decorations but I have a couple of things that I really wanted that have just disappeared. I moved to this house eight years ago and these things disappeared before I ever packed up to move here so I know they are gone. One was a beautiful old vase that my father brought back from Japan after WW2. I'm not sure if it was glass or many coats of shiny lacquer(?) but it was a deep cranberry color with flowers painted on it. It was absolutely gorgeous! At the old house I knew exactly where it was and then noticed one day that it was gone so I had no idea how long it had been missing. I quizzed both kids, telling them I wouldn't be upset if it had gotten broken, I just wanted to know so I could quit looking for it ... both swore they knew nothing about it and I believe them. I wouldn't be surprised if my older brother hadn't taken it when they came here for my mom's funeral. There were a few other items of my mom's that I KNOW that he took with no discussion with our younger brother or me. The other is some very old family pictures that my mom had stuffed into a cardboard box in her closet. These photographs went back to my mother's childhood and before, some dating back to the early 1900's. They were all together in one box and I had looked at them many times and now at least half of them are just gone! There were some that I just loved, pictures of my grandmother and her sisters in a park, wearing the long white lace dresses and the Gibson Girl hairdos, and my grandfather and great uncles wearing the old fashioned straw hats ... there were several of them and now they're just GONE! And I still can't imagine whatever happened to them and it still bothers me.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 489474, member: 1883"] I'm glad you finally got it all put up! I always feel better when that chore is done. I have lots of decorations but the last couple of years I haven't put it all up, just the tree, because we're not going to be here at Christmas anyway. And I know exactly what you mean, how frustrating it is when family heirlooms come up "missing". Not Christmas decorations but I have a couple of things that I really wanted that have just disappeared. I moved to this house eight years ago and these things disappeared before I ever packed up to move here so I know they are gone. One was a beautiful old vase that my father brought back from Japan after WW2. I'm not sure if it was glass or many coats of shiny lacquer(?) but it was a deep cranberry color with flowers painted on it. It was absolutely gorgeous! At the old house I knew exactly where it was and then noticed one day that it was gone so I had no idea how long it had been missing. I quizzed both kids, telling them I wouldn't be upset if it had gotten broken, I just wanted to know so I could quit looking for it ... both swore they knew nothing about it and I believe them. I wouldn't be surprised if my older brother hadn't taken it when they came here for my mom's funeral. There were a few other items of my mom's that I KNOW that he took with no discussion with our younger brother or me. The other is some very old family pictures that my mom had stuffed into a cardboard box in her closet. These photographs went back to my mother's childhood and before, some dating back to the early 1900's. They were all together in one box and I had looked at them many times and now at least half of them are just gone! There were some that I just loved, pictures of my grandmother and her sisters in a park, wearing the long white lace dresses and the Gibson Girl hairdos, and my grandfather and great uncles wearing the old fashioned straw hats ... there were several of them and now they're just GONE! And I still can't imagine whatever happened to them and it still bothers me. [/QUOTE]
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