Baby boomers are downsizing and the kids won’t take the family heirlooms! There used to be a time that we couldn’t wait to go through our parent’s things and claim them as our own. I came across a great article that attempts to explain why millennials are snub their noses at their parents prized possessions.
For 30 years, Pat Fryzel stored her children’s memorabilia, and her grandmother’s, too. But when she and her husband downsized, from a large Winchester home to a two-bedroom Boston town house, there was no room for the American Girl dolls or Nana’s cake plates. So Fryzel asked her grown kids to collect what they wanted.
She was not met with much enthusiasm. “They said, ‘Take a picture and text it to us,’ ” recalled Fryzel, 64, a retired nurse practitioner. READ MORE…
