Looking after ourselves
@Former-Member, we did a cull about 5 years into our marriage of wedding presents and suchlike that we'd never used. Felt a bit odd doing so even at that stage, but I hope someone has enjoyed them instead of them dust-gathering at our place.
I do regret putting a couple of teacup sets out in the sale. One was a prize I got at the Angling Club that Dad used to take me to (he did most of the work, so I'm not sure who it should have gone to. :P) and the other was from my Grandma. I do however have other Dad and Daughter memoirs, including Angling Club ones, and other things of Grandma's that I do use and/or love, so I'm not too bereft.
I've found a lot of unused gifts at Mum and Dad's place too, and some of their wedding gifts that were proudly displayed in a glass doored buffet were never put into use because they were "special". I've got full intentions of lovingly using a few of those. Others will be passed on.
I have told our "kids" as they've moved out of home to check with us before buying household stuff, in case we have spares to pass on to them. That partially works... part of moving out is establishing your own adult identitiy, so they don't necessarily want our bits and bobs. But a few things have been useful to them. Hassle is that a lot of it is still being used by us.
We're "inheriting" Mum and Dad's household just a little bit too late for the older three to be receivers, and a bit too early for our youngest. Still trying to get my head around what we need to cull from ours to take in the things we really want to keep from theirs.
