Postby Harriet » Sun Feb 11, 2024 10:34 pm
Mostly, lucylee, I felt bad that the DVD made about my late dh after he died was given back - two of the originals that were "burned", actually. This was music ("It's a Wonderful World", although you didn't have to have audio) underlying a montage of photographs of my late dh's life, with nice editing, given as a Christmas gift following in that year. It made sure the family could all see the photos that my late dh had in our household, from his childhood on, of himself, some with family. And a really good outdoor photo of him made into a cover for the DVDs. It was really very complete, because I'd made sure to get copies of his childhood photos early in our marriage. One went to each of his two siblings, one to my dmil, kept one for me. When I looked in the package they had given me yesterday, they'd given back dsisil's copy and my dmil's copy. So now only my dbil's family has a copy besides us. I just would have thought someone in dsisil's family would have wanted to inherit these keepsakes of their uncle. Whatever. We want them. This way, my dd44 and ds38 can each have their own originals, so that's fine.
Other things were gifts that maybe just don't fit into anyone's decor, which is understandable. You don't have to keep every gift your mother received. Some just seemed rather nice and inheritable to me.