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Kabu
I think it is natural for parents and the older generation to want to provide for their offspring - I have never been able to understand why some people have a problem with that...
posted by
Nautikos
on May 9, 2010 at 7:33 PM
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I think inheritance is a grand thing when unexpected....but it can be an ugly tool used by the elders to get the offspring to 'behave'...in anticipation of that nice fat check. So, in my case, I'd rather misbehave and forego the dough. Life's too short to live as others would have you live. I'll make my own money.
posted by
Darson
on May 6, 2010 at 6:54 AM
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I find
your family history very smooth reading becuase you present it so well! Facts and comments that paint a picture in my head. Inheritance is something that always causes problems, maybe more than it is worth. Money doesn't seem to be able to reach the hands that deserve it the most... or maybe vast amounts of inherited money is ruinous to human nature? Not always, but it may be meaningless money, you know? Money that someone else made... who is most deserving?
posted by
KaBooM62
on May 5, 2010 at 6:45 PM
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kabu
I have really enjoyed this. As for me, I would not mind some inherited wealth!!!
posted by
TIMMYTALES
on May 5, 2010 at 11:16 AM
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Thanks for all your comments and I really enjoyed reading them...all good
thoughts and worthy opinions that gave me resl interset to contemplate. It has been fun writing about people who the grandchildren see as having lived so long ago and yet who remain real and alive in my heart.
posted by
Kabu
on May 5, 2010 at 8:57 AM
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Kabu - inherited wealth? I really don't mind as long as it is from mom & dad..lol. I will travel the world with it...
posted by
shobana
on May 5, 2010 at 5:06 AM
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She surely had worked hard, after her husband died. She was able to make a fortune all alone, and I respect her for that. For the wealth, I personally think that if I were in her shoes, I'd give it all fair. For those who had treated me not as good as I want, I'd give them a fair share as a mean of forgiving them for the past, and for those who had treated me well, I would still give a fair share as a mean of saying thank you.
posted by
clarerichard
on May 5, 2010 at 4:50 AM
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Awww I like Madge - I had an Aunt very similar to her. Very worldly and sophisticated...and as far as the inheritance, how I feel? I feel it was what she must have felt in her heart to give and it was honored... I think it kind of her to treat the children to
hope for a better life ~ that's just me though.
Elyse
posted by
elysianfields
on May 4, 2010 at 9:03 PM
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I have no particular opinion about inheritances... I do believe whatever belongs to one person should be that person's to distribute however that person feels like... whether others feel the way its distributed is fair or not... it does not matter... Great post Kabu. xoxoxo
posted by
Sinome
on May 4, 2010 at 6:46 PM
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I don't think inherited wealth is a bad thing necessarily. I think it's more about the people than the money.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on May 4, 2010 at 5:54 PM
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The BL comes from money, but I have yet to see a penny from that wench
posted by
Ariala
on May 4, 2010 at 4:34 PM
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Oh, and I loved the way you wrote about your Aunt's sense of fair play.
She sounds like a great human being.
posted by
Pat_B
on May 4, 2010 at 2:07 PM
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I'd like to have inherited a bit of wealth, but to be honest
I wouldn't know what to do with it, anyway. I'm just thankful -- in light of circumstances around the demise of my dad, and later my mom -- that I didn't inherit a boatload of debt.
posted by
Pat_B
on May 4, 2010 at 2:06 PM
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I love this more by the day, Grandmummy. Your aunts were lovely ladies and I wish I could have known them. As for inherited wealth...I too, have mixed feelings on the subject. Love you and Poppy to bits!
posted by
lovelyladymonk
on May 4, 2010 at 1:00 PM
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I feel about inherited wealth about the same way as I feel about
monarchy. That is to say, I believe in a ruling class, provided I rule.
posted by
strat
on May 4, 2010 at 12:41 PM
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I inherited money from my parents when they died, but they lived a good life and did what they wanted until my dad took sick, he always did things for us when he was alive as he said he would rather give it to us while he was alive then after he was gone.
posted by
Lanetay
on May 4, 2010 at 12:35 PM
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Well Kabu, I think one should have what one needs and we don't know how long that will be for, so I try to force myself to have what I want, but having lived in the sparse years it is not an easy thing to do sometimes. I have seen old people afraid to put an extra lump of coal on the fire and still pile money up in a savings account, this is a sort of fear of poverty that no longer exists in these cases. I don't really care otherwise. Nice to have rich relations though.
posted by
C_C_T
on May 4, 2010 at 12:08 PM
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Kabu
I really don't have an opinion about inherritances, they have always been a ponderance of mine. I can't make a judgement on it. I do like the story and love your and your writing.
posted by
Justi
on May 4, 2010 at 12:07 PM
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kabu
I It makes you feel young but take it with old wisdom love. BC-A, Bill’s RJLst
posted by
BC-A
on May 4, 2010 at 11:36 AM
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Kabuiepie-;)
Well frankly my darlin', I appreciate Madge for making it possible for us to live in a better style than on just my meagre investments and OAS I don't dare play with. I love you
posted by
WileyJohn
on May 4, 2010 at 11:34 AM
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