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<blockquote data-quote="MGibster" data-source="post: 9181350" data-attributes="member: 4534"><p>In early 2020, <em>The Wall Street Journal </em>had an article called "The Awkward Heirloom: No One Wants Grandma's Fur Coat. It wasn't that long ago a fur coat for the missus was a real status symbol and something a lot of women really, really wanted. And properly cared for, these fur coats and stoles can last for many, many decades and are something you could pass down to your kids. But many young people don't want these coats for a variety of reasons. The most obvious is there's a negative association with fur these days. My mother still has a fox stole, but she never wore it once we returned to the United States for fear of negative and/or violent reactions. And even if a kid doesn't care about that, those fur coats aren't really in style in most areas of the US. And even if you wanted to keep it, you do have to take special care of it and that's just a pain. The fur coat just doesn't mean to young people today what it meant to their grandmother's in the 1950s. For some families, games are going to be the same. </p><p></p><p></p><p>I've had this discussion once with my mother-in-law and only because she broached the subject herself. It was just me and her in the basement, and she made a comment about getting rid of stuff because she's not getting any younger and I encouraged her to do so. While we were in the basement, I pointed out to all the sewing magazines she had from the 80s and 90s that nobody's looked through in decades and are full of patterns that aren't in style. But then this is the type of woman who won't turn loose anything that might be useful. As we were tossing the five non-working dehumidifiers she suggested we keep the wheels just in case we needed them for something else. </p><p></p><p>I imagine people keep their stuff for multiple reasons. Some people have a hard time confronting their own mortality. Others grew up having very little and throwing something away that's "perfectly good" just seems so wasteful.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MGibster, post: 9181350, member: 4534"] In early 2020, [I]The Wall Street Journal [/I]had an article called "The Awkward Heirloom: No One Wants Grandma's Fur Coat. It wasn't that long ago a fur coat for the missus was a real status symbol and something a lot of women really, really wanted. And properly cared for, these fur coats and stoles can last for many, many decades and are something you could pass down to your kids. But many young people don't want these coats for a variety of reasons. The most obvious is there's a negative association with fur these days. My mother still has a fox stole, but she never wore it once we returned to the United States for fear of negative and/or violent reactions. And even if a kid doesn't care about that, those fur coats aren't really in style in most areas of the US. And even if you wanted to keep it, you do have to take special care of it and that's just a pain. The fur coat just doesn't mean to young people today what it meant to their grandmother's in the 1950s. For some families, games are going to be the same. I've had this discussion once with my mother-in-law and only because she broached the subject herself. It was just me and her in the basement, and she made a comment about getting rid of stuff because she's not getting any younger and I encouraged her to do so. While we were in the basement, I pointed out to all the sewing magazines she had from the 80s and 90s that nobody's looked through in decades and are full of patterns that aren't in style. But then this is the type of woman who won't turn loose anything that might be useful. As we were tossing the five non-working dehumidifiers she suggested we keep the wheels just in case we needed them for something else. I imagine people keep their stuff for multiple reasons. Some people have a hard time confronting their own mortality. Others grew up having very little and throwing something away that's "perfectly good" just seems so wasteful. [/QUOTE]
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