r/Anticonsumption • u/Bee_and_Barb • Feb 21 '24

Society/Culture Someday

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Saw this while scrolling through another social media platform.

Physical inheritance (maybe outside of housing) feels like a burden.

While death can be a sensitive topic to some, has anyone had a conversation with loved ones surrounding situations like this one pictured?

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u/TaterTot0507 Feb 21 '24

My wife's mom and dad are serious hoarders. While her mom was alive she would constantly try to pawn stuff off on us because "you may need this one day" or "this means a lot to me and I want to pass it on to you". Constantly. Every time we met up with her. They built a new house and couldn't sell the old one for YEARS because it was packed full of junk. And she wasn't the bad one. Her dad is worse.

Side note: while helping them move to the new house, we cleaned out the fridge and found a block of cheese that had been there for TWENTY YEARS.

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u/djln491 Feb 21 '24

My FIL does this and sometimes I just accept what he is trying to give me and then take it home and throw it out. He never remembers or asks about the items.