My family are too scattered and socially/psychologically etc disconnected (though they don't know it) to do this kind of thing. Although I did somehow inherit an antique fobwatch that was my grandfather's, when my grandmother died awhile back.
The nice thing about a family heirloom like the button jar is, as you say, the fact that it's someaningful to you but not to anyone outside the family. Exactly the kidn of thing that burglars, should they ever darken your doorstep (and I hope they don't) studiously avoid bothering with.
After all, you can always replace the DVD player and the wahtever inch TV but the button jar? You need to hang on to that.
Good points on the presumed safety of family buttons. The NRA stickers I keep on the exterior doors shouldn't hurt either. So I assume you'll be the prime mover on your family button jar?
Heh heh, honestly, in the case of my family, it's like to be an inheritable bookcase of books. (if for no other reason than that that's pretty much the only way you'd ever get any of us to part with our book collections ;D)
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My family are too scattered and socially/psychologically etc disconnected (though they don't know it) to do this kind of thing. Although I did somehow inherit an antique fobwatch that was my grandfather's, when my grandmother died awhile back.
The nice thing about a family heirloom like the button jar is, as you say, the fact that it's someaningful to you but not to anyone outside the family. Exactly the kidn of thing that burglars, should they ever darken your doorstep (and I hope they don't) studiously avoid bothering with.
After all, you can always replace the DVD player and the wahtever inch TV but the button jar? You need to hang on to that.
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(if for no other reason than that that's pretty much the only way you'd ever get any of us to part with our book collections ;D)
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