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<p>[QUOTE="Good Cents, post: 3722687, member: 100720"]Well, if you need someone who will treasure the coins, you've got me Gramps! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Seriously though, is anyone in the family into fishing? Maybe write up one of your memories of time spent with your grandfather fishing. Take some pictures of some of the hand made lures, and email what you wrote and the pictures out to everyone. See if anyone "bites". It's a different kind of fishing. You're not straight out asking anyone to take them, but you're putting family history out there. Perhaps down the line, after you're gone someone will find those lures and remember what you wrote and say "Hey, I want those lures!". That's what happens often. We don't appreciate what we have while we have it. Then when it's gone we cry and we miss it so much. With people the most, but with lots of other things too.</p><p><br /></p><p>One of my grandmothers used to bake using flour measurements with her hands. She would bake all these great things for our family and for years I meant to bake with her and measure out in real measurements what her hand measurements came to. But she was so active and vibrant and young at heart that it didn't occur to me that she would ever be gone one day. In my defense I was young and dumb, but still, I regret so much that I never did that.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, my point is that your family may want some of those things down the line after you're gone. It's ridiculous. But it's human nature, I guess, because it's universal. </p><p><br /></p><p>So, if you write up something about your memories with your grandfather fishing and making the lures, or if you write up something about the Indian artifacts and your hunting expeditions for them, how many hours you spent, how you would find them, what you would look for, etc, send those out with pictures in an email. People email so much garbage, this is your little "Something I Remember" email. You're not offering it to anyone. You're just sharing your memories, your stories. I assure you, it will will be remembered when all of a sudden you're not there to tell those stories anymore. Then it's a question of who will hold on to those things, and if there are family members who care (some of us do!), then they will treasure your treasures.</p><p><br /></p><p>At the end of the day it's the relationships, I think, that endure. The time your grandfather invested in you in taking you fishing and making lures with you, that was what you took with you more than the lures themselves. And in turn that is what you've invested in your children and grandchildren. And so the lures did their job because they were never meant to catch anything, they were meant to create good memories and time invested in you as a person so that you can become the person you are and do the same for your children and grandchildren.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sorry for the long posts, I'm writing to myself too. Even though I'm 25 years behind you, I've thought about these things a lot.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Good Cents, post: 3722687, member: 100720"]Well, if you need someone who will treasure the coins, you've got me Gramps! :) Seriously though, is anyone in the family into fishing? Maybe write up one of your memories of time spent with your grandfather fishing. Take some pictures of some of the hand made lures, and email what you wrote and the pictures out to everyone. See if anyone "bites". It's a different kind of fishing. You're not straight out asking anyone to take them, but you're putting family history out there. Perhaps down the line, after you're gone someone will find those lures and remember what you wrote and say "Hey, I want those lures!". That's what happens often. We don't appreciate what we have while we have it. Then when it's gone we cry and we miss it so much. With people the most, but with lots of other things too. One of my grandmothers used to bake using flour measurements with her hands. She would bake all these great things for our family and for years I meant to bake with her and measure out in real measurements what her hand measurements came to. But she was so active and vibrant and young at heart that it didn't occur to me that she would ever be gone one day. In my defense I was young and dumb, but still, I regret so much that I never did that. Anyway, my point is that your family may want some of those things down the line after you're gone. It's ridiculous. But it's human nature, I guess, because it's universal. So, if you write up something about your memories with your grandfather fishing and making the lures, or if you write up something about the Indian artifacts and your hunting expeditions for them, how many hours you spent, how you would find them, what you would look for, etc, send those out with pictures in an email. People email so much garbage, this is your little "Something I Remember" email. You're not offering it to anyone. You're just sharing your memories, your stories. I assure you, it will will be remembered when all of a sudden you're not there to tell those stories anymore. Then it's a question of who will hold on to those things, and if there are family members who care (some of us do!), then they will treasure your treasures. At the end of the day it's the relationships, I think, that endure. The time your grandfather invested in you in taking you fishing and making lures with you, that was what you took with you more than the lures themselves. And in turn that is what you've invested in your children and grandchildren. And so the lures did their job because they were never meant to catch anything, they were meant to create good memories and time invested in you as a person so that you can become the person you are and do the same for your children and grandchildren. Sorry for the long posts, I'm writing to myself too. Even though I'm 25 years behind you, I've thought about these things a lot.[/QUOTE]
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