tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5877872196122597956.post6817936870606550823..comments2024-02-14T14:47:58.061-08:00Comments on Word Salad: I Need More JewelryColeslawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06813319585807128092noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5877872196122597956.post-45942118767356472922011-12-01T07:02:59.865-08:002011-12-01T07:02:59.865-08:00Well written post ! I also love wearing jewelry. L...Well written post ! I also love wearing jewelry. Last week, I bought new bead bracelet. Its too gorgeous..I really loved it :))Vintage ringshttp://www.vintageyard.com/ringsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5877872196122597956.post-43886449741151650332011-11-22T05:38:45.260-08:002011-11-22T05:38:45.260-08:00thankthankAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5877872196122597956.post-87640050174829885392011-10-27T06:24:28.928-07:002011-10-27T06:24:28.928-07:00Pensnest, thank you for the comment. You obviously...Pensnest, thank you for the comment. You obviously put a lot of thought and effort into it. If I really had planned to buy more jewelry just so that I could distribute it more evenly when I died, you would have given me a lot to think about. As it is, you've given me a lot to think about with respect to the enormous gap between what I see as humor and what my readers do.Coleslawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06813319585807128092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5877872196122597956.post-48542153912872712382011-10-27T02:03:45.222-07:002011-10-27T02:03:45.222-07:00Hi - here via the Slacktivist roundup.
I think I&...Hi - here via the Slacktivist roundup.<br /><br />I think I'd be a "Wait, what?" as well. <br /><br />What do you intend your legacies as? Are they meant to be something of value or are they meant to be reminders of you?<br /><br />If you want to leave your nieces something that is valuable, you can compensate the nephews to the same extent by leaving them money. Though you might have to add cash to the jewellery legacies in order to even things up... Alternatively, have the jewellery sold and divide the proceeds between nieces and nephews. That's unquestionably fair.<br /><br />If you want to leave the jewellery because these are items you love, and you hope to pass them to people you love who will also love them, then match the pieces to the nieces <em>or other recipients</em>. If you want more jewellery, buy it for *you*, not as something to hold in keeping for the next generation.<br /><br />If you want your relations to have something to remember you by, then again, match the pieces to the nieces by something other than birth order and monetary value. And leave other mementoes to your nephews, matched by personality and/or need. Otherwise it sounds as though bequeathing the jewellery is actually more important to you than giving something to the nieces, which can't be right.<br /><br />Incidentally, I have a couple of pairs of earrings that were my grandmother's, which I rarely wear, but I am reminded of her more when I look at the shrub with blue flowers in my back garden, which came from her garden. And I have a rug, a piano stool, and two pictures created by my mother which give me much more pleasure than the pair of jade earrings in my jewellery box. Mementos do not need to have a cash value. <br /><br />Either way, I recommend you buy your husband's niece that gold bangle *now*, so you can tell her how much she means to you and see her smile.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com