08-09-2019, 05:52 PM
GeneL, thanks for the update and more in-depth background. I really hope things improve for you.
Family members can be strange and frustrating. I suspect it would take a long conversation between a good psychologist and the daughter to really figure things out, assuming she would be willing to let the psychologist talk to a third party afterwards. One guess is her feelings for her father really complicates things.
Almost seven years later I still don't fully understand why my brother has been such a butthead as executor of my parents estate. It's stuck at about 99.2% complete. In hindsight, I should have started succession of executors after the first six months of almost no progress. It took me about that long to figure out that mom had been playing us off against each other for at least two years. I am not sure, she might have only been doing it subconsciously. When I tried to bring it up, my brother did not seem interesting in talking about it. Maybe still some residual feelings...
My experience with consignment stores is the money trickles in unless there are some really exceptional pieces that be sold quickly... and then the money trickles in. I think the issue with bone china dropping in value is that so many people have inherited it, and either already started their own collection or don't have a family life where it would fit in. (something else to blame on millennials... :oldfogey:
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Family members can be strange and frustrating. I suspect it would take a long conversation between a good psychologist and the daughter to really figure things out, assuming she would be willing to let the psychologist talk to a third party afterwards. One guess is her feelings for her father really complicates things.
Almost seven years later I still don't fully understand why my brother has been such a butthead as executor of my parents estate. It's stuck at about 99.2% complete. In hindsight, I should have started succession of executors after the first six months of almost no progress. It took me about that long to figure out that mom had been playing us off against each other for at least two years. I am not sure, she might have only been doing it subconsciously. When I tried to bring it up, my brother did not seem interesting in talking about it. Maybe still some residual feelings...
My experience with consignment stores is the money trickles in unless there are some really exceptional pieces that be sold quickly... and then the money trickles in. I think the issue with bone china dropping in value is that so many people have inherited it, and either already started their own collection or don't have a family life where it would fit in. (something else to blame on millennials... :oldfogey:
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