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Boomers spent their lives accumulating stuff. Now their kids are stuck with it.
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She ran this elaborate trade. She'd tell my mother she was giving them to my nephew or to some other relative, then I would check up with them and ask them how the toy was and they'd say what toy.
I don't know whether they ended up in a thrift shop or some kind of trade-up rubber band for a car kind of thing.
She showed up this one time with her trunk absolutely full of just random garbage toys, Tell me to pick whatever I wanted for my birthday. I was around 16 I was like no no I'm good I'll take a hug that's all I need. You could see she was highly disappointed.
I was only marginally disappointed that none of my kids ended up with any of my toys but in the long run it's not really that big of a deal. Those things all meant things to me, They likely never would have meant anything to my kids.
I dunno man, that's pretty weird.
That side of the family was all pretty weird. There's drug addiction, violence, mystery. I have no idea how my grandfather was on that side and no one would ever talk about it which makes me think it was probably something pretty bad.