My mother died when I was 2 1/2. My sister was 6 weeks old. Everything went to my Dad and maternal grandmother. When my Grandmother died, my aunt and uncle took everything, including my mother’s things set aside for myself and my sister.
My dad remarried and had two more daughters. When he passes, I’m pretty sure every thing he has that is our mothers will go to our half sisters. My dad has never given us anything of our mothers and I’m in my early 50’s now.
Greed is a terrible thing, but has it’s own “rewards”, if you will. My uncle committed suicide and my aunt ended up in a mental ward. I have to remember, everyone else has her things. I have her spirit. Things are only things.
That’s a shame about your mom. But people crazy enough to steal from kids are crazy. No doubt.
I don’t have anything anyone would really want so I’m fairly immune to this behavior.
I’ve got another one. Older relative had 2 daughters. One who lived locally and one who lived about a day away. Older relative had a stroke serious enough that the doctors called the family in. Out of town daughter stayed at the family home with her daughters and took turns with her sister sitting with their dad at the hospital.
Meanwhile, out of town’s daughters were pillaging the family home, with their mothers approval. One daughter worked for UPS and was seen delivering carload after carload of boxes to the local UPS shipper. Cleaned out all the silver, depression glass, handmade quilts and the attic and stuff like that. See, it was the first time they’d visited that their grandfather hadn’t been home. He never allowed them into the attic because ‘that’s your grandmothers stuff’. And they’d been itching to get up there for years. Well, they did.
The old guy managed to pull through in spite of the medical prognosis and when they brought him home he noticed his daddy’s silver watch was missing...and the ____ hit the fan in that family. In town sister hasn’t really spoken to the out of town sister or her daughters in about 15 years now. I can’t blame her. They couldn’t even wait for the body to get cold before they cleaned him out. When he did die and his banking information was available to the rest of the heirs it became obvious that he’d been sending out of town daughter THOUSANDS of dollars every year for her ‘upkeep’. Bought her cars, bought her daughters cars, paid their phone bills, department store CC bills and more. Because she ‘needed it’ more than the other daughter. And this is how they paid him back...
And, they’re all crazy. Both daughters are homewreckers. One of them specifically preys on married men for the ‘challenge’ of things. The other takes handfuls of psych meds. The mom has to, if she can, imagine how it’ll be when she becomes ill and old. Those kids’ll pull the plug on her so fast it’ll make her head spin. She’ll be lucky to be in a home where they even change the residents adult diapers.
The rest of us want to be flies on the wall in that house when it’s the two daughters fighting over stuff. THAT would be entertainment! Cage match!!
She must have been blessed with a wonderful spirit.