That is trashy! Again with the entitlement mentality... “but I want a complete SET not just one glass”. I can actually top this story: my icky SIL actually took about 95% of the flowers set out by my Mother’s casket. She just kept on taking them, walking out to her car and sticking them in the trunk/backseat/wherever they could fit . She actually said, “I like flowers and everyone knows that... including my MIL”. (not that you have to guess but who do you think she voted for?)
I can top that. One of my older relatives hired a moving van to clean out the family home when her mom died. While everyone was at the funeral service. Wake was at another relatives house. When the rest of the family met at their mom’s house the next day to begin dividing stuff up it was empty! Older relative tried to convince everyone they’d been ROBBED. Until a neighbor happened to walk over to express condolences and mentioned the United Van Lines truck. Older relative clammed up and walked out.
I was a kid and at school that day. My mom refused to believe said relative would do something like that. About 3m later I was selling something for a band trip and rang the relatives doorbell. When she answered the door her entire living and dining room was full of...you guessed it..united van lines moving boxes. Stacked to the ceiling. With a tiny little walk path in between. As far as the eye could see there were boxes stacked to the ceiling. And furniture stacked on furniture covered with sheets. Her kids and grandkids visited her when the school year let out and (it’s a small town) neighbors informed us they all arrived with moving vans.
She’d already convinced her mother to give her power of attorney and managed to get all the money too. Needless to say none of her siblings spoke to her again or even went to her funeral. She had 7 siblings and none of them got even so much as a doily. Even things they’d given to their mom. Yes, there was a will. No, she wasn’t the only one mentioned. The will specifically directed the executor (local lawyer) to return to kids what they’d bought (dishwasher to X, dryer to Y, etc). Kind of hard to do that when the house had been emptied.
OMG!