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This was my mom's grandmother clock, which I inherited and brought to our house last January. This clock was my mother's favorite thing. She bought it in 1967.  I have it in our keeping room, which is next to our kitchen. 

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@gidgetgh wrote:

This was my mom's grandmother clock, which I inherited and brought to our house last January. This clock was my mother's favorite thing. She bought it in 1967.  I have it in our keeping room, which is next to our kitchen. 

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@gidgetgh

I love that you cherish your mother's clock! My mom has a very unique grandfather clock that my dad bought for her back in the 70's. It will be mine someday, but honestly, I dread the day I see it in my home, as it will mean my mom is gone. I prefer to enjoy it at her house for now.

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@gidgetgh wrote:

This was my mom's grandmother clock, which I inherited and brought to our house last January. This clock was my mother's favorite thing. She bought it in 1967.  I have it in our keeping room, which is next to our kitchen. 

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@gidgetgh

I love that you cherish your mother's clock! My mom has a very unique grandfather clock that my dad bought for her back in the 70's. It will be mine someday, but honestly, I dread the day I see it in my home, as it will mean my mom is gone. I prefer to enjoy it at her house for now.

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@Mominohio- it was an emotional day last January when the movers brought this clock and my mom's dining room furniture to our house.  I cried like a baby when they got here. 

First, because they were no longer at my parents house.  My mom passed away in 2011 and my dad had moved to assisted living. It was a major life change and it was hard. 

Second, because I was so honored to receive the furniture into our home and my mother would have been so pleased. I promised her years ago that they'd always have a home with me. I felt like I'd fulfilled my promise. 

And third, though it was emotional to move them from my parents house, I was glad and relieved to get them here. This will sound ridiculous, but I didn't want the pieces to be lonely at an almost empty, soon to be sold house. It's like I wanted the pieces to know that they were loved and wanted. 

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@gidgetgh wrote:

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@Mominohio wrote:

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@gidgetgh wrote:

This was my mom's grandmother clock, which I inherited and brought to our house last January. This clock was my mother's favorite thing. She bought it in 1967.  I have it in our keeping room, which is next to our kitchen. 

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@gidgetgh

I love that you cherish your mother's clock! My mom has a very unique grandfather clock that my dad bought for her back in the 70's. It will be mine someday, but honestly, I dread the day I see it in my home, as it will mean my mom is gone. I prefer to enjoy it at her house for now.

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@Mominohio- it was an emotional day last January when the movers brought this clock and my mom's dining room furniture to our house.  I cried like a baby when they got here. 

First, because they were no longer at my parents house.  My mom passed away in 2011 and my dad had moved to assisted living. It was a major life change and it was hard. 

Second, because I was so honored to receive the furniture into our home and my mother would have been so pleased. I promised her years ago that they'd always have a home with me. I felt like I'd fulfilled my promise. 

And third, though it was emotional to move them from my parents house, I was glad and relieved to get them here. This will sound ridiculous, but I didn't want the pieces to be lonely at an almost empty, soon to be sold house. It's like I wanted the pieces to know that they were loved and wanted. 

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@gidgetgh

Doesn't sound ridiculous at all. I had a great aunt and uncle pass away just weeks apart a couple of years ago. their son was ill at their passing , but didn't know it, and he too passed away shortly after they did. That left two daughters (my cousins)neither having had children. 

My aunt and uncle had a house full of antique furniture handed down from both of their families. My cousins only wanted a few things each, and they were generous enough to let me have some things I had always admired. Nothing is worth any money really, but so sentimental to come down to now the 5th generation for some pieces. 

There was one piece that I didn't ask for, that I really wanted, because I assumed someone (grandchildren especially) would want it. It was a wooden trunk that my great great grandmother's family brought to Ohio in a covered wagon over the mountains in PA. Well it went to auction and I went to the auction to buy it.

I did get that piece, but I was near tears watching their dining room set sell. Again, not terribly expensive, but they had it way before I was born, we had many Thanksgivings and many anniversary and birthday celebrations around that table. It seated at least 6 generations of the family around it for meals at different times, and it was sad to see it 'abandonded' if you will.

There was also a set of those old metal lawn chairs (big heavy ones from the 40's or 50's) that had been my great grandparents. I only had so much room in the car to haul things, and I didn't bid on them because it was so far from home. It still haunts me that those chairs went to 'strangers', and I regret not buying them and making an extra 70 miles one way trip just to bring them home. 

I can totally relate to your feelings that day, when those pieces came into your home. It is a combination of sadness, honor, sweet memories, a little painful. I know over time they will bring even more happiness as you continue to make memories around them. 

Things like this become a part of the fabric of our lives (if we let them, I know many people have no attachment to 'things' like this, but I don't apologize one bit for loving them like I do!!). Enjoy them, and know you aren't crazy about those feelings!

[151949]

Some very pretty clocks here. I can't post a picture here of this but my DH found  online a German beer company with our last name -- ______ beer company. So he wrote to the owner to try to find out if they are related and they are distantly related and both were joyed to find each other. Anyway , the owner of the company sent him a kitchen clock that has the company logo on it. It is a real conversation starter.