Have you dealt with a greedy fam member after a death?
I came across this pic I took for my Aunt through marriage to let her know she wasn’t getting my painting 😠
Soon as she heard someone said it was worth a serious amount of money, she lost it saying it was promised to her daughter 😒 Growing up I just loved this painting. It’s like a piece of my childhood and it was my Gram’s who promised it to me when I was that young. She promised my cousin the other one that she loved.
It’s just sickening that she was ready to take it only b/c she thought it was worth money. After I sent her my pic my cousin told her, “no it’s hers, Gram promised her that one.”
My cousin took hers off my Gram’s wall when she was still in her nursing home room. I only had mine many years before b/c she didn’t have a place to hang it given its size. My Gram announced at that Thanksgiving that a nice stranger asked her for her painting and she gave it to her. Dementia.. but we didn’t know it yet and were all losing it 🤣
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Even worse, a sister of mine gave away everything to strangers that she didn’t want. Now if that isn’t hateful & spiteful I don’t know what is. She got caught giving things to nursing home employees which was likely illegal for them to take that stuff.
@cherokeepattiThat’s horrible. My older cousin did that when my Aunt(diff one) went into a care center knowing she’d not be living alone anymore. I asked him to save me something to remind me of her and he didn’t save anything for anyone. When my Aunt started barely talking she grabbed my wrist and was saying, “Where’s my stuff?! Find my stuff!” 🥺 She used to collect porcelain dolls that were very expensive and she had specific ones for certain people that she wanted to have if something ever happened to her. My cousin put them all in storage and they were mostly broken when he passed shortly after. I was supposed to handle her health and everything else, but her son decided to come back into her life after she had a stroke. He did everything the opposite of what she wanted.
@Adrift yes I heard that. And you know what? When I was diagnosed with cancer in 2023 I made up my mind not to let her or my other sister know about it. After my hair fell out and I had to wear hats etc. I drove to the next city to shop, or ordered groceries online and picked them up or had them delivered. That’s how strong I feel about them knowing, and to prevent them from coming around to exploit me or anyone else to get what they want from anything I’ve left behind. They both can make any bad situation worse.
