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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;bluumz, post: 361667, member: 649&quot;]To go off on a bit of a tangent here...</p><p>I found an old army trunk at a thrift store and bought it for my teen son to store stuff in. The name of the original owner is emblazoned on it and I started to feel badly... that I should try to return the trunk to a family member. Within an hour of researching, I found reliable email info for the man&#039;s eldest son.</p><p>I emailed the son and he seemed very interested in getting his father&#039;s trunk (no explanation of how it ended up at a thrift store). Unfortunately, he&#039;d moved several states away and claimed to no longer have any family/friends in my area to pick it up (despite having been raised here along with two siblings). He wanted me to ship this huge/heavy trunk to him, stating he&#039;d pay me back when he received it.</p><p>We reached an impasse when I declined to spend $50+ to ship the trunk to a stranger without any guarantee that I&#039;d be reimbursed. After telling him this (in a nice way), he said he&#039;d &quot;think about what to do&quot; but I haven&#039;t heard from him since. That was six months ago.</p><p>My son stores all his video games/controllers in it in his basement man cave. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>So... between that story and another where the offspring knowingly sold their mother&#039;s 1950s travel diary at her estate sale when she passed, and yet another story where a son knowingly sold the 1940s love notes between his mother/father from when they were dating (these things have all acquired an appreciative home with me, a stranger), I&#039;ve realized that some people just aren&#039;t very sentimental. That&#039;s not a <i>bad </i>thing... just different than me, I suppose. I wouldn&#039;t have given up my father&#039;s trunk, or my mother&#039;s diary, or my parents love notes for any amount of $$. But if one is storage deficient, one may have to make some tough choices.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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