Originally Posted by
KenmoreRulesAll
...As you can probably tell, I've never quite forgiven him. Sorry to have vented. I'm still trying to figure out why I'm collecting these machines.
Awesome story! Thanks for sharing that.
Oh what machines those must have been...
I am kinda in the same boat, my uncle saw himself as a "modern" kind of person so when faced with a choice of rebuilding/restoring my grandparents 100+ year old house or building new on the property, he talked my Granddad into signing the property over, used his credit to finance building a new house, then burned down the old one (after taking every old thing to the dump)... never quite found my way to acceptance of that.
It is interesting to note the number of folks here who have said that a relative tossed a family heirloom and triggered the collection bug, or a variant of that.