I've learned that the younger generation isn't as appreciative of handmade stuff and don't seem to want to have anything around. I find this sad. I love the reminders I have in my house of my parents and grandparents. Sometimes I just look at them and touch them and think that someone I was related to used these things 100 years before I was born. It makes me feel good.
hen my husband had to move his dad and stepmom into assisted living, I was helping him clean out their house and found a whole box of studio pics of his half sis who is almost 20 years younger than he is and her mom. I put them in a box and sat it in the center of the living room for her. I showed my husband where it was. I was thinking that his sis might like them. They were really nice pics. Nope. When she came to look at the stuff and see what she wanted, she didn't take even one. I found that kind of sad, but I guess it's just a difference in generations. IDK
b.zang, I'm so sorry for your loss. It's never easy to lose your partner of many years. I wish you well.